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Show EAST COVERED BY DEEP SNOW Trains and Street Cars Tied Up; Gales Sweep Atlan- I tie Ports WASHINGTON. Jan. 28 More than 84 hours of continuous snow tonight had covered the middle Atlantic soc-! tlon with Washington as a center, to a depth of from a foot to nearly 30 inches, caused suspension of practt-I call all buslneas, disrupted transpor- 1 tatlon and shut most of the popula- I ;tlon in their homes. Tho storm, which weather bureau Officials sal'i was ono of the most se-Vers se-Vers In history and exceeded In the I depth of snowfall only by the blizzard of February, 1899: wo moving slow-j ly up tho coast tonight from its posl-tlon posl-tlon during the day, off Virginia. RoportB to the weather bureau showed the Carollnas. Virginia. Maryland, Mary-land, Delaware and 'he District of Columbia Col-umbia were bearing the brunt of tho storm. AUTOS ABANDONED Washington, however, appeared, to be the center of the heavy fall, the weather bureau measurements showing show-ing tho depth to bo closely .approaching .approach-ing two and a half feet, against the record fall of three feet in 1899. Activities Ac-tivities of all kinds virtually were par-alyzed par-alyzed in the capital. The city awoke nowed-in this morning and was unable un-able to cope during the day with the rapidly descending fall, Street cars on th principal lines stopped late in the day. Automobiles and other motor vehicles ve-hicles likewise were unable to cope with tho snow and tonight the streets were lined with abandoned cars. VESSELS EN DISTRESS Train service between Washington and the out.ldo world practically was suspended from last night until early 1 1 I ;i Snow fighting apparatus was brought into play soon after daybreak, and Intermittent scrWce was maintained maintain-ed Many trains, e-speclally those from the south, were annulled and al! of those ,-trrlvlnjr were hours late. While Washington was battling with sn.iw Norfolk, Newport News and Portsmouth. Va.. Atlantic City. .V W Jersey and other coast cities wore be-ln be-ln swept ly the gales Shipping was forced to seek shelter and reports of vessels In distress came from many j ports The downtown business set tlon of Norfolk w.is flooded by high tides; and traffic police were compelled to work In hip boots WAREHOUSES COLIAPSE Three large tobacco warehouses at Danville, Va.. collapsed under tho weight of :mow All other warehouses there were ordered closed. Reports from Richmond were that the snowfall thero of approximately two feet was the heaviest in 23 years and had tlod up etrcot car traffic. The area of nnwfall uns c roping slowly northward and tonight was rem hlng into New England. Indications were that tho snow 1 would cease In Washington and icln-; lty during tho night, weather bureau officials said, and be succeeded by partly cloudy weather with temperatures tempera-tures belo freezing. Many passenger trains of southern llne: operating out of Washington Were .stalled tonight between here and Al.-x.indria Ya . railroad officials announcing an-nouncing an almost complete tleup SNOW SAVES WOMAN PHILADELPHIA Jan 28. With a six-Inch depth recorded by the local weather bureau at 6 o'clock the snow continued to fall In the Philadelphia vicinity Traffic has been hard hit Only one train has reached Philadelphia from Washington today, while the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad officials reported more than 200 Pullman cars tied up between be-tween here and Norfolk, Va. ah shipping in the Philadelphia port likewise has been tied up. No vessels were moving in or out of the harbor. The blizzard possibly Saved one woman's wo-man's life today While cooking dinner. din-ner. Mrs. Beatrice Bobber's clothing caught fire. A neighbor sounded an alarm and tho firemen arrived as the woman ran Into the street They rolled her in a snowdrift and then rushed her to a hospital. SHIPPING JEOPARDIZED NORFOLK, Va.. Jan. 28 Heavy seas w hipped by a gale of high velocity veloc-ity and accompanied by snow, jeopardized jeopar-dized shipping all along tho Virginia and North Carolina coast today and tonight the storm continued unabated. Cape Henry weather bureau recorded record-ed the wind velocity there at 5 4 miles an hour. Only a few Bhlps ventured out frlm this port Reports of distress of varying degrees de-grees came from all directions by wire-l wire-l m though no vessel was reported in a precarious position 15.000 S1I( EL SNOW NEW YHK. Jan. 28. New York City was gripped by a blizzard tonight that swept up fro mthfl Virginia capes and spread into New England states. While the middle Atlantic states began to dig themselves out of the worst snowstorm since 1899 preparations were made to keep the streets as cJear as possible and traffic open, In expectation expec-tation of a foot fail of snow within a dozen hours A stinging wind brought the snow to New York A dozen big liners and 45 freighters were slowly making their way to port here. Thousands of passengers were tem-porarllv tem-porarllv stranded, owing to crippled railway transportation to points south. Railway traffic both in and out of New York southward was badly disorganized. disor-ganized. The blizzard was a blessing to many Jobless here. 156.000 being enrolled to shovel snow. 00 |