Smyrna times., 1922-02-01
NM AND VICINITY DIGS
|Tf II The BIG SNOW DRIFTS
SNOW STORM IN YEARs' AR
|NHSl % SSV MATERIAL DAMAGE

| syOw STORM IN YEARS
|fGsl }, " nv MATERIAL DAMAGE
:, Dismal Day in smyrna
,uIaN .' Here Than in Other Parts
Naos.,iiss.rIa-ROads No,is are Blocked
.I,na I'l,'srr and vicinity ha. dug 5 itself
fas =. ' snow storm of Saturday |
d tl,lis.t as and and worst since the biz
' ,Soe It was a dismal Satur-
o co,rrna. loyr, The snow began to
GiiaT ! iIr' night and by Saturday
..n lau'i had reached its intensity
''as'n 4 ~ wind Ind blowing a gale and the
ss ~ an, and pOwdey blowing into
3. "' All Friday night Saturday
n. a1 snow before it and but for the
s,t y q HI on top of the fine snow
4. = I,,t stages of the snow the
!, would have been more serious lou
I'm. As a business day Sat
4 / hardly paid the stores to be
Came closed at six O'Clock and
asn on to about $50 or 9 o'clock
[.isIIv IN every store was closed.
~,l, we're late, trains running
n hour behind schedule. Smyr-
'ssreb fortunately was able to OPP
/. ht the stone road between
=, and Clayton was so badly
81 IN places, teams had to detour.
|.'~oble traffic was out of the ques-
md few ventured forth. By Sun
he snow had reached a level of
y inches and drifts were any
], from 4 to 6 feet high. There
bigb drifts on Main street espe-
nm front Of Sections Garage.
d the pavements were cleared
suisy morning and Street Super
n Tuner and helpers had the
ssrgs at street intersections clear.
zts the high wind very little dam
! Vu done to the telephone service.
hi Of Digging Resumed Monday
Inisy the real work of digging
vas resumed with vigor on the
IL road and lateral roads. The
Il Highway Department had a cat
sTg tractor and snow plows. in
mission and by yesterday morning
tie drifts cleared away for traffic.
Eal Smyrna and Duck Greek was
d the worst places while farther
age we're drifts all along that
abe dug away. South of Smyr-
koE Wnght's Garage were other
lsces. The road from Smyrna
aytgn, approaching Font Hill was
Hted it took a force of wagons
men to dig it out. Nearly al
running east and west are bank
TA snow.
AEh Of Leipsic Road impossible
apdc road from the Finger BoarC
as snow had banked the road a.
Is the hedge rows and traffic i.
AP up there. Farmers West o.
ma and Clayton report bad road
NlOle to navigate. The rura
asaon began to come in Smyrn;
aa, some on horseback to d,
salng. In many cases the,
not use their lanes or the publi
Out had to cut across fields
amers with teams had to diI
"y out. The rural mail car
@efday could only operate
q aar routes but conditions ar
y better and to-day they hop
a'e to serve all their patrsor
With. ''O''S Ni'ei
@and Beach Escapes Damage
Auald Beach escaped materis
s' but the gale on Saturda
''l and night caused all shir
ne Delaware River and tn
.a'e Bay to come to a standstil
\ : vessels which had sougH
: 0enlnd the Delaware Breal
vent on their way, and thos
~. nlduelpnla, which wei
' anchor in the Delaware. a
'sle y during the day. Rehobot
~ " reports are made suffere
T N oamage from the wind ar
,.s AZ u. up and down the Delawar,
s,.fglna J, y Peninsula com,
v-. ~ 'ne = big snow storm, simil;
n In 7 The center of the stor
sa ~ Oe at Washington, whe.
! v,ia. se heavy snow fall was Il
saT < aeiOocker theatre collap