American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-02-23
The weather and It's Effects.

Wtnter on Lake SnPertOr.-Tho sea-
son has been very severe ct tho coppef
Nines Of lake Superior. A letter from
Eagle River to tho Cleveland Herald
says that in tho woods the snow lies
from four to five feet deep, so that with
out snow-shoes the labor Of getting thro'
i prostt ates the unfortunate traveller.
Several cases have occurred Of sober and
stout men having become bewildered in
sight of houses and barely escaped a
horrible death. A large quantity of
provisions for Ontonagon having been
left at Copper Harbor by the steamboats,
eighty miles from its destination, the
people ofOntonagon attempted to reach
it; but after four days and nights of
hard work the party had to give up the
effort without having made any sensi-
BILE progress. The people fOntonagon
have also lost fine schooner, purchas-
ed by them TO be sent for their auppl;es
after the steamers had stopped running.
She ran upon c rock in snow squall.
The presnt winter is the severest ever
known in that region.
Moral influence Of tie Cold.-The
louisville Journal of the 9Th inst, says:
The cold weather has certainly
great moral influence. We heard at
The Jail last night that not solitary ar
rest had been made since Friday night.
Effects Of The Sno,o and Cold-Amfut
Account.-We copy the following very
lucid paragraph. detailing the awful eff
fects of the cold weather on whom the
account designates as "they," from the
Buffalo Republic: We hear of a horri-
BILE case of freezing to death, which our
informant states occurred on the Mag.
ara Falls Railroad, three or four miles
above Tonawanda. They had been
sent out to shovel off the track. The
snow drifted up the track almost as fast
as 1t was shoveled away. Becoming
very cold they attempted to return, and
became closed in by the dfifts, and
when an engine, which had been sent
out, came in the vicinity, they were
found stark and stiff We obtained tho
above information from good authority.
Boats Laid up at NeO ORLEANS. There
are thirty six steamboats, belonging to
the Mississippi and its tributaries laid
up at New Orleans on account of the
ice which blocks up the river.
Potatoes. freezing in Teras.-A house
IN Boston, which lately shipped lot of
potatoes to Galveston, Texas, has re-
ceived advices that there are no ware
houses at that place to protect them
from freezing
| The San Antonia Texan ofthe gath
ult says :"Our cold weather sill contin.
ues, and it has lasted thirty two days,
during which time the thermometer has
been as low as the freezing point each
day, and as low as IA degrees below the
freezing point.
DEATH. from Fliesing.-A missionary
of the American Sunday School Union
in Iowa. writes that during the intense.
ly cold season many persons have lost
their lives in attempts to cross the prai-
ries. Recently family in Mitchell coun-
ty, consisting of father, mother four sons
and daughter, met this tragic fate.-
They lost their way, the cold was ex-
tremc, and after wandering about awhile
they sank down in the sleep of death.
IHa,Ding out Cows.-Somo one in
the neighborhood of Cleveland tells the
Herald an almost incredible story in re.
lation to the cold weather of the 9th inst.
| He says "it is so cold that the cows had
to be driven into the house to thaw their
bags before milking"
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