The log cabin Democrat., 1921-02-19

night. Sunday will be fair and not so cold in the north portion, the pre- diCtion states.
 After an intermission of several hours snow began falling again about ? o'clock this afternoon.
 The oldest inhabitant had to turn down new page in his life's history this morning when he woke up and found the earth covered with a 19-inch snow.
 Yes, sir, that's offcial-19 inches. That figure was announced by Prof. E. E. Gordrey, local observer for the United States weather bureau, after careful measurements of precipitation during the 24 hours ending at o'clock i thls morning, both in melted and un- melted form. In fact, if it hadn't been wet snow and if the ground upon which it fell hadn't been warm at the beginning, there would have been two feet or more of snow.
 Melted and measured in the rain guage exactly 2.51 inches of precipi- tation was recorded in the 24-hour snowstorm. Snow ordinarily meas ures 10 inches on the level for each one inch of melted precipitation. If all the snow had been dry and none of it had melted as it reached the ground, the depth would have been 25 inches.
 But 19 inches exceeds all previous records. Judge J. w. Holt and J. H. Hartje, each of whom has spent ap- proximately three score years here, both told the Log Cabin Democrat today it was the biggest snow they had ever seen. In January, 1918, snow and sleet during the record breaking blizzard lasting nearly three weeks piled on the ground here to a depth of about two feet, but this occurred during a dozen or more different storms and not in a single, uninter- rupted snowfall.
 The excessive weight of the snow on roofs and awnings resulted in dam age aggregating several thousand dol lars. The heaviest loss probably was that of the Moore wagonyard, an enormous ironclad building on North Front street, which completely col lapsed early this morning. It was re- ported that some mules were killed in the crash, but later was stated that no persons or livestock were in the building when it fell.
 The collapse of large awning at the rear of the building occupied by B. T. Clifft's grocery and Durham & Company's real estate office carried with it large sections of the rear walls of both buildings. They are owned by Sam Frauenthal and Frau enthal & Schwarz, respectively. Tenn porary wooden walls were immedi ately erected The amount of dam age has not been estimated. The rear of w. F. Milburn's store was similarly damaged.
 Awnings in front of the four build ings from the postoffice to Dum's baker were carried down by the weight of the snow At this point the only breakage or interruption of electric service occurred, and it was quickly repaired.
 A shed measuring about 100 by 100 fleet collapsed at the plant of the Con- way Compress Company. There was no damage to the cotton and only about $2OO or $500 to the she'd Man ager R. H. Thurmond said
 No rural mail service, either by free delivery or star route, was attempted from the Conway postoffice today. It was realized that it would be impos- sible for the carriers to complete the trips and none of them were sent out. City delivery of mail was limited for the most part to the business district.
 Trains are running considerably be- hind their schedule, but the wonder is, unprepared as they are for such a sit uation, that they are able to travel. Train No. 1O4 from Little Rock had to blow through an unbroksn hsld of