Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-12
WIRES WORST HIT
BY NEAR BLIZZARD
Repair Crews Rush Work-Rail-
roads Able to Keep Trains
on Time
STORM NOW OVER MAINE

The city is busy today chopping IT.
self out OF the ice which remains as
souvenir of the worst storm of the win
ter thus far.
Telegraph, telephone and electric
companies are making frantic efforts to
repair wires snapped by the wind and
the shcathing Of heavy ice which the
storm forged around them. Police OF
every district in town arc still clearing
away the debris Of broken branches OF
trees which Uttered the streets yester :
day and IN many instances made 1t
necessary for red danger lamps to be
displayed last night.
The storm wrapped the northeastern
section Of the United States in an icy
blanket and buffetcd the Atlantic coast
with gales ranging in velocity up to
scvcnty-siX miles an hour.
Today it is blowing over Southeastern
Maine, according to Weather bureau
reports. COld-wave warnings were or
dcrcd for Northern New England and
diction that "frosts are probable to-
night us far south as Central Florida.
Only One Death Here
Only ono death Is asCribcd to the
storm iu Philadelphia. The victim was
G.. l.. Pierce, 500 North Ringgold
street. wh,. was struck by two automo
biles which crashed yesterday after.
noon. at Fifty. fifth and Christian
streets. The cars skidded into him as
they collidcd and killed him instantly.
Edgar Allen. Negro. of Fifteenth
and South streets. and Harry Il. Van
Nest, 1723 South Frazier street, driv-
crs of the two cars, were arraigned be
fore Magistrate Dugan today at tho
Thirty second street and Woodland ave
nuc station, and held without bail foI
the Coroner.
In spite of the heavy coating of ice
which covers the CITY todav. Tbiladcl
phia was comparatively fortunate, Othc,
cities ON the Eastern seaboard had mucl
heavier falls of snow to contend with
, The rising tcmnoraturc Of vesterda y
| freezing mark most Of tho dav trans,
formed tho snow onnthes. prouud int,
melting slush. and tIrnSa =, III -f,yo,,i(
have been a blizzard into 4 IN instorm
When the ralnstorm .chanurG one,
more IN snow toward ayening + iookod
for n timr ms, n 'tbeS div might wsL,
nm this mornfag 10. SNOW "ninws "n, an,
hIocknded ,roi,a,, cbr. Eor,nno,a,v ,h,
clouds broke In tbe esriy evanins ,h,
nipbt was cold and e"S ciS,r .'e"s' and v,;t, it'
bright sunshine Sb;s nornino Tho J.n'
gcr of nm old f,sbionod J hi;.ns i"e ;s UNI ua,
o. ~" Wv '"s"''"e' o'A""'a 10 o'e'
Railroads Keep In
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lug , so'iI w rouolcu tue wire an an'
WanspoI'I,io. nonpaeles most In
rullFoaus hept ehnss OF men ut WORK 81
dhE Yesterday; WIN the result that ioca
trahc was uninterrupted. and long dis
tance trahc' even that coming from
sections OF the country where the storm
was worse than here, is reported run
ming on time. Only one long -distanc,
train from the West was reported from
thirty minutes to an hour late at point
great way from Philadelphia. will
the expectation of the engineer making
up lost time when he nears this city
/ The Philadelphia Rapid Transi
! 'ompany had its now plows an
swcepers at work until the snow cloud
broke last night. What DELAY there wa
4 in trolley traffic this morning was du
to the stalling of horse drawn vehicles
! Inrd for horsnS that wrrn nor rrugh