The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-06
COAST CITIES
AGAIN SWEPT
BY BLIZZARD
Local Forecast is for Cold
Weather 36 Hours Longer
Transportation Stopped
In New York.
GALES RISING ON SEA

GALES RISING ON SEA
After Sc hours more of intensely
cold weather, Richmond may look for
slight moderation early next week,
probably Monday or Tuesday, Willard
u Moore. Wayne county weather
man. said Saturday.
This weather is not unknown for the
locality he says. In 1906 there were
intervals of below zero weather I'D
until March %, and several days OF
to 10 degrees below. in the middle
of the month. 1t was seven above Sat
urday morning
There is no warm weather in the
United States at the present time, ex-
cept in California" he said. South
ern Florida Is not so severe, but Tam
pa may expect close to freezing wealth
er within "a hours. Florida, on the
whole, is unusually cold and wet
fBy Associated Press)
NEW YORK, March 6-The storm
king paid another unwelcome visit to
New York today, just as the city was
| commencing to recover from the ef-
! fects of the $4,000 900 blizzard a
! A2ASAAeAA o5os anu "lIA4iIL uOuIS the
| metropolis struggled with pelting
rain, a driving sleet storm and biting
snow squall.
| As the temperature dropped steadily
| during the night, the wind increased
until during the early morning hours
1t had reached an unofficial velocity
of so miles an hour, which BODIES ill
| for shipping off the coast
| The comparatively warm rain was
at first welcomed by a much harassed
street department, as the fall, at the
rate of an inch an hour, washed away
some of the icy, muddy relics of
February's blizzard. But the cutters
were soon turned into miniature mill
races, sewers were clogged, cellars
were flooded, small streams in the out
| lying sections overflowed their banks,
, roads were washed out and high tides
| contributed to damage along the wat
erfront. Thousands of emergency
| calls were received by the water de-
| partment.
Sleet Stops Transportation.
The sleet made a successful attack
on the transportation system. Service
on nearly all the trolley lines in Man
haitian and on some of the elevated
lines was crippled. The drifting snow
| u the anu even
motor plows, it was difficult to keep
traffic moving.
Ferry transportation was consider
ably impeded. Trains into the rail
way terminals were reported to be
considerably behind their schedules.
! PHILADELPHIA, March 6. - Low
! temperature, which came on the heels
of raging snow, wind and rain storm,
was expected today to check the
| floods which last night broke over
eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware,
causing heavy damage and driving
many persons from their homes.
The storm which ragged from eight
o'clock last night until shortly before
daylight, was one of the most severe
of the winter. Driven by a strong
northwest gale. the snow piled up in
big drifts and brought the trolley ser
vice in this city to a standstill. After
midnight the Market street elevated
was the ony line operated. Hundreds
sections were forced to spend the
night at hotels. Shipping on the Del
aware river was also impeded.
Virtually every stream in this sec
tfon of the state overflowed its banks
Saturday, and ice gorges broken by
the high water swept away bridges
and railroad tracks. Telegraph and
telephone service was put out of com
mission in many places and a number
of towns and cities were in darkness
last night by the flooding of power
plants. Trolley service was badly
crippled and several lines were forced
to cease operations entirely because
of washouts.
Scores of houses along the banks of
| the swollen streams were washed
away and many mills and factories
had to shut down because of flooded
boiler rooms. Men, women and chill
dren, marooned in their homes, were
rescued In boats, some of them being
| taken from second-story windows
/ Towns along the Schuylkill and Sus-
ouehanna rivers appeared to be the
heaviest sufferers. Reading, Lancas-
ter, Harrisburg, Williamsport and
Wilkesbarre reported heavy damage.
Parts of all these towns were inundat-
ed and much of the surrounding low
land was under water. Most of them
were without suburban trolley service
The breaking of two ice gorges in
the Schuylkill river above Reading.
caused all of the industries in that
city using electric power, to close.
CHICAGO, March 6.-Cold and light
SHOWS throughout the upper Missis-
sippi valley are moving slowly south
ward in the wake of the blizzard
which started there two days ago.
Weather forecasters predict the new
storm will die out within 48 hours.
but low temperatures will prevail over
wide area for several days.
Billings, Montana, was the coolest
place on the weather map today, re-
porting a temperature of "a degrees
below zero.