Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-02
CAPITAL IN GRASP
Of SEVERE STORM
S|NCELAST NIGHT
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City. The last train over that road
was due here yesterday afternoon at
5 o'clock and got In on time, or nearly
SO. but nothing has arrived since.
The trouble Is due partly to the snow
and the wind. but the main cause of de-
lay Is wire trouble, which prevents
trains receiving their orders or max
ing their locations known.
Delay to Passengers.
Many passengers on their way from
in their cars in the Union station walt
ing till the traffic is cleared up so that
they can proceed Others went on as far
as Philadelphia. Most of the trouble
seems to be between Trenton and New
York city.
There is no trouble with local trains.
Those from the south are running in fair
shape. Those due in Washington be-
tween $50 and 1920 am. arrived from
one to three hours late. Western trains
are also running from one to three hours
late.
The Humane Society today issued a spe-
cial appeal to drivers and owners OF
animals during the severe weather. The
appeal asked that the horses be blanketed
while standing, and that the usual loads
be reduced.
Progress Of the Storm.
The storm, according to the weather
bureau, was of the Georgia coast Sat-
urday, and off Cape Hatteras Sunday
morning. Last night 1t was east Of New
York, and today is off Long Island.
At o'clock this morning the gale. in
the nature of a whirlwind, was blow
ing sixty five miles an hour. marking
the worst of the storm in this city.
Later it had fallen to between forty
five and fifty miles, and Is expected 70
maintain that pace pretty evenly until
tomorrow morning: Heavy SNOWMAN Is
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey, SO that those sections are suffer-
ing even more than the District OF Co
lumbia, which probably will get on
WITHOUT much snow.
The storm was thoroughly expected.
Urgent storm warnings were sent out
Sunday morning by the weather bureau
all I'D and down the Atlantic coast line
in order that all vessels might remain in
port, and 1t Is expected therefore That
COMPARATIVELY little damage was done to
shipping.
A cold wave warning was also sent
out to the Atlantic states Sunday morn
ing. All Of these states report very
low temperatures. Augusta Ga. re-
and Charleston. s. c., twenty-four de-
gree. a owe. The March record for low
temperatures in that region. that had
stood for more than forty years. was
broken.
ton" according to the official forecast
of the week issued by the weather bu-
reau. land a general reaction to higher
temperatures will set in over the middle
west Monday and the eastern ana SOUTH
eastern states Tuesday.
Fair Weather to Follow.
Generally fair weather will prevail
during the next several days In practi-
ca1ly all parts of the country except the
north Pacific states. where rains Will be
frequent during the coming week.
1.-The next storm Of importance to cross
the country will appear on the north Pa
cffic coast Wednesday, cross the great
central valleys about Frday ana the
eastern states near the end OF the week.
This disturbance will cause general rains
on the Pacific slope and rains in south
ern and probably rains and SHOWS In
northern states east Of the Rocky noun
tains."
perature for this city was Al degrees: last
night the mercury dropped to Is above.
The lowest temperature for tonight Is ex-
pected to be IL OF IA degrees above zero.
Reports to the weather bureau concern,
rather meager owing to the trouble with
telegraph lines used by the bureau.
Lawyers Detained, Court Adjourns.
So completely had the storm tied up
trains to Washington that the United
States Supreme Court faced the neces-
sity of adjourning long before its reg
ular time because of the absence of
lawyers whose cases were to be heard.
Several of the lawyers whose cases
were to have been argued today were
from Philadelphia, New York or Boston.
A number of other lawyers from the
Sunday.
Prisoners Aboard Household.
Four men in business along the rive.
front last night had chilly experience