El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-07

BY the foot folks downtown. The
snow thaWed and then frOze again Mon
day afternoon and made the slde"a a1llSs
as slick as a bail room floor One
trooper from Fort Bliss is reported 10
have broken his leg when he tumDled
downtown Monday afternoon. but the
fort hospital had no record of such an
accident
First Real Winter Weather.
Snow squeaked and wagon wheels
grOaned Tuesday morning Just like
back-east winter morning N January
The air was nippy enough to make the
ears and toes tingle and put plenty OF
pep" into the folks who were Tor
tunate enough to be outdoors The
parks and lawns where the snow had
not been swept had regular snow
bound" appearance and FL Paso enjoyed
its first real winter weather in many
years Many of the porch sleepers lost
their nerve and beat it to bed indoors
Monday night but those who braVed
the elements and slept out IN the ozone
were the winners by night OF Ilne
The Street cars had difficulty in
making the scheduled time because OF
the frozen switches and tracks covered
with snow and frost. The only serious
accident occurred on the Arizona
street line Monday afternoon, when an
Arizona car left the rails and injured
four passengers
All passenger trains were reported
late Tuesday because Of the snow and
cold, which caused the engines TO fan
to make steam enough to keep up the
one sleigh; stove EzPIodes.
The first sleigh many FL PasoanS
ever saw appeared on the streets Mon
day afternoon to the jingling accom-
paniment Of silver sleigh bells. 1t was
driven by c. P. Ballinger. owner OF me
Palace stables. The sleigh was sold
by the H P Noake company, and when
if was driven through the downtown
streets it reminded the older residents
Of the fact that the late Harry Noake
always appeared in cutter AFTER
An over jealous stoker on the first
class coach of the Mexican central
train Tuesday morning caus- the neat
ing stove to explode as the tram Was
crossing the bridge to j uareZ- a no
nero and Carlos Alvarez, two Mexican
immigration inspectors, who were IN
the first class car, were struck py 1iy
ing pieces of the stove. Romero was
struck in the back by a large piece OF
iron and was seriously injured Alvarez
was cut by falling glass from one OF
the windows. The end OF the car was
blown out and the first class pasen-
gers including many Americans
fbought that the train had been dyna-
mited, and stampeded for the door, Inc
train was delayed until after noon by
this accident and the frozen water
pipes on the train
IL -
but the weather makers back IN WASH
ington hedged and refused to say
whether it would be warmer or colueI-
At Roswell, n. NJ. the temperature
was reported to the weather office at
FL Paso as four above zero, the same
as in Ell Paso. At Phoenix the tempera-
ture was 20 above Tuesday morning. az
San Diego, also in the orange belt, az
go above. Denver was 16 below zero
ana southern Utah reported tempera-
t1re of Il degrees below zero. Big
Springs. Tex, reported 9 below.
Different Sort Of Snow.
A peculiarity about the present snow
fall is that the snow was dry, IN very
fine particles like sugar ana sanu, anQ
it did not cake and freeze MONDAY night
like the usual wet snow that rams mere re-
Tuesday morning it blew about Just as
readily as it did when it first fell Mon
day. and beneath the snow, when the
ground was kicked up. early Tuesday'
the earth was dry as powder before the
sun began to melt the snow. Usu-
ally the snow falling in FL Paso IS wet
and it first dampens the ground ana
then forms in cake with the 1reeZs
at night, but this time, 1t fell IKE
sand or sugar in grains and remained
that way throughout the ground De
meath remaining perfectly dry unth
the melting set in Tuesday
Because Of the cold and snow, the
races were again declared OF tues-
| day afternoon. The owners refused 70
enter their mounts for any Of the
races because Of the extreme cold
and the danger to their mounts pc
cause of the danger from pneumonia.
Majors Quits AS Prophet.
| B. e Majors says he is going TO
] quit guessing, as he is tired OF DelnS
! the weather goat he says "he9
/ he hits it right he gets nothing and
/ when he misses il, he gets the dick
| ems. He says folks are holdlnS MN
! responsible for the cold and snow ana
after 80 years Of guessing ne mas re-
tired on his laUrels. He dechnes 70
I saw whether it will be sunshiny next
/ Christmas or not
Snow Thayvs Things Ont
! When old man sun got down TO bust
/ ness Thursday morning he routed the
/ weather gIooms and spread a thick coat
/ OF sunshine over the landscape Inc
! snow was melting fast at noon anu
/ the weather was EASING. up ply WIN
/ the promise of more OF the Ialr anu
! warmer business Wednesday, 1t was
| still freezing in the shade, however.
Novelty to Thin
! Many of the Officers and soldiers OF
| the JuareZ garrison had never seen SO
/ much snow before in their llVess as Ihey
came from the south, where snow IS
4 unknown. The officers were out early
Tuesday morning enjoying the novel
experience and one came 10 american
| side to make pictures Of the parks and
! buildings covered with snow
! All Trains Late on tuesday.
After breaking a record by being the
! only train on lime Monday morning.
| the Texas & Pacific train got shy on
steam and limped into the union station
/ two hours late Tuesday. However, it
( had plenty of company, for none of the
| eastern trains were on time
The Santa Fe, grinding over icy rails
and through zero weather. did not reach
town until noon. though it should have
/ been here at 10 o'clock. The Golden
| State limited, pride of the Southwest
ern, lost its footing and slowly walked