The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-21
Blizzard Threatens to
Tie Up Eastern Roads
Shenandoah and Cumberland
Valleys Are Piled High
With Snow.
NEW YORK STORMBOUND
Raging SnowstOrm Demoralizes
Traffic-Vessels on Coast
in Danger.
fRu Aa.oeiated Pre..l

WINCHESTER, Va, Feb. 20.--A bliz-
zard, raging tonight throughout the
Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys was
threatening TO block railways and high
ways, railroad agents were informed to-
night from over the territory.
The storm started with snowfall early
Saturday evening and with an inter
mingling OF rains and hail has left a
coating OF sleet and snow from IL TO 10
inches deep over the ground. Early to-
night the storm had shown no abatement
and in railway cuts the snow was re-
ported to have piled SO high that a tie
up was threatened The temperature
was reported rapidly falling and small
fruits, which had been encouraged by
the spring-like weather Of the last
few weeks TO send forth buds, are be-
lieved TO have been nipped, and newly
made gardens destroyed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-The storm
that came up from Alabama left in it's
wake heavy blanket of snow and sleet
In the middle Atlantic coast states,
Western Tennessee. Ohio Valley and
North Atlantic states.
Heavy Gale on Coast.
Along the coast heavy gales We're
blowing tonight. ships were putting in
70 the nearest harbors and mariners ex-
posed TO the elements feared for the
safety Of their crafts. Storm warnings
were issued by the weather bureau of
the Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras
northward
In some sections railroad transporta-
tlon was reported delayed by snow drifts
and communication In the rural sec
tions was made difficult by heavy
coating OF snow and ice. Some damage
10 fruit was expected in the southern
states, where premature budding was
encouraged by warm weather which had
prevailed for the last few weeks
VIII 6e Warmer Tonight.
The weather report for tonight indi-
Gates that the worst of the storm had
passed and that generally warmer
weather may be expected in the southern
states. The center OF the storm was re-
ported tonight off the coast OF New
England.
NEW YORK. Feb 2O.-Driven by a
northwesterly gale, a blizzard gripped
New York early today and blanketed the
city with IL inches Of snow. which was
stili falling at a late hour tonight City
authorities, remembering the congestion
Of traffic and suffering occasioned by the
heavy storms OF last year. summoned
1000 white wings" who were later
supplemented by more than 5000 civilian
volunteers 20 clear the main arteries Of
traffic.
EAiN IN the DAY the shipping board
steamship Cold Harbor went aground off
Coney Island The vessel is not in dan
ger. and is expected to be refloated at
high tide
In Nassau county. on Long Island,
Hampstead and surrounding towns
were completely isolated.
Up to a late hour tonight five
deaths and numerous accidents, direct
~ or indirectly caused by the storm.
had been reported. Two men were
found dead in drifts with snow shovels
in their hands. Another man lost his
life when he attempted to cross a
now-drifted beach In Staten Island
and a woman was killed in a Brook
Ism subway station when ice on her
shoes caused her to slip and fall in
front of an approaching train The
fifth person was a Brooklyn police
man. who stepped in front of street
car while temporarily blinded by the
storm He died later in a hospital.
Only two heavier snowfalls for
single day have been recorded in
New York city since 1856.