San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-14
THE SNOWSTORM.
SAN ANTONIO RIGHT IN IT WITH
NORTHERN CITIES.
Will Take Back Seat With None
of Them When it Comes to
Politics, Improvements, Re
lgion and Snow.

Cdu AuIOulO Is luu66u CON6TSu
with a white mantle Of purity to-
day, and everybody was out snow
balling everybody else, all day.
Snow began falling last night at
$3.50 and continued all night, and
at intervals all Of this morning.
\ great deal Of it melted as it fell,
but enough covered the level places
to register 4 and 2-l00 inches, the
amount as measured by the United
States weather bureau station in
this city. The lowest temperature
last night was % degrees above
zero.
Telegraphic reports say snow
fell generally over Texas. AT Abb
lene 4 inches We're measured; at
Amarillo 81 inches; Corpus Christi
2inches and still showing; Calves
ton II inches; New Orleans traces !;
Palestine . inches; Santa Fe,
New Mexico, nearly inches.
The amount of water contained
in our four inches of snow will be a
little over 40-lOO of an inch.
The blackSmiths were soon busy
on opening their shops this morn
ing, in making sleighs for GUS
toners, and soon after our
streets were musical with the
merry jingle Of sleigh bells, parties
of ladies and gentlemen taking ad-
vantage Of the unusual privilege OF
sleigh ride in the sunny south.
Among those having sleighs were
J. I. Burnett, Sam Bennett, RELY
Gordon, Thad Bell, Lovelady, w.
&. Sullivan and j. r. Hooper.
The snowfall stopped street car
traffic about II o'clock last night,
on all lines, and gangs Of men had
to get out early today on the Citi-
zens' line to clear the tracks. This
line got cars running by nine
o'clock. The San Antonio line did
not move car until III o'clock and
then got out one on the Green
and one on the Red lines. West
End was not running at all, and
the line to Alamo Heig hts was in
the same fix.
This was the heaviest snowfall
since 1867, in which year we had
nearly the same amount.
Mr.. NJ. ID. Monserrate, general
manager Of the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass, received the follow
ing kilograms from agents along
his line this morning:
BoERNE, Tex, Feb. IA Began
showing last night about $3.50
O'clock. Showed all night and still
showing. Snow now is sixteen
inches deep.
WARING, Tex, Feb. 14.-Snow
now eight inches deep and still
showing.
YOAKUM, Texas, Feb. 14-Six
inches snow on level and two feet
in drifts. Still showing.
A report received at the South
ern Pacific dispatchcrs' office states
that snow is twelve inches thick on
the ground at Houston. The snow
is all the way from six inches to
two feet deep between Del Rio and
FL PaSO.
SNOWFLAKES.
One man peltcd, responded with
four-foOt pieces of gas pipe this
morning. One piece struck a little
boy.
DR.. Thompson came down this
morning with plug hat. oh, but
he caught snowsballs with it!
Several northern boys went out
early this morning for an old fash
toned rabbit hunt in the snow.
Magnolias covered with snow in
the Sunny South answers the old
question: GLOW long can a snow
ball live in" Bob Ingersoll's future
residence.
One little miss of three summers
on being shown the snow on the
ground said, 81 know it's snow,
just like on the Christmas cards"
Another precocious child asked
her mother who spilled all the
sugar.
Everybody was snowballed to-
day.
Callaghanites got it on all sides,
even from their friends.
Miss Josephine Steffian received
a scalp wound.
A colored man cut his arm in a
glass pane.
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