The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-09-03
NO SUMMER.
A Season Not Exactly Like the Pres.
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Correspondence Of thS Boston alobe)
While every one Is speaking Of the
present season as being remarkable In liz
characteristics, l have gathered for your
readers some reliable facts Of the year
1916, known as "the year without sum.
mer." Few persons living can recollect
i, but II was the coldest ever known il
Europe and America. The following Is q
brief abstract Of the weather during each
month ol the year: tr.
January was mild, 90 much 60 as to
render fires almost needless In parlors.
December previous was very cold,
February was not very cold; with the
exception Of few days 1t was mild, like
It's predecessor.
March was cold and boisterous during
the first part Of II; the remainder was
mild. A great freshet In the Ohio and
Kentucky Rivers caused great loss Of
property.
April began warm, but grew colder as
the month advanced, and ended with
snow and ice, and o temperature more
like winter than spring.
May was more remarkable for frowns
than smiles, Buds and fruits were frozen;
ice formed half an inch thick; corn killed
and the fields again and again rcplanted
until deemed to late.
June was the coolest ever known in
this latitude. Frost, ice. and snow were
common. Almost every green thing
killed. Fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow
fell to the depth OF ten inches in Yer
mont, several in Maine, three in the in
terror ot New York, and also In Massa-
chuSsetts. Considerable damage was
done at New Orleans in consequence Of
the rapid rise Of the river. The suburbs
were covered with water, and the roads
were only passable with boats.
July was accompanied by frost and Ice.
On the 9th ice was formed of the thick
ness Of common window glass through
out New England, New York, and some
parts Of Pennsylvania. Indian corn was
nearly all destroyed; some favorably stu
ated fields escaped. This was true of
some Of the hill farms Of Massachusetts.
August was more cherries, II possible,
than the summer months already passed
Ice was formed half an inch thick. In
dian corn was so frozen that the greater
part was cut down and dried for fodder.
Almost every green thing was destroyed,
both in this country and in Europe.
Papers received from England state "that
1t would be remembered by the present
generation that the year 1915 was a year
in which there was no summer" Very
little corn ripened in New England and
Middle States. Farmers supplied them
selves from the corn produced in 1916 for
the seed OF the spring Of 1917. 1t sold OF
from four to five dollars per bushel.
September furnished about two weeks
Of the mildest weather of the season.
Soon after the middle it became very
cold and frosty; ice formed q quarter Of
an inch thick.
October produced more than It's share
OF cold weather; frost and ice in COM
mon.
November was cold and clustering.
Snow fell so as to make good sleighing.
December was mild and comfortable.
The above is brieI summary of "the
cold summer Of 1916" as Il was called, in
order TO distinguish It from The cold sea:
son. The winter was mild. Frost and
ice were Common in every month in the
year. Very little vegetation matured in
the Eastern and Middle States. The
suns rays seemed to be destitute Of heat
throughout the simmer; all nature was
clad in sable hue, and men exhibited no
little anxiety concerning the future Of
this life.
The average wholesale price Of flour
during that year, in the Philadelphia
market, was $l3 per barrel. The aver
age price Of wheat in England was nine
ty.three shillings per quarter. u.l