Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-02-04

! Ohtlnued from rage one.
by valiant efforts the Olympia Light
q Power company, whose Westside
line was stalled" again as on Nom
day night, kept up an intermittent
service on South Main and East
Fourth streets. The company had
most OF its employees out, in addition
to several crews Of men, shoveling
snow from the tracks, where a big
road scraper was also used, and Olym-
plans were furnished street car Sprv-
ice when residents of Seattle and Ia
coma had TO walk. Few persons ver-
tured out during the day, deliveries
of all kinds were practically halted
or carried on at long intervals and
with great difficulty. School attend
ance throughout the city fell off re-
markedly, while in several Of the
country districts the schools were
dispensed with temporarily.
Several Buildings Collapse.
The heavy rain Tuesday afternoon
and night. falling in the heavy cover
ing of wet snow, and the added
weight Of Wednesdays storm, made
the white blanket very soggy and I'M
usually heavy, and various property
owners feared for the roofs of their
buildings. Several cave-ins were
reported, one being the barn on
Columbia street occupied by George
Webb's livery stable, which caved in
early Thursday morning, but all the
horses were removed uninjured. The
heavy weight of snow caused the
marQuise on the front of the new
Central building on Washington
street to collapse Wednesday after
noon, though without causing any
other damage or injuring anyone.
This was warning to owners of 9TH
er business buildings and in a short
time heavy braces were placed under
all the wooden awnings in the city.
The roof of one Of the sheds at the
Olympia Door company also collapsed
Wednesday afternoon from the
weight of the snow, but the extent of
the damage will not be known until
the snow is cleared away, as the shed
was filled with lumber and it is i'm
possible to tell whether this is dam
aged or not. At about the same time
the roof on the roundhouse at the
plant of the Capital City Iron Works,
not far from the Door company, par
TALLY collapsed, being caught and
held by the interior supports. A
boathouse or two along the water
front foundered with their heavy
burden, while several launches,
moored at dicerent points along the
harbor, either keeled over or were
entirely submerged. The open-face
clocks on the statehouse and the Odd
Fellows building were put out of
commission by the storm and snow,
and reports of collapsed buildings
aer received from dicerent parts of
the county.
/ The snowfall of the present sea-
son, totalling practically three feet
during the last six weeks, with a
record of nearly foot and half this
week, is the worst that Western
Washington has experienced for
years. and recalls to old-timers the
six-foot snow Of 1880. This seasons
snowfall is the heaviest in the 20
years. history Of the local weather
bureau, which recorded a fall of 20
inches in January, 1899, that lasted
IL days, and one of 23.5 inches in
January, 1909, which lasted lust a
week. Three years ago IT'S inches
Of snow fell.
Worse Down.Sound.
In spite of the heavy snow here,
Olympia and the country Immediate
~ surrounding Jared somewhat bet
ter than the down-Sound districts.
Nearly foot of snow fell in Tacoma
Wednesday while Seattle reported
more than foot and a half, which
practically blocked all traffic, drove
the jitneys to shelter and almost tied
up the street car service, the great
est effort making it possible to keep
open only few lines.
Transcontinental trains were de-
layed "a hours or more, and then
pulled over the mountains in sections,
five engines being necessary in one
instance to move two passenger
coaches. In the vicinity of the SIAM
pede tunnel a 60-foot snow is report