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Lima Daily News
Feb 18, 1910 Blizzard Hits Buckeye State Snow Record is Broken at Many Points Traffic is Demoralized Columbus, O., Feb. 18 - Throttling the activities of Columbus with its icelike grip, the blizzard that tore relentlessly across Ohio, burying everything in a freezing mantle of unwelcome snow 14.9 inches deep, broke all records for snow, tied up traffic of all sorts for hours together, paralyzed trade, stunted pleasures and condemned in many cases, unknown numbers to many hours in chily traction cars or the doubful convienience of overcrowded farmhouses, only to be reached by toiling wearly and onfoot through hi-drifts, [piled high in many locatilies. Some passengers of traction cars were held in the country throught the night. Interarbarr traffic to and from the city has practically ceased. Cars could not be located and the officers weer without knowledge of the name or numbers of persons who, attemping to travel, found themselves snowbound in removte spots, unable to get forward or backward and compelled by that fact to spend the night in homes near by, which inmany cases could ill accommodate those needing assisstance. Steam trains were from one to six hours late. Lima Daily News
Cincinnati, O., Feb. 18. - Cincinnati lies
under a blanket of snowFeb 18, 1910 Cincinnati Man Freezes which is the heaviest fall recorded in 25 years. The wnow has been falling for 24 hours and reached a depth of from 18 to 20 inches. The first tragedy of the storm came when Herman HAVERKAMP of this city was found unconscious in a drift at Twelfth and Vine streets. He died. |