Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-16
HEAVY SNOWFALL
TIES UP TRAINS.
Six-Inoh Layer at Buffalo, With
Zero Weather-ohio Sui
fers Severely
KILLING FROST IN FLORIDA

Buffalo, Feb. l6.--Railroad trains
and electric. car systems were today
slowly breaking through the snow drifts
piled up yesterday when a SIX inch IAN
OF snow was accompanied by nifty
eight mile an hour gale and tempera-
ture near the zero marx,
Trains from east. west and south
were many hours later. and many had
been Cancelled. Traffic on interurban
electric lines was suspended for more
than twenty four hours.
One of the worst features OF the
storm was that it came on the heels OF
a thaw. Slush soon turned to ice, and
switches and signal systems were Grip
pied.
The railroads today advertised for
1000 extra men to help clear the yards.
The Pennsylvania Railroad announced
this morning that the $40 Buffalo cx-
press, which left Broad street station
yesterday, did not reach its destination
until late this morning. The express
for this city. scheduled to leave Buff
falo last night at 9:30, was annulled.
Columbus. o.. Feb. 16.--Trafhc over
the Pennsylvania Railroad lines through
Columbus had been restored virtually
to normal today after a tie up of sew
cral hours said by railroad officials TO
have been due TO sixty three engines
freezing UP.
Officials denied the trouble had been
caused by strike of shopmen in the
roundhouse last night as was first re-
ported.
Extra crews, they stated, had been
put to work early today thawing out
the frozen engines and service was be-
ing rapidly restored.
With the thermometer registering l
degree below zero at Cleveland and a
deep drifts, westbound passenger and
freight traffic on the New York Central
lines was badly delayed. Heavy SHOWS
east OF Ashtsbula, o., to Eric, Pa,
delayed all passenger and freight trains
from the East from eight to ten hours.
Washington, Feb. 16.--Another cold
wave gripped the eastern portion Of the
country today, the cold area extending
from Canada to the gulf and from the
Atlantic to the Mississippi river.
At the Weather Bureau it was said
that the cold snap would be of short
duration, however. The forecaster pre-
dicted that temperatures would begin 10
moderate tonight in the Ohio valley and
the upper lake region, and would con
tinue to moderate in those districts and
in the east gulf and middle Atlantic
states Tuesday.
Near freezing temperatures were reg
istered along the gulf coast as far west
as the Mississippi river this morning,
with killing frosts in northern Florida
and Georgin. In the middle Atlantic,
middle western and New England states
thermometers registered we'll below the
freezing point and in some places below
zero.
New York. Feb. 16-Rairosd com
municati with points west of Syra
cuse on the New York Central was vir-
tually suspended today because of the
worst blizzard of the winter in the re-
gion from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
Through trains from west of Buffalo
due early today, will not arrive in New
York before nightfall at the earliest. il
was said ut the railroad headquarters.
Temperatures as low as 10 degrees
below zepo were reported from the
lower lake region, with heavy snow
between Buffalo and Detroit. Engines
on the stalled trains are frozen and
passengers are suffering because of lack
Of heat.
Pittsburgh, Feb. 16.--More than
100000 persons in the Ohio valley.
south of Pittsburgh, shivered today be
cause a sixteen inch main of the Man =
| ufacurers' Light and Heat Co. had
broken during the night near Cameron
W. Va, and cut off their supply OF
natural gas. Many factories were shut
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