The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-07
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Weather of Saturday and Sui1-
day About Roughest iii iais
VI Many Years. q
GREAT RANGE Of j MERCURY !! !: / I: i ~
TWO Inches Of Ice Covered the
Earth Traffic Retarded.
Streets Now Slushy. 4 &,

# Richmond caught the outer edge OF q
Southern storm&of rain, snow and Ssleetl
which swept the country from near the
cuff coast to5a point north Of the Viz
ginia line. All day Sunday II, this SEQ
stion d .down-pours OF rain which froze into
tsleet came cutting down, rafting at win =.
dows and upon the roofs and pilng up
I In the tstreets and everywhere to a depth;
Of moro than two inches. The tempe ra :,
$ture was not very low, but sufficiently.
to freeze tho rain drops az they fell and
sto$plleTup d hail like sleet everywhere!
making walking ifficult and precarious.i
n ". IT. Is little consolation to know that
Atlanta and Mncon y and o Their Georgia 10,
points have had even m ore OF this win
try variety Of weather than has Rich
mor,d, But such Is the fact. q The effect!
sof the storm In this city was to keep the
great d ma jorlty8 OF the people u In ( doors
around their own firesides all the even
Ing; walking was tedious and funcer-j
tain and exposure to the falling seet
Far into the night Suns
day the down fall continue until wires
trees, IA car rails. pavementy everything
pearl. y, It waB beautiful sight to be-
hold. III \, VS. v I. s85
with the morning came rise In the!
Temperature and a Nigh tys thaw that MI
ed It he streets with slust and made the
gpavements nush-like mass, impeding
the movements OF ped ians.s The Ice
coated trolley wires and the flllng OF o.
the grooves OF the rails ma de trolley ira
flee difficult and uncertain Sunday nj ht,
and yesterday morning almost paralyzed
It. The company, realizing the severity
/ OF the storm had the car crews at work
8endeavoring to- keep the tracks II OPEN
But It was q heavy and difficult task
and towards morning the storm had the
belt r OF the struggle The thaWB came ca me
q relieve the situation nd ere the DAY
had far advanced. traffic had I. been re- re-.
ssumed everywhere and cars we're running
almost as Usual. Ri ~ 81 8
Low i Temperatures.
The mercury started ut 10 Sunday 4 morn y'': q
inE and remained near that figure for3
some time, grad ually rising until about
IS M. when go was the mark. a still
further drop brought the mercury to {! q
ipoint where rain succeeded hail but ~ II
froze where IL fell. Y and encrusted the;
loose hailstones that covered the earth
Two inches or more. BY yesterday NOR
Ing ats the tempera ture was thirty, but,
later on It rose until by noon 4 was 80 !.
and the thawz was In progress. BY . "a. =:
M. yesterday the mercury3 had 8t .'lN
inward in the tube to 40, but tina was,
the high mark. AS the 4 afternoon waned
and the evening came there was q era dual
tdrop until at midnight So had been " re-
corded and the mercury# ST III slowly So TX,
vi tn prospects OF much 10 Wei emperaattL
this morning \. u, 5fi5S n. y, sSs
THE wire service in thiE D. section vas aI
not materially interfered Wit though
further south there Il was serious trouble
Keeping up telegraphlc communities tons
with, many points, Il Macon, Ga, Il was
completely cut OF from Communication
YES terday,8 and Atlanta was severely
crinpled. 81 Toward night however, 5condi-s
lions had 1nucl, Improved, and the wire
service was almost normal &si The poles
and wires are put up to bett .Wltnstand
storms OF sleet in this section ION e. thar
further SOUTH and be sldes the storm was We
more severe In the Carolinas and Georgia
than 5hereabout. In Southern & Georgl1
conditions arc " orse. a'5 &.
a! The ST Gamer p hontas g, OF the ginia
Navigation Company, Il did no undertake n!
the passage, and, indeed, traffic In Hamp-
ton Roads and on the bay Is seriously
Ei,npeded. The fleet OF barges Of the
Richmond Cedar Works Is clicked and no
unable to furnish terlnls TO the works.
They arc weather bound near Norfolk
Taking the storm altogether 1t Is prob
ably the worst since the famous Feb
ruary blizzard uf 1909. The street railway
officials characterize It as the worst in
many years. TX 8Pedest trains 81 and especially
those who ventured y out Sunday, unite
IN stamping the storm one Of the worst
in their recolle lection. And yet Richmond
Jared well, compared with many other