Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-07
SEVERE STORMS IN EAST BADLY TIE UP
 RAILROAD TRAFFIC
New York Snow Bound With No Prospect of Relief
 in Sight

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 I Washington, Feb 6.-Severe storms raging over practically the entire eastern half of the United States have put serious impositions on the railroads, Director General Hines reported tonight. Trains were run. ming late on nearly every division east of the Mississippi river. Coast wise shipping, necessary link in the railroad transportation chain was demoralized, traffic being com. pletely tied up in some instances.
 These conditions, MT. Hines said have been further complicated by the spread of influenza among rail- road employees. The New York Cen. tral lines alone reported today over 2,0oO employees ill with the disease Directors Hardin of the eastern re- zion and Baldwin of the Allegheny region were numbered among the influenza victims.
 Maintenance of passenger train schedules has been increasingly diffi- cult, trains being forced to reduce speed to avoid accidents, ana blow through snow drifts. Tracks have been washed away in many places. | New York, Feb. 6.--New York still was storm bound late tonight and there was small prospect of relief, the city's great army of commuters started home through snow which the weather bureau said would con. tinue 12 hours. Generalization of transit lines was almost unprecedented. Only the subways were maintaining regular schedules and every train in them was literally mobbed at the rush hour. Surface cars had almost ceased to operate. Long lines of them were tied up in all parts of the city behind tangles of trucks, drays, motor busses, automobiles and taxicabs.
 | So serious was the situation .hat Mayor Hylan issued proclamation late today calling upon all persons engaged in the transportation busi- ness, excepting in the delivery of food stuffs, coal and milk, to cease work from tonight until Tuesday morning, turning their trucks and laboring forces over to the city to meet. the storm emergency.
 The street cleaning department ad- mitted that it was virtually helpless because of it's inability to hire men. From 75 cents to $1 an hour was offered for snow shovellers but only 5000 of the 14,O00 men needed could be recruited. On Fifth avenue the snow had been churned up by mo- tor cars until it was the consistency of dough. It rested on solid foun- dation of ice six inches thick. Dozens of persons were injured today, many seriously by falling cornices, awning and copings car ried down by weight of snow. Lieut. Col. Frederick Davison, stationed at Governors Island died late today from a fracture of the scull, suffered when he was struck by glass canopy. Several were injured when a wooden shed collapsed in front of a new building.
 Eight steamers were fast near Long Island sound and tugs sent to their relief were bucking vainly against the ice. The Maine of the New England Steamship company was ashore off Execution Point. Two wrecking tugs trying to assist her were fast in the ice.
 Storms Swing North.
 Washington, Feb. 6.-Looking out into the middlewest, weather bureau officials tonight saw relief for the eastern seaboard from the snow storms and the high winds which winds have held that portion of the country in their grip since Wednes- day.
 The storm area has swung to the north, it was said, and tonight had reached the New England coast. It had stopped showing in the southern group of middle Atlantic states and a surcease some time tomorrow was predicted for most of New York. The bureaus forecaster said it might be tomorrow night before the New Eng flanders could begin to shovel snow with assurance that their labors would not be in vain. But with the exception of New England, pros poets were that tomorrow would bring clearing weather.
 Temperatures turnout the storm area will remain about the same, slightly below freezing for the most part.
 The Ohio valley from which the better weather is coming will with exception of few scattering snow flurries, continue to enjoy moderate temperatures and fair skies.