| Show RAIN I AND O SLEET HAVE rl PLAYED t HAVOC L With Transportation Facilities And Telegraph Service In la laNew New York CITY IS LIKE A SKATING POND Strikes the Southwest Spread Spreading SpreadIng ing lug Over Oler Missouri Nebraska HUll Kan SitS BOS Iowa and anil Oklahoma NIl York Deo and sleet following the tIme heavy snowstorm have play l with transportation fa tnt duties and rind the time telegraph tle on top of the mow Inow covered pavements pavement J and stud sidewalks the rain ha h has a 1 hard cru crust t of Ice lee anti and New Nw NewYork NewYork York today toda wa was 01 like n R great skating pond ond The rails rail of ot the surface oars car carand and elevated tracks track were tere ere so 10 slippery thia no effort wa nit 11 made to keep any aimy thing think like II It schedule time The suburban trolley lines were almost paralysed but trains were tern er late on every ery line Una How Itow badly lib thib U k raph amid telephone wired I have hll been t rippled could not b be esti estimated stI mated early cathy today Jill All through the east put told and In Pennsylvania the lie wires are coated with lc Ice and suit the lie extra weight has 1118 broken brokell many man of ot them item In III addition to the lie delay caused by hy sheet fleet the time congested traffic rattle of the upper harbor amid the North antI and East rivers river crowded with ferry terry boats bOOI waa tusa 18 ham halll hampered pared by n mu fog Cog so 10 o dense that It was 1118 still 1111 almost t dArk at fit a m mu and lind ferry boats bringing the thousands of ot pee peo people pie employed In Iii this city from Jersey City and anI picked their way slowly from toni slip to slip III In constant danger of ot collision No serious ace I dents den Is were reported I STORM IN Philadelphia Dec l tc of ever eser start sort In lila city elly was wall badly bartl hampered during the thi th early ay hours today by b a dense dene fog hun JIlin fell during the night A henvy hell thaw thal resulted and anti this thill following the this two days duya and n R half bait of ot snowfall converted the streets Into rivulets Train servIce was wall Irregular IN SOUTHWEST Kunsa City Dec Dc portion of ot the southwest today was In iii the grasp ROUP of a genuine blizzard trie It tie first nUl severe leverl cold lOld weather of ot the winter It extended extend through Missouri Into Nebraska nut and Iowa over oer the IhA whole hole of ot Kansas ansas Rn In to Oklahoma Oklahoman and arid Indian territory Snow tell fell to a depth of oC nearly n Il toot foot and AnI driven by lr a II high wind drifted badly tJ Street car traffic In Kanan City was wa demoralIzed while railway trains In III ovary every direction were war delayed timid wine some stalled At some Int points particularly north of ot City In iii Iowa and telephone and anti telegraph wires wire were we rendered useless by b elect leet and ud for tor or many hours communication north of St Jo Josoph Josephi soph ph Into thou those states state was waa Impossible Impo Tho Jho thermometer wa was close to 10 the Ibl aero acre i mark showing allowing a Il tall fall In temperature utica since midnight of 11 degree ami AtHI a tail fall within 14 21 I hours of ot U H degree More 10 snow allow with n fI continued tall fall In tempera tore lure waa wa as predicted mOUND AROUND TOI KA Topeka nee flee storm which began h can hero here last lUt night hat has M u the proportions of ot a blizzard amid RM the temperature Is tl at zero with witha a R strong wind tImid blowing which drifts the snow nov badly Street railway trot fib fic is practically and east hound trains are arc late lato on all time the th mil null toads roads received r here at the tho weather bureau headquarters and al at t the lie th general om attires a of the raIlroads railroad Indi hidi Indicate rate cate that thai the storm extends lends to All nil por IlOr portion lion hone of Kansas The Th Santa Fe claims that lint telegraph wires wired are working bitt the Hock Hk Island Iland I Is having much trou lIe ble bl with telegraph wires Only one aile wire vine Is III working no as tar far west nn M Bering Hering ton and at nt 9 I this morning com corn communication with tho the southwest sou I hl lino end tho the northwest line to Colorado was waa almost ahn sL completely shut off ore oreT AT T WICHITA Wichita KM JM Dee Deo nr first t real reat |
