Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-10
BLIZZARD CR|PPLES
TRAFFIC IN WEST;
HEADED THIS WAY
Telegraph and Telephone Wires
Down and Trains Delayed in
First Winter Gale.

| NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-Paralyzing
railroads, interrupting telegraph and
telephone communication, causing the
death of three men and doing great
! damage to shipping, q blizzard in
| which fall of snow of sixteen inches
Is reported in some places. has swept
over the Middle West and parts OF
the East and is apparently headed
| this way.
| In GAINESVILLE, o., fall of fourteen
inches of snow prevented the fire de-
partment from responding to alarms
| and a number of houses were burned
to the ground.
Northern West Virginia is buried
under sixteen inches of snow. Clarks-
burg and Fairmont are isolated. In
Wellsburg, Grant Southworth, a tele-
phone lineman, was shocked to death
repairing a broken wire.
Chicago. Pittsburgh. Columbus and
many other cities in Ohio; Detroit,
Buffalo. Indianapolis, Charlestown,
points in Georgia and many other
places suffered severely in tho storm.
A Baltimore and Ohio freight train
was stalled In snow drift seven
hours at ST. Clairsville, o.
New York early today received its
first touch of the cold wave predicted
by the weather bureau. At midnight
the temperature was 45. Three hours
later it was 40 and at o'clock the
mercury stood at 3S, with a moderate
wind getting stronger every minute.
The weather forecaster said that
colder weather will prevail.
Ftg4- 4 H.. ~
announced that in the eastern part
of New York there will be snow or
rain tonight and that 1t will be much
colder. Tuesday 1t will continue cold.
Thousands Of dollars damage was
done by the gale which ragged until
early today in this city and it's sub
urbs. The greatest damage was in
Jamaica Bay, where scores of motor
boats and other small craft were
torn from their mornings and
wrecked. Seven persons were rescued
from a sinking launch near the Raunt
while the gale was at its height.
Trains from the West were from
one to seven hours late in reaching
New York. The Twentieth Century
limited, due at $40 a. M, was posted
to arrive at between $40 and 4:4(
D. M Other New York Central trains
! were not as SeTlOuSly u6idyeu.
Telegraph and telephone companies
reported today that the centre OF
wire Generalization was in and about
| Cleveland.
Communication with Cleveland was
practically cut off this morning ano
there were no wires working west OF
Buffalo. Messages for Chicago were
sent via Atlanta, Memphis and st
Louis. There was only one wire be-
tween New York and Pittsburgh.
| Western Union officials said thai
the trouble was principally due tt
the blowing down of poles.
| BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 10. - TIL,
blizzard that has gripped the Middl,
| West for twenty-four hours arrived
here early today. The city awoke t.
| face a seventy mile-an-h hour gale tina
drove before 1t clouds of snow and
| sleet.
Trains from the storm centre ives
of here came in covered with ic'
! from three to seven hours late.
No boats were sighted off the har
| Dor today and the wireless has beer
unable to pick, up any steamers OF
Lake Erie for twenty-four hours, 81
1t was believed that ample warming
of the storm had sent all shipping
| to a safe anchorage.