The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-02-28
GRADY HARD HIT
As REAL WINTER
WEATHER COMES
County Is BIanketed Under Sheet OF
Ice and sno' With Temperature
hoverino Toward the
Zero Mark.
COMMUNICATION LINES
REPORT SOME TROUBLE
Toll LIres Of Phone Company Re.
ported Out; Street Cars Blocked;
Auto Wrecks Frequent;
Trains on Time.

In n bclated onslaught TO demon.
strate what he really can do. Old
Boreas swooped down last night de.
lIvcring TIE worst storm OF the win.
ter. and IN fact the only real win.
ter weather as concerns snow and
sleet that Grady county has ex.
perieneed.
The result was that Chickasha
and Grady county were being held
In the well known grip OF a terrific
snow ana sleet storm today with
the thermometer lowering around
the lG above mark and with consid.
cradle trouble being reported to
communication lines.
The thing started yesterday fore
noon with n drizzle or mist hustling
down from the north and freezing
on wires and trees as the afternoon
wore on. BY yesterday evening the
ravcments were covered with thin
sheet OF ice and the temperature
had lowered until II made trips out.
door extremely unpleasant and
transportation via motor vehicle
more or less hazardous.
sIeet Storm Starts.
Early last night. the mlsts had
turned to sleet. the pavements were
entirely covered with ice and the
temperature was settling down well
below freezing. The low mark as
recorded by the local weather bureau
was 1G>dcgrees above.
The result Of the ice was that
many automobile accidents were re.
ported. SO far as could be learned
this morning. no one had been in
jured, but the garages were report
ing that a number Of cars were
damaged. These were mostly the
results Of the cars skidding into the
curbing. Broken wheels were plen-
tiful and the garage men were kept
fairly busy hauling in the damaged
motor ears and repairing them.
Snow Early Today.
Snow started falling during the
wee sma' hours Of the morning. with
the result that the ground was well
covered when Chickasha started to
work and the storm continued un-
abated with drifts piling high. The
snow was accompanied by strong
wind, causing the drifts to be pillng
high and the indications near noon
were that the snow fall would CON
tinue.
Few automobiles were seen on the
streets during the forenoon, these
being in the main service cars with
a few scattered delivery trucks. The
Chickasha street railway was in the
throes OF the toughest battle the
line has ever experienced to keep
the cars running Snow and sleet
covered the tracks while the trolley
wire was caked with ice Cars were
SO far off schedule that the motor
men were paying no attention to
time, but bending every energy to
keep going. During tho forenoon,
they doubled UP the cars in an ef-
fort to plow through, but the tan
dem was finding about as hard sled
ding as the singles.
The telephone and electric light
companies were having battle all
their own, with the telegraph COM
pany reporting less trouble. The
Chickasha Gas and Electric COM
pany's office reported early this
morning that while their local trou
Bile was minimum, they were hav-
ing much grief on their lines to
small towns near here. The Verden
line was entirely out and workmen
were endeayoring to locate the
trouble.
The Southwestern Bell Telephone
company was struggling to keep its
toll lines in operation. Earl Alden,
manager, stated this forenoon that
there was as yet little local trouble,
but that a number of the toll lines
were out of commission. During
the morning the Oklahoma City lil\,
went out and cut off phone commu-
nication with the capital. The El
Reno line was working, but they
could not get north nor east of that
point. All lines to the west are
out, Mr.. Alden says. There was no
communication by phone with Ana
darko, Lawton and points west and
southwest, Mr.. Alden says. Duncan
and points south were being reached
by phone and men were out work
ing on the broken loops.
The Western Union reported that
all lines seemed to be in working
order out of the local office, but
that messages were late, indicating
possible trouble on other lines.
The weather forecast today prom
ised continuation of snow and
sleet with temperature Of from
eight to fourteen above predicted.
The passenger offices Of the rail-