The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-10
NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS.

NLVOl AZ IJh AOOOONxC
SEVERE wLAIBLR AT PHlLADELPHIA-raE della.
WARE RIVER CLvsED-THE RAILROAD TRAINS
sTOPPKD.
[rrom the Philadelphia Bulletin, jan 81
The weatLer has become Intensely c0id the wind BILE
stror gy from the northwest In tho afternoon and
light Continued TO increase the cold keeping pace with
~ and bringing tie mercury down rapidly BY IL O'Clock
the .heImo meter Indicated
The delaware is completely closed up this morning
ana the ice boats succeed in breaking up,
TX, ting ill be excellent vast elos OF Gle
smooth ice opposiJe the city.
We have hear0 OF . number OF persons who ha their
hancs eet and ears frozen during the night and
morning. Some Of the police who duty through
The night describe the cold the they ever
experienced Some Of them haa their extremies npped
The mercury was lower In Philadelphia this morning.
than 1t has for many years. the Goth Janu-
ary, lte2, the thermometer was "a below On
h Of February, l6c6, the thermometer We
we cmber that day. 1t was the only occasion last
winter upon which the mercury got down to zero.
ed At O'Clock this morning stood hsfs Degree
below zero. At O'Clock, in Marshall street, Pop
lar The mercury degrees below At the Twen-
at o'oe ck this morning, the thermometer which was
exposed to the wind, stood As degrees below
three trains en- tae Camden and Amooy Railroad,
which eft New York last evening, have reached this
city at the ,me Of wiring IN O'Clock A. N.Y. The ast
.nigrans uain, left just before 6P. NJ, and expe
enced difculty but succeeded in forcing its way
tblorgh te Coopers Crees, few miles above Camden
where 1t became inexticably stuck drift OF rreat
ceph about Two O'clock this morning. The second was
M.
ibis tfsn came through IS Tar Trenton during the
Bh and there coupled with the passenger which iefs
1be two united trains then as Cooper
Creek wh.Ie tie emgi ant train then "a O'Clock A.
NJ tsst In the snow, and Of unable to 20
any further.
iiolna sent to Camden as quickly AZ possihle
and two locomotives sent to the assistance of the
belesguercd trains, but they also became "stuck''
before reaching the Creek where they med during
he night Information was received at the
tsmsen depot Of this state Of affairs slegns were pre-
children brought downthe male por ton Of the passen.
gers generally being forced TO walk. The most of the
gers arrived in Camden and brought across
the delaware by 10 O'Clock A. N.
1he New York mail brought by the O'Clock train was
not sent with the there being
tons of it, and convey snces being in demand.
We are informed that mails from the south or Wost
d,e here last evening, have arrived at 12M.
The trains for New York and the East as we'll as those
very conssde, able accumulation Of mali matter in our
Post Office In consequence. The mail for the West left
this morning at the regular hour
THE WEATHER AT NEWARK, MI
[Frm the Daily Advertiser, Jan. Q1
During the present winter we have experienced
such colo fet here nant and eary this
morr ing The day promised to be a. could
be desred but ate In the afternoon the thermometer
te rapidly and during the night reached In one part OF
the city, Sdeg. below zero; in another deg and in
snother, 10 deg these rep rts to relied upon
lsst night colder Than the memorable 7th Of
February last which WAS at the time. said TO be the
coldest weather felt here snce the year 1850.
Ihe cold 30 intense this morning, that pupr In
one Of schools Who left her heme the over part
Of the city, but thiny oad without the knowledge OF
her parents, became cold that entering a warm
room, the ainted away and was thrown into spssms
he doing better this afternoon Parents should be
careful to cothe their children warmly.
STATE OF THE WEATHER AT rHs EASTWARD.
from the boston Daily Mail, Jan. 9l
The weather Of yesterday had . most eoftaniue and
setting influence upon the huge piles OF snow a6 town
much TO the qualification of our citizens and par
ticularly appreciated by tho housekeepers f6b had
found themscvcs cablned, cribbed, confined Ana
bemmed In all sides by banks which REFUSED
to discount except TO the most vigorous shoveInr
The day was most mild and clear and 70 sares
night there was some indication Of ran-e visi
taion which We hope viii be averted for the present
sunrise YESTERDAY the thermometer stool In this cty
at 2s deges. At noon II ut s32 degrees lust the
freezing point and at O'clock the mercury had fallen
10 rs degrees
1he Thermometer WAS degrees below zero at woburn
and degrees below at Springfield yesterday mornins
AZ worcester the mercury stood on MONDAY at DEGREES
below zero. In ether Weetern 1t fell Al low ss Ia
and 20 degrees
AT New Bedford the storm severe, that su the
churches remsintd cloeed during the day.
IN fTovderce the orifts 10 great that the good
people could not get To Worship Even they oou have
oied their the streets the churches vere
not ortted in the morning. Communca ion was broken
up in all directions.
Az Hoimes Role le sGrl brought the highest tide