Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1910 — INDIANAPOLIS BLOCKADED WITH SNOW. [ARTICLE]

INDIANAPOLIS BLOCKADED WITH SNOW.

Worst Storm in Three Years ?led Up Street Cars and kept Many From Reaching Their Homes. While Rensselaer got only about two or three inches of snow Wednesday afternoon and night, Indianapolis and the surrounding country had a fall of 9 inches, which drifted and blockaded the streets, stopping the cars from running for several hours and preventing many people who had left their homes in the evening from getting back. A force of 100 men with 33 snowfighting machines worked all night to clear the streets so that cars could run and theatre crowds either waited or walked. There was a great demand for cabs but cabmen fihally refused to make the' trips in consideration of their exhausted horses/ The interurban lines were forced to abandon, schedules and on top of all the trouble the weather man prophesied zero temperature. Trains from the south were late getting to Rensselaer owing to the difficulty they had in plowing through the snow drifts. The Star says the storm is the worst Indianapolis has had in three years. In Rensselaer and vicinity very little snow fell until about 4'o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Then it came down briskly for some time. But little if any over two inches fell during the afternoon and night and the cold wavq did not arrive as forecasted. Today flurries of light snow have fallen and the prospects of much , more seem quite certain. The weatherman forecasts more snow tonight and tomorrow and we may get within the next 24 hours what we failed to get Wednesday.