Show f 1 ii t-j t n 4 H U A n nAll All AUS I IR Swollen Streams Flow Into Cities and Halt Operation rati n of Industry rid try Residents Marooned P PLAD LAD L I i Pa Freezing Freezing- g gIt It temperatures l pera tres l w which came on Js a aI raging fag snow m Z f l x am m I s. s m Hv rc c e expected to ch check th the t la t ri nigh gh broke ro e over eastern Pem and Delaware Delaware Dela Dela- I ware ware causing h heavy a y diun damage ge and driving driving ing many persons person tro from their ho s. s The storm which which- raged from 8 3 I o'clock last night night until until shortly before daylight was on one of the most severe of ot the winter wilter Snow piled up and andI tr trolley service was at a standstill I WRECKED BY BV IC IC GORGES Virtually every stream near i erl overflowed its bankst and ice go gorges eg swept away bridges and railroad tracks Scores of ot houses along the banks of- of the swollen streams were washed away and many mills tories had haa to shut down because of or flooded 15 boiler n r rooms Men women and children marooned In their homes homell w were re in boats some of them being taken from second stor story window win dow A TOWNS INUNDATED Towns along the and Susquehanna Sus- Sus rivers appeared to tobe be th heaviest sufferers i Reading Lan ter Harrisburg and Barre Wilkes report eavy damage Parts of these towns were Inundated and much of the surrounding lowland I w was s under water CLOSED I All All industries usIng electric elec elec- power clos closed d d down w J Bridges and Bridges Bridges' and houses were swept away at Lancaster All streams ms in the the Wyoming Wy ming overflowed and sections o of B Wilkes Barre and suburban towns town were vere under Water At South Wilkes Wilkes- Barre all an traffic except boats was Suspended and scores of families were wera marooned maroon d In The p pump pump- i station tation at Allentown was flooded and the city was without water for forI I several hours The Lehigh river was wasi i packed with ice ice and the bridges bridge at ati i B Bethlehem th were closed throughout the night Refugees spent the h nl at firehouses fire fire- houses and an police stations in n WIl P ton NEW YORK HARD HIT I YORK Ma March h 6 The The storm storm king Icing paid another another- unwelcome visit to New York City today Just as the city I was c to recover from the effects of ot the bUzzard blizzard of n rL I month ago arid and within twelve hours th the metropolis struggled with a peltIng peltIng pelt pelt- I Ing rain a driving and a biting In the early morning morn morn- ing the wind had reached an unofficial velocity of sixty miles mUe an hour houI which bodes ilI for shipping g oft ott the coast I ROADS WASHED WASHED OUT I II I The comparatively warm r rAIn ln vms VA 1 at first wel welcomed b by the street tr et department de Cle I the tall fall washed some f the Icy relics of ot X But soon sewers were clogged cellars were flooded final Email streams ms In inthe the outlying ing sect sections ns overflowed over o flowed their banks roads were out and high tides tidE's contributed to damage along the w Thousands Thousands Thou Thou- sands of emergency calls were re received reo I by the water department The sleet and drifting snow made successful attacks on Uon system Service on nearly all the Ue trolley lines in Manhattan and on some of- of the elevated lines was crIppled SCORES OF WINDOWS BROKEN The rising wind whistled whistled through h the canyons of ot narrow streets in the skyscraper rap r ls c district rl t making walking w well WE'll nigh os im impossible It loosened signs toppled chimneys here and there and smashed great windows in fashionable shops hops along alon Continued on page vage 2 It HOUSE AND RAILROADS Continued fr wt page 1 1 j f Fifth avenue causing t thousands thousands' of dollars dollars' damage l Th The telephone and telegraph ph cpin cpm cpm- panics report reported d that wire communication cation out of the city city was badly crippled S S BLIZZARD BIZZARD l H DENVER i. i S DENVER March 6 Driven G.-Driven Driven by by bya a mile forty gale a a. blizzard swept down out of ot the north last night comin coming from Cheyenne to Denver in t two o hours and extending in a sou south h j and easterly direction from here The storm was accompanied by a severe i dron drop In temperature S I S A drop of ot 14 14 degrees in temperature w within thin half hall an ho hour r gave Cheyenne WyO a zero atmosphere atmosphere- at o'clock At 8 30 the storm had reached Denver and nd by midnight had swept s south uth to Colorado Springs Palmer Lake and and east to Sterling and Akron S Colo Leadville reported a snowfall starting at 6 ocl o'clock Cl Three inches of snow had fallen at Greeley at last re reports reports re- re reports ports and was was was' drifting rapidly Southwestern Southwest rn Colorado which had been isolated by st storms for several days was out of the path of t the storm storm the storm area being confined largely to the country east of ot the mountains mountain GOLD EST SINCE 1906 Light snow was falling here early today but the local weather bureau declared the storm in Colorado was pr practically over and predicted fairweather fair fairweather weather and higher temperatures for tor tonight and Sunday The lowest tem tern temperature temperature was 3 degrees below zero zero th the lowest for March l since 1906 SNOW AND COLD IN MONTANA HELENA Mont March 6 Snow wind and below iero kero ero temperatures were were reported in In Inthe the portion of ot Mon Mon- Montana tana ana east of the Rocky m mountains last night Traffic on roads leading to Bozeman Mont was impeded by deep S snow S 34 BELOW IN MONTANA B BILLINGS Mont Mon Mont MatcH MarcH 6 A A drop of ot 33 de degrees rees in about twelve lio hours rs established a new record for tor Billings last night At 6 o'clock last night the thermometer stood at 1 I below zero and reached its lowest point at 7 today when 34 below was registered 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