The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Six Persons Hurt as Taxi
and Automobile Crash
at 9Th Ay. and 32d st.
STREET CLEANERS PROMPT
5000 Extra Men Hired and
$40 Ploughs and Tractors
Quickly Put at Work.

Five thousand men were taken on
by the Street Cleaning Department
last night to attack the five inch snow
blanket that covered the city after it
had been lashed for more than eleven
hours by the tail end of blizzard
which swept up the coast from Hat
teras. burying Washington. Baltimore
and other Southern cities under ten
and twelve inches Of snow.
1t was the biggest storm of the sea-
son and was accompanied by winds OF
from forty to fifty miles an hour
The north-northeastern course Of the
storm saved the city from the full
fury Of the blizzard, which shifted
more and more to the east as it
Travelled north, hitting Boston before
the snowaales began to fall tere.
Officials Of the local Weather Bureau
We're satisfied late last night that the
worst Of the storm had passed Re-
ports from Buffalo and Springfield,
Mass, were of clear skies, which indi-
Gated that the storm rapidly was
drifting out to sea-
While hesitating to make a definite
statement. tine officials expressed the
belief that the snowstorm would be en-
tlrely ended before dawn, but that the
city to-day would be in the grip of
winds as stiff as those experienced yes
terday.
Tho storm caused but slight delays in
suburban railroad traffic or en- trains
coming In, from the West But there
were virtually no trains from the South
during the day, and those that did como
In were many hours late Freak!sh
weather conditions along the route of the
Long Island Railroad were reported by
officials at Jamaica. Trainmen said
there was very little snow on the eastern
end OF the island, while in the central
part II was raining. IN the vicinity of
Long Island City the snow was banked
quite deep, but not Of a sufficient depth
TO paralyze traffic. One steamship was
delayed in reaching port by the storm.
Quick Action by Cleaners.
The Street Cleaning Department be-
gan to fight the storm fifteen minutes
sitter the first flakes had fallen. Alfred
a. Taylor. Street Cleaning Commis-
sioner. was in touch with the Weather
Bureau throughout the morning and
had been told of the heavy snowfall in
the South. When the snow began to fall
mere he worked on the presumption that
this city might be visited by storm
or the same intenEity and ordered the
m
basis The storm began officially at
l:oe p. NJ. and at 1870 P. NJ. SO plows
and tractors were busy cleaning s5l
miles of city streets.
It was not until niShtfall however.
that tho department began taking on
extra men and IL was announced that
the force would be doubled to-day II
the storm had not abated. The extra
men gave to the department a working
force OF 500 men last night. OF which
about loo were manning the tractors
and plows. Harry Hart, assistant di-
rector Of snow removal. said the de-
partment had the situation well In hand
and that the work was proceeding with
clocklike precision.
Ine first serious accident attending
the storm occurred last night at Fifth
avenue and Eighty street, when
EDWARD u. Watterson, superintendent OF
printing plant, who lives at "a Wood
bury street. New Rochelle. iost control
OF his automobile and rlidded into a
taSicsb driven by Benjamin Rothman of
f236 Evergreen avenue. Brooklyn. The
taxicab was upset and its three oc-
cupants, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rice of
SO Montgomery street and Mrs. Louise
Appelbaum OF 263 Monroe street, werc
thrown to the street. They suffered
cuts about the face and body. as dsi
Mr. Wattcrson and two men VINO
we're In his car, l.. J. Boettncr OF 12t
Webster avenue, New Rochelle, aud his
son, Edward. 23 years old. All were
attended by a surgeon from Flower Hos
pital. Mr.. Rothman insisted upon the
arrest of Mr.. Wattcrson on an assault
charge.
More Accidents Due to snow.
Other accidents were reported 20 the
police. Mrs. Jennie T'hedner OF 533 East
Eighty-second street slipped and fell
In front of her home. She suffered a
fracture of the right hip and was taken
to tho City Hospital
Matthew Immowitg, ~. OF gil East
Seventy-second street. fell from a rail-
ing at 500 East Seventy-second street
and was taken to Flower Hospital with
q possible fracture OF the skull.
Max Berson, %, Of 17s Middleton street
Brooklyn. was knocked down by Sum-
ner avenue car at Broadway and Union
avenue, as he was trying to make his
way across the street In the binding
snowstorn. lie was caught under
meath the fender. and was so tightly
wedecd In that the rescue squad Of the
Fire Department had to be called to
free him. Efe suffered several lacere-
tions and possible informal injuries and
was taken 20 Sc. Catferine's Hospital.
Eocco sIsriio, 80, Of Fifth avenue and
Twcnty-second street, Brooklyn. labor
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