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Show HEAVY SNOW f ALL, RAGING BLIZZARDS ! AND RAIN IN THE EASTERN STATES I I Seventeen Inches of Snow in Pittsburg, Where j Travel is Interrupted-Southern States Under Snow-One of Worst Storms of Winter Racing blizzards, drifting snow, rain and sleet are scouring Eastern ami Southeastern slates today. Plttlurgers are floundering through snow seventeen inches deep to reach their mills and offices, while railroad and trolley lines In that section of Pennsylvania are badly blocked. From all sections lu western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio come reports ot suspended traffic and snow-blocked highways. The 9tonu In that section Is still raging. Four Inches of enow fell in Phlla delphla during the night. Then it turned to rain, with resulting conditions condi-tions t.'iat can be Imagined. Four inches of snow also fell In New orlc city, and "Big Bill" Edwards, Ed-wards, the former Princeton guard, now street commissioner of the me. tiopoils, was getting ready his shovel and dump wagon brigade for another assault on the snow blockade when the storm ceased. Two flt-hlng vessels were victims of thi' storm's fury, both being blown ashore at Sandy Hook, and only desperate des-perate work by tho life saving men prevented the Iots of the crews of both little vessels. The storm in northwestern New York is the severest since 1RS1. "Sunny Tennessee" belles Us name There is ten Inches of snow In the vicinity of Nashville and It Is still falling. The snowfall in mlddlo and weetern Tennessee varies in depth from four to ten Inches. Seventeen Inches of Snow. Pittsburg. Feb. 12. Floundering through snow 17 Inches deep, Pitts-hurg Pitts-hurg this morning sought its mills, mines and manufactories hardly two hours after the traces of the last snow ) al! of tho winter had disappeared. A enr.w storm that Btarted at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon crippled trolley l!i:es throughout this section of tho country, delayed all their suburban tialfic.nnd made tho city streets, well iiih impns8able. From almost every community in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, nnd eastern Ohio, reports of suspended taiffle and snow blocked hlghwejs came In today. Although the storm let up early today, to-day, the weather bureau predicted that thero was considerable more to come. Tho precipitation Is already the greatest since December 17, 19'), i when 22 inches was recorded. I I |