The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-30
MIDDLE ATLANTIC IS TRYING TO DIG
 FROM UNDER SNOW
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which crippled shipping. The Hamp- ton Roads district experienced heavy seas along it's water fronts, a 42-mile gale, and a dense mist of snow and sleet. which kept the areas within the Virginia Capes closed to mari time traffic and made navigation ex- tremely perilous to the few vessels moving.
 Reports to the weather bureau to- night indicated that gales which were strong from Cape Cod to Hat teras during the day would diminish before the end of the night as the storm center passed out over the sea The forecast was for cloudy and un- settled weather over the middle At lantic region tomorrow and Tuesday with no severely cold weather.
 Two new storms. however were rushing toward the east and weather bureau officials scanned their charts and reports anxiously to sec if the two disturbances might add to the general demoralizaton. They said tonight that 1t was too early to as- certain whether the new storms, one over Texas and the other over the northwest, would reach the Stricken region.
 Few Cars Operating
  tight were that even with the favor able weather forecast it would be days before normal conditions were restored. Some improvement, how ever, was discernable tonight, rail- roads entering the city announcing tho more and more frequent arrival of trains and one trunk line traction company operating a few cars on d single track on Pennsylvania avenue and Fourteenth street.
 With the exception of the one trunk line, street car service, however, was completely demoralized. Long lines of cars remained through the day banked with snow exactly where their crews had left them Friday night and yesterday when they surrendered 70 -thA atarrsa. Ranged along side the cars and scattered through side streets were hundreds of automobiles stuck in the drifts and with the snow in some cases drifted over the tops.
 The population of the city. despite the blockading snow, suffered little from a scarcity of foodstuffs Bread which was unpurchasable last night in the residential sections, was deliv- cred to stores throughout most of the city during the day.
 Many Torches Collapse
 Taking warning from the thea tre catastrophe. many apartment houses and office buildings issued or ders early in the day for removal of the snow from the roofs, Many porches and small structurts, how ever, collapsed.
 Daybreak was welcomed by the city iremen and police, who described the preceding hours as "a night of hor- TOT" Fires were reported In nearly half dozen widely separated sec lions last night after practically all the fire fighting apparatus had been sent to the scene of the theatre dis aster as precautionary measure. The net damage, however, was not given.
 Reflecting the tie-up of railroad transportation. hundreds slept last night in the Union tsation on cots sent there by the war department. Many of the stranded travellers were still in the capital tonight, and while some had obtained hotel accommoda- tions. others slept as they did last night, To aid in the transmission Of mails Secretary Denby early today or dered 500 marines from Quantico. Va, and 15o from the marine bar racks here into the railroad yards to remove snow.
 CAFES KEPT CLOSED
 RY GALE. SNOW. SHEET
 Norfolk, January 29.-A 42-mile gale and snow and sleet kept the Virginia Capes closed to maritime traffic today and tonight.
 Radio sdvices fro mthe disabled na- val fuel ship, Arethusa, today stated the towing hawser had again parted and that the coast guard cutters Yamacraw and Seminole were stand hN In a n an0thpr line to the crippled ship. The ves- sells position was given just outside the capes. For six days two cutters and several naval vessels have been struggling to bring the helpless ship from Cape Fear to this port.
 The naval tug Wandank was or dered to sea today to search for the ho ~~o R. w. Mcdonald, which broke adrift from the tug Peerless yester-
 ting barge was last seen by the steamer Munaldro 12