The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-01-13
STORM ADDS TO
FREIGHT TIEUP
Blizzard Develops Just as
Headway Was Being Made
to Ease Congestion.
ALL PLANS GO BY BOARD
''ClearaIce Week" Set for To-
morrow Made Impossible
by Blocked Lines.
ALL PLANS GO BY BOARD

veritable blizzard bowling out Of
the west that had reached Buffalo and
Pittsburg last night. paralyzing freight
and passenger trafYic in its path. threat
ems an advance upon New York to-day
which will overturn the we'll laid plans
OF A.'H. Smith. Assistant Director-Gen.
eral Of Railroads. for relieving railroad
congestion. Reliable reports received by
Mr.. Smith at the New York Central of.
fees in the late afternoon suggested a
possible tieup Of the roads IN the affected
area for seventy-two hours.
There was disgust and more appre-
hcnsion about the assistant directors Of
fees yesterday as the reports filtered in
Storm at this juncture will nullify a
weeks hard labor to speed up coal and
grain movements. Freight clearance
week. set to start tomorrow, will be
turned into a bitter hoax. AID the en-
barge scheme announced to be effective
Tuesday will merge into a general en-
barge OF tied up lines and blown down
wires.
a temperature of II below zero was
reported from Chicago. with snowfall in
creasing. Early in the morning Chicago
reported 20 per cent. improvement in
movements Of cars east. with fuel ar
| irving at nearly normal rate. The later
report showed all Chicago roads at a
| standstIll roofs OF several cars blown
OF. passengers being transferred from
stalled trains. 'All traffic abandoned" "
was the report.
Thro.Eh Trains Annulled,
| Incoming through trains on the Eric
were last night reported twenty -four
hours late. Through trains left or
schedule time. Pennsylvania train No
"a. which should have left Manhattan al
500 was annulled. II was announced
that service on the Fort Wayne route
west OF Pittsburg was discontinued
Sleeping cars were taken from the Penn
sylNania's train No. :. the Mercantile
! Express, which leaves New York at ) 40
and from train No. 10. which left for
Chicago at 80. Trains Nos. ia and
-. from ST. Louis for New York, were
taken off. II was said last night tha,
train No. ;. the Pennsylvania Limited
due to depart for Chicago at II: :O4 A
NJ would not be operated to-day
"S'e WsS he'"4 Made'
similarly. improvement OF westbound
traffic TO the West was roted until .hs
I blizzard came. The PENNSYLVANIA had
increa sed its movement by 700 cars
! The Erie was maintaining its average
The central fell behind .oo cars Ea.,.
bound loads on all lines incr.a 1S.
cars. In the New York territory re.
ports showed an abnormal number r,
cars at Harlem Hiyer waiting vest.
hound movement. The Long Island rail.
roads had l.O3l cors.,sao of them coal
bound for the West
Then along came tho storm renor,s
The meaning Of the .,ar,.ato teleeram.
was yerv rlain 10 the railroad men
They saw ,heir nc,l huiIt mans ,or 70
lief ~ int, tho discard and ano.be,
severe frai,bt congestion nenaing chi
Cages entities cannot come ,hroush
C,hica,o.s grai, viii he ,ied IN Th.
smn,ios in Ierse,. ana a, JIarIo,, p,ye,
Tuo ,,nnor,am, ,nos,;ncs y, ,.ur,,,
executives will he held to-day at office
in the Grand Central Terminal. Th'
embargo. the storm and operating plans
for the future to ease the congestion
will he discussed.
SO far as the coal supply IS concerned
there was some consolation In the figure
given out from Mr.. Smiths office. The,
showed that at New Jersey tidewate
coal terminals at = A. NJ. yesterday So.
4j0 tons OF anthracite and bituminou
had been dumped from cars into pockets
So. $50 tons had been loaded into barge
for moving, and in cars at tidewate