American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-01-13
Terrible storm in the West.

OsHKoH, Wis, Jan. 3.-The storm
opened on Thursday with cold, driving
snow Friday morning the mercury had
fallen to the almost incredible degree Of
Mirty-eiqht beloao zero, F'ahrenheit. On
Saturday morning it was thirty-six below
zero. At this time Sunday afternoon) it
is eight below zero.
The only casualty we have heard of, is
that a woman being frozen to death while
driving a team between Berlin and Rosen-
dal, Winnebago county. There are many
cases of frozen hands and feet and smaller
members.
RoCHFoRD, Ill, Jan. 3.-Themost Sc
we're storm since 1856 has been raging
here since Wednesday, commencing with
a heavy fall of snow about midnight. 1t
was quickly followed by terrible wind,
the thermometer falling before morning
to thirty three degrees below zero. The
snow and wind continued till after dark,
the snow drifting badly, the thermometer
varying but little from thirty degrees be-
| low zero.
On Friday the wind blewa perfect gale
all day. 1t was intensely cold, and it was
! impossible for men or beast to stop out but
few minutes alta time. Unsupported that
one man was frozen to death, and several
50 badly frost bitten in the eXtremities
that they will have feet and hands ampu-
tated. The first train since Thursday
morning passed here at last night:
One lady passenger, while stocm-bound
at Belvidere, was attackedwith diptheria,
and died last nighta few minutes after her
arrival here.
Business has nearly been suspended; on
account of the roads being impossible and
the intense cold.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 3.-There is no doubt
the last three days of last week have been
the coolest known here for years. The
highest range of the mercury during that
time has been ten degrees below zero, and
most of the time mas neen twenty and thir-
ty below. 1t was thirty degrees below ze-
TO at O'Clock this morning, and thirty
eight during the night. The army regis
ter thermometer at Fort Smelling, which
is on a high bleak bluff, marked fifty be-
low zero Yesterday. A register which has
been kept since that fort was established
in 1912, shows that this degree of cold
has been reached but twice during that
time.
MILWAUKEE, January ?, lS64.-The
weather for the past forty-eight hours has
been. perfectly diabolcal, and business is
in consequence almost suspended. The
thermometer has ranged from thirty to
thirty-fve degrees below zero, with a
driving wind most terrible to encounter.
Frozen eal.', noses and feet are innumera-
bic, aud many persons were yesterday pick
ed up inseusible on the streets. Ears and
feet were frozen while going but few
blocks. Many employees of the railroads
were badly frozen and crippled for life
No trains have arrived Or departed yet in
any direction. In fact, we are complete
ly frozen in. and must wait patiently for
dcliyerauce, though there is little abate-
ment as yet.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. =, lS64.-
All railroad communication is suspended
with no prospect of being resumed for sew
eral days, No trains have arrived here
since Thursday. Wearc completely snow
ed in. The weather is bitter cold. Sew
eral'soldiers have frozen to death at Camp
Yates 1t is reported that the Hospital is
in very bad, condition. The stage-dri-
yer on the route between here and Virgin
ia was found dead on his box to day
Supposed to have frozen to death.
GALENA, January 2.-The weather is
exceedingly cold, the mercury ranging
from twenty-five to thirty-thrce degrees
below zero The gale subsidized ON Fri
day night leaving the railroad blocked up
since Wednesday, evening and the pros
pect is gloomy.
Fort WAYNE, January 2.-The ther-
mometer on the 1st was 2S degrees below
zero, with heavy wind and snow. Two
men were frozen to death. The Pitts
burgh and Fort Wayne Railroad is not
yet open to Chicago, but all goes on right
eastward The Toledo and Wabash Road
is slightly interrupted. Nomails for three
days
MADISON, Jan. "A terrible storm of
wind and snow set in here on Wednesday
night, lastingall day Thursday-complete-
ly blockading the railroads. In many pla-
ces on the Milwaukeeand Prairie du Chen
Railroad the drifts were from II to II feet
deep, and packedin so hard thatit requir-
ed to be shoveled out before trains could
pass. The passenger train which left here
Thursday afternoon for Prairie du Chien,
got buried in drift at Avena, and was
not got out until this Forming.
The cold yesterday and to. day has been
intense, the thermometer standing, yester-
day morning at seven o'clock, at thirty
four degrees below zero. This morning it
is reported at thirty-nine degrees, and at
the Harvey Hospital the mercury CONCEAL
ed. The oldest settlers say it is the cold
est weather they ever experienced in this
STATE. There was great dealof suffering
at Camp Randallan Harvey Hospitalyes
terday, and last night theirsupply of wood
was exhausted, and a large number of sol
diers were badly frozen.
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