Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1912 — EVERY AVAILABLE MAN [ARTICLE]

EVERY AVAILABLE MAN

In Kansas City Working to Dig City Prom Under the Snow. Kansas City. Mo., March Following the twenty-five inch snow of yesterday and last night, Kansas City fought hard and long to resume street-oar service and clear the sidewalks in the business section. Every hydrant in the city was turned loose, the water eating paths through the big. drifts, while hundreds of shovel men fed the streams from the snow on the walks in-an effort to keep basements fronj being flooded. The heavy, wet snow was shoveled off (he roofs of a number of tall buildings, where It wad feased the weight would cause a cbkepee. It was a common sight today to be warned to look out for the hurtlisfc — ~ri of snow coming from sit and eight atory roofs. ' The Olathe and Leavenworth fnterurban lines bed not been open* ed tonight. In the city car twr* ice was resumed about noon, following an all-night and forenoon battle, the thousand employes of the Metropolitan, from clerks and superintendents, manning shovels, besides 1,500 extra men employed. One car crew that was Btalled a few miles out from Independence la»t night got through only after 19 hours continuous effort. Persons leaving downtown at midnight last night did not get to their homes until « to 10 o’clock this morning. Several crews whose cars were blocked could not be rescued for 10 to 15 hours. The greatest trouble was with cars running off the track.

Kansas City seemed to be in the center of the »torm, and, while through trains from Kansas were slightly delayed, train service was not generally imparled.