Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-02-27
TIED Up
BY THE SNOW
Many Buildings Fall Under The Enormous
Weight of Snow

The great snow storm of Friday which
created wholesale havoc throughout the
state, blocking thOroughfares of travel,
| leveling telephone and telegraph wires
and thus cutting off communication be-
tween cities and towns did not wholly
give Danville the go-by, although, as
usual, it escaped the worst features of
| the storm.
After the snow here attained some
| depth it turned to rain, while elsewhere
| it continued to snow. Thus while the
| greatest depth in Danville was from IA
to 16 inches in other localities as near as
Waskngtonville the snow lay 2G inches
upon the level, rendering the roads prac-
tically impossible and isolating farms
and villages.
The snow here was bad enough and
served to remind one of the great biz
zard of So Nearly the consistency of
slush it dressed the trees in foliage of
white; it lay in the streets in immense
mounds and was piled high upon the
roofs while the buildings groaned under
! the weight.
The snow was a heavy tax upon the
awnings on Mill street and these at two
points gave way-at Charles Haneys
barber shop and at Nelson Woods shoe
store. The old car shop belonging to
Grove furnace at this end of the tar
pavement fell i'll a pile of ruins, taking
with it the large bill boards belonging
there. A portion of the sheds of A. {.
Amesbury's coal yard as well as the
sheds Of SheppersOn's coal yard gave
way beneath the strain and fell. Dur
ing Saturday night the chimney on the
east side of Trinity VI. f. church gave
way before the heavy pressure Of snow
sliding down the roof and mass of
brick and mortar fell to the side
walk below. Many other roofs about
town were on the verge of succumbing
but were saved by shoveling off the
snow.
Throughout the county where the
snow varied from two feet to % inches,
in depth the loss is heavy. The large
barn on the Frazier farm this side of
Washingtonville now owned by George
Bogert was completely demolished. Just
before daylight Saturday morning with
~, Col -, H.,
four walls unable to resist the pressure
fell outward, the whole barn in a few
seconds of time being reduced to pile
of ruins Mr. Bogert loses a quantity
of grain. buggy and a heavy wagon
which were housed in the barn.
Among other structures demolished
by the snow were the building belonging
to Nowrer & Son at Strawberry Ridge
used for housing Champion binders and
farming implements i'll general; hay
shed on the farm of David Watts mile
north of Washingtonville; barn in
Washingtonville belonging to William
Pollock and a straw shed on one of John
R. Bennett's 5 farms near by. There was
in manner no travel throughout the
northern part of the county yesterday
and the roads We're practically un-
broken.
A sled load of young people from this
city who were entertained by Edward
Hoffman near Alex Billmeyer's farm,
Friday night, were snow bound and did
not get home until Saturday night. They
started for Danville about two O'Clock
Saturday morning. The two horses were
unable to drag the sled through the
deep snow which, heavy and wet, form
ed big balls before the runners and
made it difficult for the horses to walk.
They got as far as the Frazier farm
when the horses gave out. The party
called up MIR. Bogert who kindly fur
nished two horses which were hitched
to the end of the tongue and thus the
four horses managed to drag the sled
back to Washingtonville, where the
party took lodging at Fanny Heddens
hotel
The sled and team belonged to Livery
man Welliver of this city, who III re-
sponse to telephone message about 8
o'clock Saturday morning started for
Washingtonville with extra horses to
assist in bringing the party home. 1t
required three hours for him to make
the trip over the unbroken roads and he
came very near not getting to Washing
tonville at all. 1t was p. m. before he
got back to Danville with the sled.