The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-10
FREAK SNOWSORM
SWEEPS THE CITY
Rain, Snow and Hail Play Hav-
oc With All Transportation
Schedules.
DAMAGE AND DISCOMFORT
MORE SNOW is PREDICTED BY
LOCAL WEATHER FoRECAsTER.

salt Lake received its first touch
of winter high life yesterday at dusk
and one of the fiercest billiards known
in years caught this city in its twist
ing grip, while the whole inter-mOun-
tain region was bathed in a shower Of
hail and snow, delaying trains and
knocking street car schedules into
smithereens.
Shortly before 6 o'clock the wind
Veered from the east to the northeast,
gathered in velocity and sWOOped down
upon Salt Lake with a binding storm
of hail and frozen snow
Just at the time when most good
people begin TO think of home and sup
per- this icy visitation was by no means
welcome. Street cars became late, and
when they did plough through the
snow they were packed to the guards.
| The sIeet and frozen snow made go
ing bad. and later when the wind be
came more dOcile, the hail changed to
soft flakes that spread mantle over
the earth some inches thick in very
short space of time.
In consequence whereof the weather
man who predicted rain or snow
got bOth-and one Of them with a ven
geance
The Denver & Rio Grande reported
very little hardness OF trains, al
though the storm sWirled along the
/ line to the east for more than 100
miles.
The Oregon Short Line trains ex-
/ perienCed little delay on account Of the
storm although the connections TO the
north were late, owing 70 belated trains
/ on the Butte line and the o. r. & n.
East on the Union Pacific, and west
on the Southern Pacific the storm COW
cred the tracks but trains operated
with slight delay.
The local telephone companies re-
/ port trivial line troubles here and
/ there, but nothing out of the ordi-
| nary, while the power circuits OF the
] H-.r.A Dol ny
/ barely affected.
Street Cars Delayed.
The only serious effect of the storm
was the impeachment of street car trait
/ tic. The sweepers were put out, but
| We're no match for the downfall, and
| the cars fell behind time.
] Outside of that unpleasantness and
/ a falling off in attendance at the
| theatres last night the combination
/ of hail, frozen snow, light snow and
| wind didn't accomplish much OF its
| fCresWorn purpose after all The
| storm abated about o'clock, and the
/ old resident began comparing IL with
I the blizzard of 70, much to tgg dis
| credit of this latter invasion.
/ An hour later the second prec1plta-
| ton started, and it showed intermit-
I tently during the night until the az
/ gregate precipitation reached several
inches. The street car company had
/ a force of men at work all night clear
/ ing me tracks anC keeping the switches
open.
A. II. Thiessen, weather man, pleased
with the result Of his representation
| for Thursday. has now devised com
/ bination for Friday, which means more
snow followed by much cold. Pc
/ culiarly enough, he must have left
the weather office early yesterday, for
/ he reports that there was merely a
/ trace of precipitation up to 8 o'clock
| last night. Those who were out on
l Main street half an hour before that
viii testify that the trace was almighty
| unpleasant.
! Weather FOrecaster Thiessen is still
| of the opinion that more snow is due.
/ His forecast until 6 p. m. today says
| that the northwest low pressure area
/ will continue to move to the east and
/ viii cause snow in this vicinity and
/ colder weather today.
/ The temperature report of Wednes-
/ day shows the normal to have been
1 81 while the mean was IS. Only q
! trace of precipitation is reported for
/ salt Lake yesterday.