The New York herald., 1922-01-30
WASHINGTON WORST
VICTIM OF BLIZZARD
as Storm Center Is Tied
Up Tight-Hundreds of
Cars in Snowdrifts.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Buried under
from one to more than two feet Of snow
eral decades the Middle Atlantic sec
tion of the country spent o-day In
valiant, but mostly vain efforts to re-
sume the activities suspended Friday
night. when the storm swerved up from
the South.
The storm. described by the Weather
Bureau as the worst In twenty-three
years, had it's center tonight slightly
north and east Of Cape Coo and was
moving slowly out over the ocean, but
in its wake from North Carolina to
Southern New England and from the
coast to the Allegheny Mountains all was
buried under a snow blanket.
Washington as the center Of the storm
area and the center Of the storm S
strength suffered the most severely
toll of nearly one hundred lives having
been taken and more than hundred in
jured some of whom may be added later
to the list of dead. The loss of liz in
the capital. with one or two exceptions.
was due to he collapse of the roof of a
motion picture theater under the weight
of twenty-six inches of snow, and this
catastrophe also accounted for most Of
the injuries
Even aside from the theatere dis
aster the Capital was hard hit, and al
though the snow stopped falling a few
hours after midnight 1t was not unil long
after day had dawned that the full effect
was assessed. Daybreak found the city
without any sort of street car service,
OF be I'LL "a.
snow. its surburbs completely cut Off,
deliveries of bread, milk and other
perishable foodstuffs greatly curtailed
and many buildings endangered by
heavy loads of snow. To-day was spent
in Attempts to restore a semblance of
normal conditions and though aided by
favorable weather-sunshine and thaw-
ing temperature-the city tonight was
still in the grip of the storm.
Other parts of the middle Atlantic Sec
tion experienced similar conditions to
lesser degree. Maryland felt the effect
or the storm almost as much as the
District of Columbia, and in Baltimore
the snowfall was almost as heavy as in
Washington. Southeastern Pennsylvania
and the region in and about Philadel-
phia, was covered with a foot 70 foot
and a half of snow. New York city and
adjacent sections of that State also ex-
perienced a heavy snowfall along with
eastern Delaware and New Jersey
The coastal region had addedeto the
factor of snow strong gales which. Grip
pied shipping. The Hampton Roads dis
trict experienced heavy seas along its
water fronts. a forty-two mile gale and
a dense mist of snow and sleet, which
kept the area within the Virginia Capes
closed to maritime traffic and made
20 fzx.r
vessels moving.
Reports to the Weather Bureau to.
night indicated that gales which we're
strong from Cape Cod to Cape Hat
teras during the day would diminish be-
fore the end of the night, as the storm
center passed out over the sea. The
forecast was for cloudy and unsettled
weather over the middle Atlantic region
tomorrow and Tuesday. with no SEE
verely cold weather.
Two new storms. however. were rush
ing toward the East. and Weather Bu-
reau officials scanned their charts and
reports anxiously to see II the two dis
turbances might add TO the general de-
They said tonight that
IL was too early to ascertain whether
the new storms one over Texas and the
other over the Northwest, would reach
the stricken region.
All indications in Washington tonight
were that even with the favorable
weather forecast IL would be days be-
fore normal conditions could be restored
Some Improvement, however. was dis
cernable tonight, railroads entering the
city announcing the more and more fire.
quent arrival of trains and one trunk
line traction company operating a few
cars on a single track in Pennsylvania
avenue and Fourteenth street.
With the exception of the one trunk
line. street car service was completely
Long lines of cars re-
mained through the day banked with
snow exactly where their crews had left
them Friday night and yesterday when
they surrendered to the storm. Ranged
alongside the cars and scattered through
side streets were hundreds OF automo-
bies stuck In the drifts and with the
snow In some cases driftcd over the
tops.
The population OF the city despite the
snow suffered little from
scarcity of foodstuffs. Bread. which
was unpurchasable last night In the resi-
Dental sections. was delivered to stores
most of the city during the