New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-12
SNOW HERE AGAIN
LOTS MORE on WAY,
IT'S SAID.
BLi22rd Due to FoIlozc Gale
That Szcept City During
the Night.

Tt looks like a big one" said the local
weather man, when he locked the Office
door and started homeward. shortly be
fore midnight. He stepped out into the
street and a gale from the northeast
tapped his long storm coat about his
ankles. He pulled his cap down over
his ears and strobe away up the street
He was prepared for it.
Since Wednesday, when .he first OBJ
served the low pressure areas darken-
ing the map in the southern portions of
the country, he had been nursing the Sc
cret. Early yesterday morning the
progress of the storm had confirmed his
suspicious, and he was prepared to make
9 public announcement-to prepare the
public for the worst.
Yes, we can say there will be a
heavy fall tomorrow. with high winds"
he said. "A regular blizzard" he ad-
mitted late in the evening
Three inches of snow had fallen at II
o'clock. and the visit started like the
other Two weekend affairs which New
York had already experienced. On Fri
cay. January Il, the second big storm
was imperil1ed when the Long Island
Railroad vas completely tied UP, made
Its appearance. The first big storm
came on Christmas night, playing gen
eral havoc in its two-days visit Among
other antics it marooned $50 passengers
on a Brooklyn Rapid Transit train be
tween Coney Island and Timer Park, and
kept them there for ten hours.
At 10 o'clock last night the local
Weather Bureau received this special
weather forecast from Washington.
Advisory storm warnings. s D. M" IT
read northeast, shifting Saturday TO
northwest; gales with snow Storm ad-
vancing rapidly northeastvard. Danger
for shipping on Middle Atlantic and New
England Coast"
The snow began falling about $50
o'clock and rapidly accumulated on the
sidewalks and Car tracks SO that traffic
began 20 be troubled in the latter part
of the evening. The high wind drifted
the snow somewhat. and the surface
cars were experiencing some difficulties
by 10 o'clock. while suburban trains at
the Grand Central Station were begin
nlnS 10 creep III d IlttI6 plL SIL4-oOiS
time.
Reports from other sections of the
country which came in during the even
ing indicated that the storm was general
in the East. At Pittsburg snow began
falling at noon, and at 10 O'Clock eight
inches had piled up. Drifts Of enormous
proportions were reported in the noun
tain districts, blockading the Baltimore
| & Ohio Railroad and staIling trolley
cars in many sections.
The upper Ohio Valley was wrapped
in a ten-inch blanket of snow early in
the evening, with the storm not yet at
an end. Reports from all parts OF West
Virginia indicated a fall varying in
depth from six inches at Fairmont 10
twenty inches in the mountains. Fears
for q tremendous flood in the Ohio VAL
ley after thaw were entertained.
The storm appeared yesterday morn
ing over Southern Alabama, attended by
high winds on the Gulf Coast and gen
eraI rains During the day the centre
of this storm moved rapidly inland in
northeasterly course and the area of
snow spread northward over the Ohio
Valley and the middle Atlantic states
toward New England.
The storm is not expected to last
longer than twenty-four hours and the
weather will probably be fair to-mor-
row. There will be decided drop in
the temperature. and a cold spell of
several days viii probably set in.
The fishing schooner Franklin D Nei-
son went ashore last night during the
strong easterly gale on Sandy Hook,
about a mile south of the proving
grounds Her crew of eight men reached
the beach safely 1t is feared the
schooner will prove a total loss, as she
IS pounding badly in the heavy seas.