Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-12
AGAIN FROM TIE SOUTH
SNOW STORM, BEGUN IN MIssIs-
s1PPI, REACHES wAsHsINeToN.
Accidents and One Fatality Recorded as
Result of Recent Visitation
Appeal to Charitable.

Another southern snowstorm reached
Washington this forenoon. Its birthplace
was away down south in Governor varda-
mans state, Mississippi. the weather off,
Gals stated, and a government employee re-
marked facetiously that the frigid arrival
no doubt illustrated the frosty feeling of
the governor toward the republican adj
ministration.
YES" remarked another, "all three Of
the recent storms of sleet and snow have
come from Dixie-one from Alabama. an
other from Arkansas and the present one
from Mississippi. 1t looks as though the
south was sending these frosts northward
to get even with that section for the recent
political landslide
Professor Garriott of the weather bu-
reau stated to a Star reporter today that
the present snowfall Is quite general, and
will be heavier through the Ohio valley,
the lower lake region and the middle At
lantic coast states than In the immediate
locality of Washington. 1t is believed the
fall of snow hereabOuts Will continue until
tomorrow morning. In Its wake will be
colder weather.
There will be a heavier snowfall this
evening in New York and the New Eng
land states. The last two southern snow
storms have aimed straight at New Eng
land and disappeared OH that coast on the
bosom of the Atlantic ocean.
Passed to Northeast.
The snowstorm which prevailed in Wash
ington and vicinity Saturday passed away
to the nortkeastward Saturday night, as
forecasted In The Star, and later disap-
peared Off the New England coast. The
storm left in it's wake colder weather, some
damage to electric light, telephone and
telegraph wires, a number of accidents to
md op,fv,o al nvNn coli fI,n
death of Thomas Ransom colored, en-
ployed at 174O N street northwest, who died
from over-exertion resulting in heart fail
ure while he was engaged in shoveling
snow from the sidewalk.
The blizzard-like conditions which pre-
vailed resulted in great suffering among
the poor. This was particularly true CT
those sections Of Southwest and Southea st
washington which are largely populated
by the poorer classes of white and cOlored
people. The dump dggers, who exc out a
bare existence by delving into the rubbish
heaps on the city's dumps and extracting
therefrom bits of iron and other metals.
rags and various articles which are sold
to the junk dealers, found their bread
winning employment gone.
Their fields of labor and revenue on the
outskirts of the city were covered by a
blanket of snow several inches in depth
and as result the diggers, to whom the
flying snow is an evil oYfpj41und them
selves In many instances without Me nces-
safy money 10 pure base food or fuel
OF Small Effect.
The trouble caused tho railway electric
light, telephone and telegraph companies
was only slight and was soon overcome,
and the steam railroad trains as rule
came and departed on Tina
Bartholomew Bratton, sergeant of the
Attn Field Battery at Fort Myer, and John
Mack, member of tie I'd Battalion of
United States Engineers, stationed at
washington barracks, met with a serious
accident during the army-navy foot ball
game saturday afternoon. The men collid-
ed after slipping in the snow. during a
mass play, and Mack suffered conclusion of
the brain, it is stated, while Bratton Ina d
his shoulder wrenched
Many poor men and boys regarded the
snowfall as a sort of blessing, as it gave
Them employment shoveling the white coat
ing from the sidewalks of Washington
homes. e-1s wa
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