The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-01-07

The Mississippi is frozen perfectly solid to
its junction with the Ohio, and Birds Point
is accessible only to pedestrians Skating Is
excellent on the Mississippi.
There is nothing later from Gen Smith.
The War Eagle lays three miles beyond
| Dresden.
The cold weather is not untavorable to the
celebrity of movement.
CLEVELAND Jan. 2, 1864
The cold came on with the New Year. Du-
ring the past forty-eight hours the thermom-
eter has ranged from six to twelve degrees
| below zero. One of the most bitter northwest
winds ever known in this locality prevailed
all day yesterdays and last night several cases
Of death from freezing are reported The
trains have been generally behind in conse-
quence of the freezing up Of the locomotives.
| manufacturers were unable to commence OPP
rations before noon to-day; in short, every
thing capable has been thoroughly CONCEALED.
There has been no snow, and tonight the
weather is much more moderate.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 2 1854.
Dec. 2lst it rained all day At night the
wind rose, and at II o'clock it began to freeze
At daylight Oh New Years it was intensely
cold and windy. 1t has continued so with
out change since. The thermometer stood
at eight degrees below zero this morning. at
I o'clock Trains are behind time but no &C
cidcnt has occurred. Thereare no reliable re-
ports of the loss of life, though many are bad
| y frozen, and there is much suffering.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 3, 1868.
! The thermometer fell i'll six hours on Mon
day night forty-nine above to twelve below
zero 1t was intensely cold Oh Friday Sat
urday moderate and this evening the mercu-
ry is 20 degrees above zero 1t had been
showing slightly this afternoon, but the lndl-
cations now are that it will rain tomorrow.
There has been no snow to impede railroads,
but the intense cold rendered operations I'M
practicable and business is as good as suS-
pended. Trains that attempted to run en-
countered broken rails, and several accidents
occurred on the Dayton and Michigan road.
On Saturday three cars OF the train due here
at eleven o'clock were all thrown oil near
DAYTON and rolled over the embankment The
passengers are all more or less injured, but
none killed. Trains were thrown Oft on 9th
er roads, but with no damage. Mails from
the east due here last night have not arrived.
All connections failed at Columbus. Trains
that were due there yesterday had not arriv-
ed at 4 o'clock this morning, and trains that
left Columbus at that hour did not get in
here till this afternoon.
The st. Louis and Chicago mails all failed.
The indications tonight are that trains Will
be able to make time tomorrow from Pitts
burgh
The Allegheny and MonongaheIa Rivers
are both closed by ice. The Ohio is full OF
floating ice. Much of the coal that left Oh
the late rise is III danger of being lost.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 2, 1864.
Thursday the barometer at 1862. Soon
afterwards it commenced rapidly falling,
reaching 1886 at o'clock p. IN, resulting
in violent snow storm from the II. W. On
Thursday night at 10 o'clock the barometer,
rising, had reached 29:l0, and Saturday night
at 6 O'Clock, 1895. The thermometer at
Thursday noon stood at 40 degrees above ze-
70, falling between that and 10 o'clock p. IN.
to degree above zero Friday morning at
9 o'clock a. III. the mercury was at 1873 de-
grees below zero all day. Saturday, more
moderate. At II q. M, 3 degrees above, and
same hour in the evening, IA degrees above
zero. Nothing ike this was ever known il
Kentucky.
The J0uruupS statement this morning re-
specting tbs freezing of five Confederate pris-
oncrs at Jacksonville is entirely incorrect
The prisoners were we'll cared for, and Meth
er death or suffering occurred among them.
/ PITTsBRUG, Jan. 3, 1884.
New Years day came in with the coolest
weather experienced here for some time, and q
very high wind from Friday morning till last
night. The river is frozen tight. The ther
mometer was at no time lower than below
zero. There was slight dash of snow last
night. The thermometer to-day at noon
stood at twelve above. The wind has abat-
ed
Fort WAYNE, Jan. 2, 1864.
The thermometer on the LIST was % degrees
below zero, with heavy wind and snow. Two
men were frozen to death. The Pittssburg
and Fort Wayne Railroad is not yet open to
Chicago but all goes on right eastward. The
Toledo and Wabash road is slightly inter
rupted No mails for three days.
MICHIGAN CITY, Jan. 3,-11:20 .. IN.
The snow storm commenced here on Thurs
morning the list ut., the flakes falling light
ly but steadily until about l p. NJ, when a
tremendous gale from the North set in
This lasted nearly all Thursday night, rag
ing furiousIy and drifting the snow until the
railroads were completely blOckaded. We
have heard more than one ancen. inhabitant
say it was the severest storm ever witnessed
in these parts. The business of the railroads
from here are completely suspended with the
exception of relief trains which have been US
ing all possible means to clear the track be-
tween here and Chicago, and to extract the
trains which were caught in the storm. We
have had no trains from Chicago or Lafayette
since the evening express of Thursday night.
Mr.. Marten, Government Agent of the l..
NJ q c. r. T., with the Road Master, start,
ed with an engine from here at A. NJ. yes
u, !
Brookstown, to which place MIR. Martin had
came on foot, having left his engine showed
in some miles back, which could not be ex-
tracted without help.
The mercury this morning stood at "a de
grees below zero, and has ranged from to
10 below all day.
We have heard Of no loss Of life, but quite
a number have been badly frost bitten
KALAMAZOO, Jan. 3 1864.
The severest storm ever known in this re-
gion, has visited us. The thermometer OH
Friday was twenty degrees below zero. Snow
has fallen to the depth of eight or ten inches,
and the wind having blown a gale it has bad
ly drifted. Trains sf the Michigan Central
Raj lroad have not attempted to run west O.
kalamazoo. Every exertion however, has
been made to set the road open, and com
mencing tomorrow, Sunday, trains will rur
regularly. Passengers who LETT Detroit OF
Friday and Saturday, are in comfortable quar-
terS at Kalamazoo, and will resume their Jour
ney on Sunday morning. All trains that hav,
left Chicago have reached Detroit safely. The
Canada railroads are not at all INSTRUCTED, anC
trains are running regularly.
ST. Louis, Jan. 2, 1864
The cold snap is the severest known here
in twenty years In the suburbs, the Their
mometer, yesterday morning stood 25 degrees
below zero; III town, from Is to 20. Today
it is 5 degrees above zero The river is bridg-
ed by ice, and mails were brought over by
horse and wagon, on the ice, last night. AL
the railroad rraius were suspended on account
of the snow, and on the North Missouri Rail
road 10, 900 hogs have frozen to death, and
an Immense number OF cattle have frozen