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Bethlehem, PA Blizzard, Dec 1909
Posted September 14th, 2008 by Jenni Lanham
Blizzard bound in Bethlehems
Special to The Inquirer.
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Dec. 27. – The Bethlehems were today still blizzard-bound, with business conditions thoroughly paralyzed. Along the lines of the Lehigh Valley Transit Company more than twenty-five cars are hopelessly snowed in. The Blue Ridge, Slate Belt, South Bethlehem and Saucon trolley companies are totally tied up. The Lehigh Valley Railroad finds it necessary to use two engines to move trains.
The North Penn branch of the Philadelphia and Reading has succeeded in getting one track open between here and Philadelphia, and several hundred men are employed in cutting away the huge drifts that heap the other track. Near Sellersville four large locomotives were stuck in drifts. Four trains from Philadelphia were tied up at Lansdale all night. Several theatre parties from here who went to Allentown on Christmas night were forced to spend the night in stalled trolley cars.
Dairymen took to the fields to bring milk to town.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA 28 Dec 1909
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Transcribed by Jenni Lanham.
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