The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-02-26
SOUTH BLANKETEO
WITH SNOW AND SLEET
Records for From Eight to jTwen-
ty Years Broken.
TRAFFIC EIINDERED
Some Place. Have First Snow Of Any
Consequence Recorded for Past
Twenty Years.

Atlanta. Ga, Feb. 25.-The South
and the Southeast tonight shivered in
the gr.p of a general snow storm,
which blanketed TIE Atlantic sea-
board as far south as Southern Geor-
gia. and reached TO the gulf States.
weather bureau records for from
eight to twenty years were broken.
Failing temperatures accompanied
the storm in many sections, the snow
turning to .sleet
Wlile no serious Interruptions of
traffic were reported early tonight.
many trains were behind their scher
dulles in localit es whc:c the snow
fal was heaviest. = q,
The heaviest snowfall was reported
in Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi
and North Carolina and South Caro-
lima. AT Macon, Ca, the precipita-
ton reached a depth of six inches
WAile an almost equal amount was
reported at Augusta and Savannah. In
Louisiana and Mississippi the snow
began falling about noon and at mid
fall it had been recorded from a
trace in the extreme south to six
incnes in the northern section. Their
mometers at New Orleans, Mobile
and nEheT snlf points iiovored about
tie freezing point and the snow melted
as 1t fell
IN addition to a heavy snowfall In
south Carolina, the country around
Charleston was covered with a coat
ing OF ice and sleet. Snow changed
10 sleet late in the day causing prce-
ress on tine streets of the city to be
difficult. both for pedestrians and
traffic
Birmingham. Montgomery and other
Alabana cities were affected by the
snow storm More than four inches
fell In the former city.
While snow fell in the southern
part of North Carolina, low tempera-
lures in the northern part of the
state as we'll as Tennessee and Vir-
ginia showed the precipitation to be
light.
Mild West Of mississippi.
Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 25.-While
the Southeast and Central Cult
States today shivered, with some
sections experiencing their first snow
and sieet storms in years, fair and
comparatively mild weather prevailed
west OF the Mississippi river. At Okla
homa City, the weather bureau sta
tion thermometers recorded ~ de-
srees above zero late today. Shreve-
port, la, reported the weather pleas
ant; and throughout Texas the
weather was moderating after q few
sensationally low temperatures i,
the extreme southern portion of the
State last night For the first time
in years the mercury dropped below
the fgreezing point during the night
at Corpus Christi and Galveston re-
ported the heaviest snow storm in
twenty years.
Heaviest Fall In Recent Years.
Charlotte, n. c., Feb. 25.--Begi6ning
at $3.50 p. m, snow has been failing
here steadily and 1t s o'clock had
reached depth of two inches. This
ts the only appreciable snow fall OF
the winter and bids fair ia, be the
heaviest for, two or three years. Tho
mercury, however, is around thirty
degrees.
Coolest In Forty Years.
d4ynchburg. Va, Feb. 25.-The
weafhera bureau sk1Serlcnnses0ra S here
registering nine degrees last night,
Lynchburg today experienced the
coolest weather on February 25 since
the establishments OF Iae government
record In 1871. There was 40 snow
here today,
Sleet and Rain In Charleston
Charleston. s. C., Feb. %. TasoI
inches OF snow today fell here. The
snowfall was followed BY sIeetl
and rain storm and the city tonight IS
covered with glass coating Cf ice.
The sFloWf faii was the heaviest IN iIf-
teen YEARS ~. - 4519l's4, X
Heayiest since 1894
Birmingham. Ala. Feb. %. Four