Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-03
ONE OF WORST STORMS
OF WINTER IS GENERAL
Disrupts Railway Traffic, Hampers
Communication and Raises Riv-
crs to Flood Point.
HOPE OF RELIEF HELD OUT
Weather Man Predicts Storm Will
Pass To-Day, Leaving Fair Con-
ditions in Its Wake-New York
City Not Severe Sufferer.

One OF the worst storms of the win
ter Is general from the Middle West to
the Middle Atlantic States. New Eng
land and Throughout Canada. Rain. slcet,
snow and, wind have disrupted railway
traffic. hampered wire communication
and In some sections raised rivers to
the flood point. Tho weather man. how
ever. holds out hope of speedy relief
predicting that the storm probably will
pass Wednesday. leaving generally fair
weather in it's wake.
There have been heavy snows,or,ns
in tho northern tier of States. and there
railway traffic either has been almost
suspended or greatly retarded. one
Chicago and Northwestern train. filed
with passengers. was held in huge
bank OF snow near Maribcl, Wis. from
10 o'clock Sunday night until Tuesday
afternoon. Western Missouri, Kansas
and Southern Nebraska report that Il
heavy snowstorm has set in.
In the Middle West many wires have
been carried down. and n fall in tenn
perature is causing additional trouble.
Wire communication from Chicago to
many points was difficult
Northern and Western New York and
New England have been hit hard. and
traffic of all kinds has suffered severe
~. Ogdensburr, n. Y, reports that
business there has been almost entire
ly suspended by a gale and drifting
snow. Sleet and snow at Rochester
caused one of the worst tie-ups in the
history of interurban traffic with that
city. Massachusetts and Connecticut
points reported similar tieing up OF
trlfic on electric lines.
RIVERS REACH FLOOD
STAGE AS RESULT OF RAIN
The Monongahela and Allegheny
Rivers have reached the flood stage
as tho result OF snow and rain. Tho
lying sections OF Pittsburgh are
Inundated and trolley and railroad
traffic there were at standstill Tues
day night. Hundreds OF families have
left their home in this section and at
points up the Allegheny.
Many manufacturing plants. located
along these rivers and the Ohio have
been forced to cease operations tenn
porarlly. At Martins Ferry, Ohio, 1000
men have been forced to quit work, and
at East Liverpool the municipal pump
ing station and four pottcries have
been isolated. However. the rain hav-
ing ceased and the temperature hav-
ing fallen, the weather bureau eX-
presses the hope that the floods crest
will not reach thirty feet.
The Raritan River, in New Jersey,
also is out of it's banks, and ut New
Brunswick two manufacturing plants
have been forced to close Considerable
damage has been done there as n result
Of cellars being flooded.
What the Canadian RAILWAY authori-
ties characterize as the most severe
snowstorm to visit the Dominion in
years has partially demoralized railway
traffic on the main lines throughout the
country and has tied UP operations COM
pletely on branch lines. All trains are
arriving in Toronto from four to nine
hours late and some are still held up
BY drifts. Telegraph and telephone
companies state that wire communi-
cation has not been seriously inter-
fered with
New York City has not been n severe
suuerer from tho storm. Seabright "
j.. again suffered considerably from
high seas y number of buildings along
tho water front have been so under
mined that they probably will go I.
pieces