The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-12-07
Traffic Tied Up
onOmaha Streets
by Sheets of Ice
Horse Falls OH Man-Another
Omahan Suffers Probable
Fractured Skull-Skater
Directs Traffic.

a. E. Snow, 142 North Thirty-fifth
street. stepped out of the Ortman
bakery, PIG North Sixteenth street, at
. yesterday afternoon.
AS his feet struck the icy cement,
they flew out from under him and he
fell striking his head on the side
walk.
Snow was taken to the emergency
hospital at Central police headquar-
ters, where surgeons stated he may
have suffered fracture of the skull.
Alec Epstein. 2o55 North Nineteenth
street, was leading horse at Elev-
enth and Jackson streets.
Old Dobbin slipped and fell--right
on Epstein The man suffered severe
body bruises and was taken to the
Central police headquarters emer-
gency hospital.
Turnkey Injured.
John Brady, 5341 North Twenty
fourth street, veteran turnkey at the
city jail, fell at Eleventh and Dodge
streets and suffered painful body
bruises. lie was given treatment at
Tue Cff1tIStflty plttt VI SCiitl oi Bo-
lice headquarters.
These were the three most serious
mshaps in the city following the
steady cyrstaliza tion of the mist which
formed a thin but substantial eating
of ice on the sidewalks and pave
ments.
Motor cars skidded hither and yon,
,I~ ~,
their effort to continue under motion
without the chains which mai hcf
left in garage and barn.
Farnam, Douglas and Dodge street
bills were negotiated with difficulty
by pedestrians. and not at all by
most motor cars.
Autos Crash.
Even street cars had difficulties un.
til the motormen grew generous with
sand.
A truck of the Jake Robinson
Fruit company forced II. r. Payne's
automobile onto the sidewalk along
Seventeenth street. between Farnam
and Douglas streets.
A Satin Ice cream truck, feeling its
oats and desiring to add it's little jest
to the festivities of the occasion,
kissed the light pole at Sixteenth and
Douglas streets.
But it was such a passionate kiss
that the light pole was completely
overcome. snapped off at the base.
More than q dozen automobiles
were tied up in the two blocks be-
tween Eighteenth and Sixteenth streets
on Douglas street, but the drivers
were heard to remark that this is a
tough hill to make on high when it's
not so slippery"
Traffic Cut OFF.
Traffic on Douglas street between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets was
shut off late in the afternoon and of.
ficers posted to halt motor cars from
attempting to make the grade either
up or down.
Police Commissioner Henry w.
Dunn appealed to Street Commissioner
Dean Noyes to start his employees at
work at once in spreading asher and
cinders on the more dangerous down.
town hills, and later to be distributed
throughout the city thoroughfares.
A. 3. Jacobson, one of Omaha's
champion skaters, as soon as he saw
what Old Man Winter was staging on
Omaha streets, donned his skates and
shook mean hoof getting downtown
from his Dundee home at 5115 Burt
street.
He coasted down the hills, he said,
and hooked street cars and automo.
biles to make the upgrades.
When he arrived In front OF the
Henshaw hotel, he started to assist
in directing traffic UP the slippery
hill. skating here and there to aid in
making the grade.