The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-13
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Floods and
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snowstorm which threatens to do much
damage started at o'clock this morn
ing, and at o'clock two inches had
fallen. The snow was wet and heavy
and caused much Inconvenience and
considerable delay to traffic on elevated
and surface lines. ION the river the
weather was so thick that ferryboats
speed. The snow was accompanied
by moderate wind. The thermometer
stood at % degrees at a. m.
| Telegraphic service was further de-
moralized by the storm. The Western
Union Company lost twenty out of
thirty wires between New York and
| Philadelphia, and ten wires south of
Philadelphia, between 9 and IL O'Clock
The company reported that il was los
ing wires in all directions on account
of the heavy snow which in some local
tiles was followed by sleet. Between
Easton and Williamsport. Pa, twenty
miles OF Western Union poles are
down. Up to 1880 there was no sign
of Improvement in the weather. the
snow continuing to fall heavily
The train service on the New York
Central Railroad. which was disorgan-
ICED by the floods, was further impeded
by the snow. The trains from the
west and north are in bad shape No
attempt was made to run the Adiron-
dack express. OF the Chicago express,
due at 10 a. m, no report had been
received up to II o'clock. II was STALL
ed somewhere along the line. with no
means Of reporting its whereabouts or
condition.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, March s.
The central and western portions of
the State are covered this morning
with a heavy snowfall. 1t is still
showing. If the snow should melt
quickly there would be cause for alarm
among residents of the lowlands in
the Ohio Valley.
HUNTINGTON. W. Va, March g.
a snowstorm has been raging in south
ern West Virginia for twenty hours.
In the Ohio Valley snow is fourteen
inches deep. In the mountainous dis
tricts il is twenty TO thirty inches. All
street car traffic is suspended in Ohio
river towns. Railway traffic is greatly
impeded.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-A COM
bined storm of wind, snow and sleet
prevailed here last night and part OF
today, and threatened for a time to
assume serious proportions. over an
inch OF snow and rain was precipitat-
ed. The forecast officials say that the
storm is not sufficient to bring the Po-
tomac again to the flood level.
1ofShs IA. 81 lie heaviest
snowstorm Of the season set in here
last night, and the ground is now COW
cred to n depth of twelve inches. All
trains on the Frederick division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad have been an
nulled. Two trains were stalled on the
Columbia bridge this morning: Be
tween Hanover. Pa, and Frederick.
Md. the entire road is practically
drifted shut.
PITTSBURG. Pa. March 5-The
heaviest snowstorm of the winter set
in about midnight. and at noon today it
is still showing. The snow is now
seven inches deep. and the indications
are for continued snow today and to-
morrow. Street car traffic is almost at
a standstill in both Pittsburg and AL
while the cars to and from
the suburbs are making but few trips.
The railroads. are also suffering to
some extent. The local telephone wires
are in bad shape.
CHICAGO. Feb. 2S-Torrential rains.
washouts, tornadoes in the southeast:
floods. breaking of dams and ice gorges
in Pennsylvania; copious and devastat-
ing rains in the Middle Atlantic States:
snow billiards. in Minnesota and the
Dakotas. were the reports that came
in over the crippled telegraph lines.
Reports of death and disaster from the
South are widespread.
TELLURIDE, Col. Feb. 2S.-Four-
teen dead; as many more injured, and
a score missing. is the result of a Sc
ries of snowslides near here.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 2S.-Yesterdays
storm spread disaster through Georgia.
Tennessee. Virginia, North
and South Carolina and Florida. No
trains have passed through on the Sea-
board north for Atlanta in twenty-four
hours. Several people We're killed in
a cyclone. Railroad tracks at Jackson |
are five feet under water.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2-This |
city was practically cut off from the |
rest OF the world last night, the storm !
playing havoc with telegraph and tele- |
phone wires. |
PATTERSON, y. J.. March 2-This |
city. recently swept by fire, is over
rhelmed by flood. Hundreds of fami- !
lies have been made homeless by the |
overflow of the Passaic. The city is /
many feet under water. and one life |
Is thus far lost.
ALLEGHENY. Pa. March 2-The |
Hood waters have receded after sub