Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-13
BLIZZARD WEATHER
The Terrible Storm Now
Raging 6 in Washington
THIRTY INCHESOF SNOW FALLEN
Surpasses Any Former Storm
Known Here.
LITTLE STREET CAR TRAFFIC
All the Railroad Trains Many Hours
Delayed.
LITTLE STREET CAR TRAFFIC
All the Railroad Trains Many Hours
SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED

Through a vale of snow, whirling about
at the rate of thirty-six miles an hour,
a prediction comes from the weather bu-
reau. It is the single CLEAN of hope held
out to snow-bound Washington and it fore
tells fair weather. Unless all indications
fail the clouds will break away tonight and
for the first time since Saturday afternoon
there will be cessation of precipitation in
the form OF snow. The thermometer, it is
stated. will again reach down to the zero
point the cold continuing throughout to-
morrow.
A significant feature of the cold weather
IS a phenomenal rise reported this morning
in the west, At Miles, Mon, the mercury
has jumped upward CT degrees in the last
twenty-four hours, being now away above
zero and warmer than the east. This very
decided warm wave is travelling eastward
and Will probably be felt in this section
Wednesday or Thursday. The thaw which
will surely set in at that time is attracting
the attention of the authorities and caus-
ing no little apprehension.
The capital city of the nation is today a
dreary, desolate waste of snow. Business
is suspended to all purposes, and this usu-
ally busting, Up-to-date national metropolis
is d city dead. The street cars. after brave
compelled TO give up the futile efforts
shortly before noon. The drifting snow
piled high on the tracks, and all the snow
ploughs available could not keep the right
of-way clear. A detected crowd of motor
men and conductors formed in procession
ana marched up the tracks to the various
stations where they have to report.
Thirty inches of snow on the level where
the wind does not strike is the record
breaking depth registered in Washington.
Sixteen inches of this total has fallen since
Saturday afternoon. the precipitation being
continuous since that time. gale from
the northwest, which at II O'Clock this
morning reached a velocity of thirty-six
miles an hour. has blown the dry snow into
drifts in many places six or eight feet in
Sight- The streets are a veritable sea OF
lite, the snow drifts resembling the ocean
waves A sand storm In the Sahara does
not compare with tire conditions prevail
ing in Washington today. The snow. fine
and dry, IS caught up by the raging winds
and hurled through space, making 1t i'm
possible for one to see more than few
feet ahead. The cold wind bites bitterly
and the snow stings severely, making life
out Of doors almost unbearabIe.
Remarkable Scene
The scene presented IN every quarter of
Washington this morning was perhaps the
most remarkable ever witnessed here. The
present blizzard surpasses in severity that
OF 1883, which has been the criterion of all
storms up to the present time In depth Of
snowfall. in minimum temperatures and in
all stormy conditions known to humanity
has the present 'unpleasantness' outstrip-
Ped all competitors. Looking out of the
WINDOW this morning Washingtonians be-