The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-04
Severe Storm Tears Down Telegraph Wires and Communis
cation Above Washington is lmpossble-Forty-N Mile NJ
An-Hour Gale Wrecks Havoc All Along Atlantic Coast
WEATHER DIRECTOR EVANS PROMISES
BETTER BEHAVIOR OF EIEMENTS
Says Wind Will Have Spent Its Fury by Saturday-ncoIns
ing Trains Deayed-nfuriated Elements Deal
Lightly With Vngina-SnoW in South
west Part Of State

Days of yore, when the North and
South We're separate, entities came
wildly to mind in Richmond Friday
when a cherries, howiing, shrieking
and devastating gale and clouds OF
snow laid an impenetrabie barrier
between the sections.
Evidently riied because Walter
Wellman escaped thar fury several
weeks ago, and determined to pur-
sue him to his sumptuous apartments
in the Waldorf Astoria i'll New YORK,
the vicious. biting and destructive
elements which are native 10 cape
Hatteras formed an unholy and KILL
ing alliance Thursday afternoon and
started up the Atlantic coast with
vengeance after him who dared to
brave their fury In a dirigibie bal
loon. The South was thereby cut of
from communication with all North
ern points beyond Washington.
so eager were the Infatuated ele-
mentS, generalissimo of which was
40-mile an hour gale that could only
be stopped by 4o-mile an hour gale.
to get at Wellman that they paid but
scant attention to Richmond or other
Virginia cities.
Inc slOIIHCIS EdAAEitd shsS AASH
midst great chunks of snow, some
hail and considerable rain. Rich
mond got liberal doucing from Jupi-
ter Piuvius. quantity of larse-stoned
hath and q little snow.
Very stormy Night.
Throughout Thursday night win
dows ratified as they never did on
Halloween. and sleep was impossi-
Bile. Chilling blasts blew through all
apartments, and II was brave man
indeed who mustered sufffcient cour-
age to crawl from his couch at the
accustomed hour TO step into the
beside.
The telephone and telegraph wires
in Richmond and the 6tafe at large
wsre harmed but little by the furi-
Gus gale. Practically no trouble
was reported by the telephone COM
pmny on its local or long distance
switchboards. Chief Operators Jenk-
ms and Cline. OF the Postal and West
ern Union Telegraph Companies. re-
ported some trouble in the south
western part OF the State. but the
remainder Of the Old dominion es-
capped unscAthed.
Trains on. the Richmond. Freder-
icksburK and Potomac railroad were
late in arriving from Washington Fri
day morning because the engines had
to fiRht their way through snow banks
and pull heavily laden cars over Slip
perry tracks.
Dispatchers for the other railroads
said the majority of their Northern
trains were due to arrive In the city
during the afternoon and evening,
and until then they would not be
able to tell to what extent the storm
hot al M
them will be hours late is practically
certain.
Weather Director Evans said FRI
day that snow and freezing tempera
ture had been reported In the south
western part of the State. but that
Richmond's temperature had stub
bornly refused to be blown lower
than A. or ten above the freezing
point.
This is a storm from Cape Hat
teras," said Mr.. Evans Friday morn
ing. we displayed storm warnings
all along the Atlantic coast Thurs.
day.
THE storm formed of the cape
| and moved north rapidly. The We.
| Iocity OF the gale was forty miles al
! hour practically all Thursday night
/ and the greater part OF Friday fore,
| noon. Within the next twenty-foul
hours the wind will have subsidized
! and Richmond will have normal fal
weather. We have received no re-
| ports of any appreciable damage done
| In Virginia by the storm. although
! suppose a few houses and poles were
! blown down"
| Richmond knew little or nothing OF
what was transporting above Wash
/ ington for. try as they would. the tele-
| graph company managers and EN-
| ployees could not get into communica-
! ton with Baltimore. Philadelphia 0,
| New York. nor could any OF those cit
ties get I'm touch with each other b.