Show I I BALTIMORE S THE I STORM CENTER Efla Thousands of Persons on Their Way to Witness Taft Inauguration Inauguration Snowbound 0 Baltimore March 4 The storm of last night and early today seemed to cent cente In Baltimore and vicinity The train sen service service ice was crippled so so that a great crowd of persons from Philadelphia New ew YoK and other othe cities clUes were stranded at th the railroad stations unable to proceed to IT t capital This condition was due chiefly to the blowing blowin down of the telegraph and telephone wires along the railroad tracks Snowdrifts also made traffic particularly difficult between Baltimore and Washington Wash Washington ash ashington ington and other sections within a radius of miles of the city At 5 a am am am m trains were wece stalled Itan d be between b between tween Baltimore and Washington Wrecking gangs were hurried out with the result that by noon the tracks were cleared up enough to permit slow fic tic ficA ticA A single emergency wire was strung in m man inan inan an effort to get the city in communication tion with the outside world One of the first trains to reach the Union station s of the Pennsylvania rail rall railroad railroad road was the Colonial Express between Washington and Boston This train left Washington several evera hours after the th sched shed scheduled time a m and arrived In Bal Baltimore at 1 In the afternoon m nearly arly five hours late It was WaK crowded with Philadelphians New ew Yorkers and others who decided to start for their homes rather than run the risk of being snowbound in the capital city over night Two persons at least are arc known to have hae perished as a result of the storm These were Policeman Thomas Worthington and Miss Marguerite who were el ele v by br b coming in contact with fall j live wires |