Raleigh, Jan. 28—Three hundred maintenance gangs were ordered out by Frank Page, highway commissioner for North Carolina, yesterday afternoon with instructions to remove the snow from 6,000 miles of roads in the State highway system before a thaw sets in. The work is being done with road plows attached to tractors and motor trucks and was progressing satisfactorily at nightfall. Snow which began falling in every section of the State early Thursday night and reported a general average of 12 inches before the storm was lifted yesterday afternoon. In Oxford a fall of 24 inches was reported. No damage has been reported from any place in the State, more serious than crippled trolley service and occasional breaks in telephone and telegraph communications.
The storm reached as far east as the Atlantic Ocean and as far south as Georgia, and westward to the Mississippi River, according to reports reaching here. In the southern section of the State, and upper South Carolina, the heaviest damages were reported. In that section sleet fell heavily, doing some damage to wires and transmission lines. Warmer weather is forecast for today, with rains in the east sections.
From The Charlotte News, Saturday, Jan. 28, 1922
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