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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1909
Page
44
New York and environs faced a severe blizzard with ten inches of snow followed by a cold wave that crippled telegraph and wire communications. A tidal surge swept the Battery as crews rushed to clear streets. rail service and shipping suffered significant delays with trains running behind schedule and hundreds of shovelers and trucks deployed to clear the heavy snowfall.
A list of death notices and funeral arrangements from December 1901 to December 1909, naming Nellie Rea, George W. Helmin, Gen Barman, Vani, Dennis, Tichlardson, Trewood, Underfuges, Matilda Richardson, Wood, and Elizabeth Frayer Wood. Includes addresses, funeral times, and interment details at Arlington, Mount Olivet, Glenwood, and Mount Auburn, with references to newspapers in Boston and New York.
Tonight reports show no trains from points west of Philadelphia since yesterday. A tidal surge at morning swept into the harbor flooding cellars and dashing over the battery wall. Two vessels were driven ashore near Staten Island quarantine station, Lizzie Dennison and a scow, later refloated but badly damaged. Three deaths in the city are blamed on the storm, with one man found in a church pew after seeking shelter. Over fifty injured by falls, the battleship Atlantic iced over at Hudson, Central Park becomes a sledding scene as cars stall.
Reported gale and tidal surge devastates coastline from Nantasket to Hull and Saugus area. Homes abandoned. Beverly communications cut. 100000 dollar property damage cited at Nantasket Beach. Waves topple a seawall at Winthrop Crest. rail and streetcar lines hindered by drift. Wires down cripple service across southeastern New England. Cap Cod gains limited wireless relief as cities plunge into darkness.
Long distance trains on Pennsylvania Baltimore and Ohio and Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroads have largely abandoned schedules in and out of Pittsburgh due to eastward storms. Trains from New York and Philadelphia are eight hours late. Over 100 passenger and freight trains are held east of Pittsburgh, and rail yards are congested. Normal service may not resume for hours or days.
Death notices list Margeral V Baker 1803 auth st mw 5 years. Charier W Bherwood 621 of st uw 70 years. Virgil Bo Plakalon 808 at no GT yeara. Bargarette Hirth 1308 ath st mw 85 years. Helos C Briggs 4415 Chapin at for M4 years. Puvel A Teal 227 2 Capitol st 25 years. Ming N Beau 20 0 t ne yeary. Maria & Jordan Providence Hospital Glyrs Elisa Lotzear 37 NY ava nw 6S Teary. Aon M Wilson 1% 85 ave nw 73 years. Charles C Wilson U8 Hat mu year. Morton GM Longhstion mw 6 ot. Mary Guilivan 4a IC at en 9 daya. Thomaa H Jones ar 410 3 xt nw 48 years. Jaman No Saundem 68 C lomo furface mw years. Notley Robinson on street sth. Rees £ 21 Washlogtes st nw 38 ye. Edward Queen 7 Temple ot aw 35 years.
Philadelphia reels under a 16 inch blizzard that halted trains and trams, delaying milk and Sunday papers. Eight Pennsylvan ia Railroad trains tied up at Frazer for hours, hundreds stranded in stations, power and weather complicate deliveries, while theatrical tours face cancellations and delays across the region.
Official Madrid reports say storms and floods ease in northwest Leon and surrounding regions. Rivers Bel and Orbige overflowed, three feet high in places, washing away hamlets. Many shepherds fled to Kestopa and endured three days without food in rain and trenches. several may have perished. King Manuel, visiting Oporto, plans to inspect the hardest hit areas.
A four car Bath Head car from Coney Island was halted by a snowdrift during a storm. About a hundred passengers rode out the nine hour delay as Brooklyn Rapid Transit crews attempted relief, but additional trains also became stuck in the snow. Passengers kept warm and endured the frigid halt.
The wind reached over seven miles per hour as waves battered the life saving station at Price's Neck during high tide near Ocean Drive. In Bristol a young man identified as Ernest Fitzgerald, previously Edward Kelly, died after his lodging and custody by Mrs Patrick Hickey in Knoxville. In Lynchburg Harry Wane, a colored youth, was shot in the hip by a city patrolman while fleeing on ordinance charges. In Charleston James Banks, a 50-year-old mine union organizer, was struck by a homepeake wagon and killed.
Mrs Adeline Belt jumped from a second story window to flee a blaze in a millinery store. Smoke filled the building after a passerby raised the alarm. She suffered a broken right ankle and lacerations. Fire destroyed the millinery shop and adjoining structures.
Special to The Washington Post Cumberland Maryland December 24 Mrs Somer Geld High was found in a helpless condition on the street near Keyser West Virginia where her husband a well known citizen Sha was taken home and later found dead in bed It is stated she had been given drugged intoxicants Her maiden name was Davy Her body was sent to Moorefield Junction West Virginia today for the treatment.
A thief broke into Swan Brothers dry goods on King and Pitt Streets Alexandria via cellar window and pipe access. He opened a cash drawer left with $100 after Christmas rush but fled without taking the larger sum. Police have no leads.
Alexandria city hall bell may not ring for the new year due to clock overhauling. Temporary grounding plans discussed for Saturday morning. Also reports of church services on Christmas day and community notices including Mra Annie Roland's death at 427 South Washington and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics set to install officers January 6 for widows and orphans fundraiser. Arboriculture exam at the Federal building to fill two vacancies in the USDA bureau.
Asheville North Carolina faces a complete water halt after a gale toppled a tree that fell on a 16 inch supply main from North Fork. Breakage occurred seven miles from town near a ravine, causing water outages noted from early morning until late afternoon. The incident left Asheville with no running water as crews investigated the cause.
Special to The Washington Post from Lynchburg Virginia reports the Rev Richey Ware, linked to an Essex county family, accepted the pastorate at First Christian Church succeeding the late Rev Frank F Bullard who died last May after fifteen years. Continuous text mentions a small boy’s tragedy and a separate interment, with scattered fragments about a Cumberland Md location.
At a Christmas celebration near Chapmans walle a fight left three men dead and others injured as alcohol-fueled chaos erupted in the dance hall. The victims were Lampeon Dingess Freeland Dingess Fredd Henson. Police and local officials pursued suspects with no immediate arrests.
A Martinsburg man, Harry G Cage, 90, died after slashing his left wrist with a razor amid a suspected lovers quarrel. Found unconscious, he was revived and stated he wished to expiate a crime he believed himself guilty of. He lived with his widowed mother and was described as un married. Friends say a quarrel with his sweetheart briefly unbalanced him.
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