The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-11-10
More Than a Month before the
Calendar Says the Winter
Season Begins.
ENTIRE FALL THREE FEET
Blizzard Weather Accompany
ing the Fall Cuts City Off
from Outside World.

efeu Win the tnlckeBL DlankeL OIL snow
within the memory OF man at this time
Of year. Snow began to fall at 8
O'Clock Sunday morning and the fall
has continued for thirty-six hours
with only slight cessations. Just how
much snow has fallen Is conjectural.
The ground was wet and the weather
mild when 1t began showing and it
was daylight before 1t began to make
a showing on the ground. After that
1t has continued TO melt and much OF
1t has run off as water. In the Clarks-
burg section the average depth on the
ground now Is estimated a twenty
inches nd 1t Is the general opinion
that fully three feet of snow has
fallen. Blizzard weather prevailed a
goodly part of Sunday and 1t was most
disagreeable to be out of doors
The extraordinary snowfall practi-
cally cut the city off from the outside
world, as railroads, traction lines and
telephone and Geographic systems
were put out of commission early
Sunday The Western Union has had
no wires outside of the city since Sat
llrday night not even to Buckhannon.
The long distance telephone service OF
the Bell system consisted merely Of a
faint service by way of Cam
bridge, on, to Wheeling. After
thrity-six hours suspension, that
company finally succeeded in getting
a partial service restored TO Parkers-
burg. Pittsburg and Cincinnati as
well as the east are entirely cut off.
Similar conditions have prevailed and
now exist with the Consolidated Tele-
phone Company's system. Local tele-
phone wires were badly crippled but
repair forces have them in fairly
good shape now.
The Associated Press wire from
Pittsburg to Clarksburg was restored
at $3.50 o'clock Monday afternoon.
Traction Cars Resume.
After a complete suspension here
OF twenty-four hours on account OF
the heavy snow storm and the break
ing OF transmission wires street car
traffic was resumed at noon Monday
with an. irregular and very slow
schedule. Interurban traffic toward
Fairmont began somewhat earlier MS
a car left the station here at 9:15. The
first car to start to Weston left the
Orpheum corner a 1880 with the in
tention of running only to Interstate
to get in line with cars remaining
stationed on that line.
Resumption from Grasselli to
Bridgeport and return was deferred
until later in order to get car back
on the track at Bridgeport A car was
also off on the Broad Oaks line and
resumption on that line was also de-
layeh
Street car paralysis became COM
plete in the city and on the suburban
and interurbS2 lines at 12:17 o'clock
Sunday forenoon, when the power
went off. Cars were dead at various
points on the system. On the line to
Fairmont cars stopped still at the Rey-
nolds siding, Gypsy and Chiefton,
while on the Weston line car stood
still at Shadybrook, another at Lost
Creek and another at Mt. Clare. The
last car out Sunday morning on the
Weston line left here at 1850. An
Adamston car and the Despard car
stopped at the foot of Pike street near
the Catholic church, one Bridgeport
car and one Wilsonburg car at Adams
ton. the depot car on the Glen Elk
bridge one Broad Oaks car on Harrl-
son street, one Bridgeport car at
bridgeport off the track and other
cars at various points
The service at Fairmont was Grip
pied to some extent but the company
managed to keep cars running there
throughout the storm Sunday.
Trains All Delayed.
Passenger traffic the main line OF
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad be-
tween Baltimore and Parkersburg has
been badly crippled since Sunday noon
by the heavy snowstorm, the principal
damage being done to the wires. the
trains being compelled to run slow
on account OF not having any orders
West bound fast passenger train
No. 3, due at the local station at $40
arrived at 1870 o'clock Monday after
noon, almost four hours lHe. East
bound accommodation train No. a..
due at the local station at 1888, was
thirty minutes late.
Although a large number OF men
have been working on the lines for
the last twenty-four hours little head
way has been made and it will be late
Tuesday before the trains will be run
ming on their regular schedule again
The west bound trains due at the
local station Sunday afternoon and
evening were all late. The afternoon
accommodation rue here at S.25 was
thirty minutes late, No. 80 due here
at Sos was an hour late, No. ] due
here at 1858 a. m. did not run until
7:S5 o'clock Monday morning.
The east bound trains are running
late but not so much as the west
bound trains, No. IL, due here a,
$40 Sunday evening was an hour late.
No. 4. due here at 9.35, did not run
until 1905, and No. ., due here at 1852
was an hour and ten minutes late.
Railroad men state that there is but
little snow east OF Keyser and that the
main trouble is at Terra Alta where
the snow IS deep and drifted.
General property damage has not
been reported as great, although fruit
and shade trees in many places have