Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-14
THIRTEEN INCHES OF
SNOW BLANKETS CITY
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The temperature during the srorm
was about 26 degrees. At o'clock
this morning it had fallen to 10 de-
grees. and the expectation is that the
temperature will fall as low as or
, ~ degrees tonight. the cold spell
then lasting at least two days Strong
west winds will prevail after to-
night.
Car Service Hindcrcd
shortly after the beginning of the
storm last night. the fall was so
heavy and the force of the wind so
slfChg that the streets were cleared
of pedestrians. At the height of the
storm there was practically no street
car service at all with outside points
and'th cars in the city were run
hihS on their own schedules. Three
SWeehcrs and one ploW worked all
nlght to clear the tracks of the street
railway system of the heavy snow.
Al fairly early hour this morning
cas- we're running on the main city
lIn"s and the sweepers We're at work
on the minor street lines The cars
We're unable to get through to
l.inslestown this morning. Oberlin
could tc reached only by way of
tthn"lI'ers street. Steelton. and cars
we're running irregularlv to Hum
melstown and Highspire. There was
no street car communication to Mid
dletowo, and authorities at the offices
oil Tho transportation company said
tFere would be no car run through
to Rockville until late tonight or
to mt frow.
Schedule ITregulars
Where the street cars were run
ming to the surrounding towns this
morning, they were running on very
irregular schedules, and even in the
city there was no service to warrant
statement that the cars We're run
ming regularly, or as per schedule.
In an effort to clear the lines to
Mtddletown, three cars were buried
in the snow.
SWeepers worked all morning to
open the tracks to Linglestown,
Rockville, and Middletown. In some
cases the drifts were reported to be
seve infect deep. Unable to keep
to their scedules, cars travelled all
over the city and to all the sur
rounding towns in twos and threes,
sometimes, it was reported, hours
apart. In the city, the cars were
run on the main lines on q ten min
utes schedule as near as possible.
City Lines Not Open
Cars in the city were running as
best they could this morning. with
little attention to schedule. The ef-
fort to open up the Capital street
line was abandoned at an early hour
this morning. Toward the latter
part of the morning, the street car
transportation had assumed n fair
degree of it's usual service.
Mail trains arrived in the city
from four to nineteen hours late,
Postmaster Sites said. Western
trains were especially late, the train
from st. Louis that should have ar
rived at go yesterday morning not
arriving until 4.45 this morning.
Other trains are correspondingly
late.
Mail Service Hurt
Owing to the difficulty of maxi
ing way through the snow, it was
necessary to eliminate some mail
deliveries to-day. To the center of
the town there were three deliv-
cries, instead of five, one at 7.30 a.
m, 12.45 and $50. The noon de-
livery was not made to the out
lying portions. Postmaster Sites
said this measure was necessary if
the mails were to be handled at all.
Street Force Busy
The second snowstorm of the year
found the authorities better able to
take care of the street clearing than
before. At an early hour this morn
ing a large force was busy on the
streets, and property owners had
cleared off large percentage of the
sidewalks before much foot traffic