Show SNOW IN PENNSYLVANIA Jour Inches of the Beautiful i the Region of Philadelphia Philadelphia Dec LThe snow and windstorm which swept over the eastern east-ern part ot Pennsylvania during the morning abated late this afternoon The fall of snow in this city > and surrounding surround-ing country amounted lo about four I Inches but the greatest damage was done by the high wind which at 1 oclock attained a velocity of fiftyfour miles an hour Telegraph communication communica-tion between this city and Pitlsburg was practically paralyzed and suburban street car and railroad traffic was badly l crippled During the height of the storm George Cheverton drove an express wagon Inlo a trolley car and was Instantly killed and two persons received fractured limbs by the collision of two trolley > cars In West Philadelphia In the anthracite coal region the fall of snow amounted to eight Inches hut mining operations were not seriously Interfered < with Tho only shipping disaster of moment mo-ment reported to the maritime exchange ex-change was the sinking of the three muslcd schooner Virginia Union at As laecuc Va about fifty miles below the Delaware breakwater |