Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-29
RECORD-BREAK|NG
BLIZZARD SPENT,
|S|ND|CAT|ON NOW
Snow Had Reached Depth
of 1872 Inches Last Night
at 9 O'clock.
BEATS THAT OF 1890;
FORECAST TODAY, FAIR
transportation Service in All
Parts of the State
Crippled.
MhsiIINGTOS TRAINS STALLED
Richmond Is Virtually Isolated From
North Decnuse OF stupen-
AsiI'NGros TRAINS STALLED
Rirhmond Is Virtually Isolated From
North Decuuse OF stupen-
doRs Snowdriftn.

After thirty-clght hours OF con-
t!nuous bombardment, the snowstorn
which began in Richmond ut Z o'clock
Friday morning. and which soon de-
rcloped into blizzard. apparently
had abatcd at O'Clock last night.
AT that hour 1872 inches OF the fieecy
bianketed the earth. The storm was
the most severe and the fall the
grcateet In this generation, even sur
passing that OF 1899.
In some places the downy sub
stance. lifted and buffctcd about by
the wind. piled in drifts OF from six.
teen to thirty inches. In others, the
wind. which. Mt times reached We.
iocity OF twenty-five miles an hour
swent open epaceB almost bare. and
! deposited the accumulation OF fakes
UP sgainst honses or any other objsc,
In it's path that offered Resistance.
The minimum temperature yeater.
day was 20; tho maximum was 90
Forecast ISSUED yesterday by the
. United States Weather Bupeau doeo
not include snow on the weather
menu for today. To use the exact
words of the weather prognosticat tot
it will be fair. preceded by snow on
the coast. For tomorrow. fair weather
with rising temperature in the In
terror IL promised.
Benin To-day to Dig Out.
Indications last night pointing to
subsistence of The snowstorm which
has held Richmond and practically
the entire State in It's grasp for two
days and the better part of two
nights. Richmonders and Virginians
Will this morning begin the slow and
tedious process Of digging themselves
out from under the almost two feet
OF snow that has fallen since the rec
ordbreaking blizzard began early
Friday morning.
With myriad flakes of the f1eecy
still hurting earthward early yester-
day evening, with but scarcely per-
ccptible abatement, indications Mt that
time were that there would be no
Immediate cessation OF the fall, but at
8 o'clock the first rift that had been
disccrniblc since the storm set in he
( came apparent and 1t looked as II the
) storm had about spent itself. Snow
began to fall steadily again, however
shortly before IL o'clock.
Storm General In state.
Tho Storm. which. since early Fri
day morning. has held tho entire
State in Its grasp. has been general
over the entire Middle Atlantic Sec
ton. According to the Weather Blu
rcau. II had it's origin OFF the East
coast OF Florida Thursday night. The
velocity OF the storm Of wind and
snow, which was ccntered yesterday
off the North Carolina coast. grad
ually lost It's force as It Travelled
North.
In It's wake, It left Richmond and
practically the entire state storm
!, bound. Norfolk, too. was hard hit
A ffty-sIx-mile-an- hour gale inun-
dated a part of the business section
and shipping was crippled.
Washington Almost Cut on.
Reports OF the Weather Bureau
showed the fall OF snow to have been
heaviest in parts OF North Carolina
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and
the District of Columbia, Washing
ton was virtually isolated yesterday
as far as rail communication is con-
cerned. Tho snowstorm, which hit
Richmond Friday morning, reached
Z WaShlnSton ABOUT D O'CLOCK the same
afternoon. andtcitizcns OF the nations
capital awoke yesterday morning to
face conditions similar to those ex-
.perienced in Richmond twenty four
hours before,
Street car; and automobile trans
portation was virtually paralyzed in
Richmond yesterday, and thousands
OF workers who had been wont 10
depend upon one or. the other. where
by to reach their places of business
were forced to trudge, In some In.
stances, several miles to reach OF
flee or mart.
d The few trolleys and automobiles
'llat braved the elements soon came
TO grief and stalled street ana mo-
tor carS were familiar sights MI
aver the city. Tractors wero en-
plogedE on Broad Street TO mako I.
,spath for Syehicular. traffio. u
I. with nearly IA foot i and half ;o,t
isanow on the ground and.S ii Il 4 "a 4, Z
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