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Show HEM SI0W BLOCKS ALL EASTERN TRAFFIC I PHILADELPHIA. Jan. Due to the j biggest snowstorm of the winter, the tie-up tie-up on the Pennsylvania Is said by railroad officials to be the woir in years. Outbound Out-bound service from Philadelphia lias pra.tmaily been atinuilr-d. Six of the Pennsylvania's :ast through trains wre stalled in the mountains. Fnr are indefinitely in-definitely tid up at .Vltoona. Several trains both wa s between New York and Philadelphia crf annulle-i. At noon all nssener pervlee from New York, Philrf'it-lphia, Raitimore and Wash-i Wash-i tig ton to the west was suspended. Officials Of-ficials said it was impossible to operate out of the big terminus at Broad street station because of frozen switches, which mainly brought about the tie-up of the entire system. NEW YORK. Jan. Freight service in the anthracite regions has been entire- i lv stopped bv the storm, according t a I statement today by A. H. Smith, regional director of raiirouds. NEW YORK, Jan. 2?. Six to eight inches of snow had fallen between 2 and 3:10 a. m. Although there is a full sap- plv vi cars at the mines,, the loading is ; hampered and men are being sought to : Cjear the tracks. Ail along the lines of the New York Central railroad system havy snow was falling today, but up to early this afternoon after-noon freight was still moving. Passenger Passen-ger t rain 3. however, are arriving from two to three hours late. NKW YOI1K, J ui. 2S. Coal movemrn'.s w"re checked, freight congestion Intensified Intensi-fied and street trait o badly liampd by a sTiowsti'rm of Mizzird threatening proportions pro-portions w hie!) si i k New York tod:iy ai'd gave prospect of continuing. Reports, from upstate told of low temperatures. CHICAGO. Jan. CS. Light Fnow fell In this region d'lriim most of last night atid. a '-cording to the weather forecast, another an-other storm is handed in this direction from the sot; t invest toda y. Should the snowfall be heavy, us the woatlmr bureau predict?, railway ofricials fear the iiiovp-inni iiiovp-inni of cal arid f'-1 supplies will again be seriously hampered, just as the ra li-roads li-roads had practi-ally recovered from the blockade caused by the heavy snows of thf lust two weeks. Although about fmir Inches of snow has fallen since Saturday, the railroads today pur back into service a number of trains which had been annulled, and while man..' trains arrived behind schcdnlo, passenger traffic was cvoectrd to become somewhat nar normal before night, provide.) a further fur-ther snowfail docs not interfere with plans of the operating officials. W STIlNOTON. Jan. ?fi. Indus! rhd and "railwav renters of the east, unaf-ffc-cd hv the fuel administration's weekly j earless" Moudav order, were forced to I 4w down their important war operations ! tiav by a snowfall which in some sec-' sec-' tionn was heavy. I indications were that the spow would i continue Tuesdav from the lake region 1 outward and the worst tie-up ol railway triPi'' of 'he winter was in prospect, should the weather bureau's prediction be f ilft"ed - T-ow- temperatures east of the Ko-kv mountains. There will be hu;e -iiaie today or tomorrow from -the Ohio val'ev eastward, but through tuo soutn a cold wave I? to.-rvast. rea.-hing the I - oast as far south as northern Honda ' by Tuesday. 1 |