The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-27
STORM GENERAL.
Rain and Sleet Follow Snow in
New York.
Traffic and Telegraphic Com
munciation Greatly Impeded.
SLIPPERY CAR RAILS.
Delay All Trains From the West
and North.
SLIPPERY CAR RAILS.
Hundreds of Theater Goers
Compelled to Walk Home.

| New York, Dec. 27.-Rain and Sleet
with a rising temperature. following the
recent heavy snow storms have greatly
impeded traffic in and about New York.
Telegraphic communication has been
considerably handicapped and nearly all
through trains from the west and north
are delayed owing to slippery rails.
| In the city the rain and Sleet which
froze as soon as it struck the ground
made walking during the night hazard
Gus and wherever there was a grade on
the surface roads there was great trou-
BILE.
Brooklyn appeared to suffer more
than Manhattan. There the trolley lines
were in trouble, both overhead and
underground. Hundreds of persons who
had attended Manhattan theaters were
very late in reaching their homes after
the performances. At times the entire
road system of the borough was prac-
tically tied up. The snowfall of Sunday
amounted to five inches. and before the
rain and sleet began last night the
bureau had succeeded in getting to-
gether only 5000 men and 400 carts, so
that little was done toward clearing the
streets.
New York, Dec. 27.-Rain and sleet,
following the heavy snow storm, have
played havoc with transportation facill-
ties and the telegraph service.
Failing on top of the snow covered
pavementS and sidewalks the rain has
formed a hard crust of ice, and New
York today was like a great skating
pond. The rails of the surface cars and
elevated trains were SO slippery that no
effort was made to keep anything like
schedule time The suburban trolley lines
tr1e
reported late on every line. How badly
the telegraph and telephone wires have
ben crippled co. not be estimated
early today. All through the east and
| in Pennsylvania, the wires are coated
with ice and the extra weight has
| broken many of them.
In addition to the delay caused by
the sleet the congested traffic of the
upper harbor and the North and East
rivers, crowded with ferry boats, was
hampered by a fog so dense that it
was still almost dark at 1880 a. M, and
ferry boats bringing the thousands of
people employed in this city from Jer-
sey City and Brooklyn, poked their
way slowly from slip to slip in con-
slant danger of collision. No serious
accidents were reported.
Covers Mississippi Valley.
| Washington, Dec. 27.-Reports to
storm that reached the oregon coast
Saturday morning moved southeast
ward to the Texas coast, where it was
| central Monday morning and thence
rtheastward into the middle MissiS-
slppi valley. In the last "a hours it
has increased greatly in intensity and
forms today the most severe wind and
rain storm of the season throughout
the middle and lower Mississippi val
lev Tennessee and the east Gulf states.
Heavy downpours of rain accom-
panied by thunder storms and high
shifting winds have occurred in the
lower Mississippi valley, Tennessee
and the lower Ohio valley and rain,
sleet and snow in the upper middle
portions of the Mississippi valley and
the west portiOn-of the lake region.
Rain, snow or sleet has fallen at prac-
tically every station west of the Mis-
sissippi, While a cold wave prevails be-
tween the Mississippi and the Rocky
mountains. The Mississippi valley dis
turbance will move northeastward
during the next 6 hours.
Wind 40 Miles an Hour.
La Crosse, Wis, Dec. PA blizzard
prevails in Wisconsin today. At Su-
perior the wind reached velocity of
40 miles an hour Traffic is delayed.
Snow in Illinois.
Bloomington, Ill, Dec. 27.-The
first severe snow storm of the winter
ragged in central Illinois today follow
mig heavy rain OF two days
Blizzard in Minnesota.
st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 27.-This part
of the state is in the grip of a blizzard
and the snow piling in drifts is delay
ing trains. Street car traffic is badly
handicapped.
The storm extends over the entire
northwest and all trains are more or
less late today. The coast lines were
hard hit. One Great Northern train
due Monday afternoon was reported
90 hours late. The Northern Pacific
coast train was reported almost six
hours late.
Rain in the South.
Louisville, KY, Dec. 27.-The south
has received during the last SO hours
months. In the territory from the
Ohio river to the Gulf and from Texas
over into Georgia the springlike
weather of the last few days has been
broken by heavy rains, followed by
high winds. In several places a cold
wave has sent the mercury scurrying
to the bulb, a fall of degrees in one
hour being recorded at Nashville At
Louisville there was a rainfall of two
inches. Mountain streams are filling
up and crops will be greatly benefited.
A boating stage in the Ohio seems as
sured and many places suffering from
a shortage of coal will soon have their
wants supplied.
Rain Starts a Thaw
Philadelphia. Dec. 27.-Traffc of
every sort in this city and vicinity was
badly hampered during the early
hours today by dense fog. Rain fell
during the night. A heavy thaw re-
suited and this, following the two DAYS
and a half of snowfall, converted the
streets into rivulets. Train service was
irregular.