1909 DECEMBER SNOW

HISTORY

1909 DECEMBER SNOW STORM

Monday, December 27, 1909, Wilmington Morning News;

Wilmington is in the grips of the worst snow storm of many years,

probably the 1888 March snow storm. It started Saturday morning

and did not abate until Sunday at noon and was not considered a blizzard,

only a severe snow storm, however, railroads are blocked, street cars

stalled all over the city, and walking is next to impossible. Wire are

down, alarms are off, few telephone working, Wilmington is isolated

and it may take a week to get back to normal.

The street car company has hired all the labors it can find to clear their

tracks. The railroad rain are stalled a few miles out of town, with out

food, caught up in giant snow banks.

Steam boats are running between here and Philadlephia with the Wilson

Line in operation after noon Sunday as the snow was so heavy the pilots

could not see the river at times.

There were 15 inches of snow with wind drifting snow in huge piles and

freezing temperatures cause problems to remove them .

Abstract: Wilmington Morning News, December 27, 1909