New Britain herald., 1924-02-20
NEW YORK IN GRIP
 OF OLD STORM KING
Today's Is Most Serious Of Winter Traffic Badly Hampered !,
PITTSBURGH IS HARD HIT
Ten Inches of Snow Falls At Clean N. Y.-Weather Man Warns Dis turbance Will Continue For Many Hours.

New York, Feb. 20.--A stingine seet storm rode over the city early today on the wings of a half gale, turning the soft snow blanket that had been spread throughout the night into watery slush that made streets and sidewalks uncomfortable and rather dangerous places, and i'm peded, for time, surface and eleNat- ed traffic.
 1t was the winters most serious storm for the metropolitan district. Ii came on the heels of three-day cold spell that had the thermometer down to less than 20 above zero, which, in turn. had succeeded q stretch Of almost spring-like weather.
 Warned by the weather bureau that the storm would be of many hours duration the city's snow clearing forces and equipment were on the streets little more than hour after the first snow furrics. Four hundred snow blows. u battery of mechanical sweep rS and 2.ooo men worked throughout the night. At o'clock this morning i4,00o men attacked the job concentrating on the streets in which traffic was heaviest
 Traffic Ls ImpesIed
 Tho storm, sweeping eastward from Ohio, caused a number Of passenger train delays and hampercd freight movements, railroad officials reported.
 Highway traffic is practically par alyzed and railroads are maintaining service with difficulty as a result oi the worst snowstorm of the winter in southern New York counties. Five inches Of snow fell during tho night.
 SIX inches Of snow fell overnight at Binghamton with in dications it woult exceed ten inches. Street ear serp- ice was crippled badly.
 The storm caused delay to passen- ger train service on the St. Lawrence division Of the New York Central railroad and bus service was practi- calIy abandoned. Nine inches Of snow f,ll nt Natertown.
 10 Inches of snow
 oiean experienced tho everest storm Of the winter ast night and today. Ten inches of snow fell and traing and mtcrurban trolley sarsice
 
 Wires Are AfYc,tcJ
 The telegraph companies seemed hardest hit by the storm, which. re- ports to wire chiefs said. was severe over the entire cast' Cumberland nnd Grafton, W. Na., it was reported. were isolated, while towns within a radius roughly marked out by Wheeling. Pittsburgh and Cuinber- lund were in many instances without wire service.
 Financial houses found their wires seriously restricted. and cominunica- ton with tho south and west was didicult. Some of the leading broker age firms said they had rery limited communication with Chicago and al- most no wires tu Florida. I,rooki,D Man Killed
 one death attributed to the storm was reported by the police. Joseph Sanders was beating his way against tlie rain in Brooklyn when a motor truck struck and killed him.
 The 40 foot steam launch that has served for IS years as ferry between New Rochelle and Fort Slocum was brown upon the breakwater at New Rochelle during the worst Of the blizzard last night. Her skipper. Captain Leonard Clapp. swan al quarter Of a mile to Glen Island through the heavy seas and then walked a mile along the shore in search of boat to bring him to the mainland. His clothes, frozen, had | to be cut from him when he reached , home.