The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-01-14
OLD BOREAS ON THE RAM
PAGE.
He Has Opened ALI the Doors of
the North Pole.
THE WHOLE NORTHWEST FROZEN
STIFF.
The Ladies of Manitowoc in Mourning.
Still the Thermometers are Not Yet Frozen.

Still the Thermometers are Not Yet Frozen.
The blasts of winter are upon us with
vengeance. Old Boreas, on spree,
must have left his ice-celler door aiar.
for no sober storm director would play
such prank. With each succeeding
hour last Friday night it grew colder
and colder, till door knobs, chimney
tops and telegraph poles froze clear off.
The thermometer fell to 81 degrees be-
low zero, Saturday morning. Since
New Years night aud the day following,
1864, the people of this region have not
| experienced such severe weather, as we
had last Friday and Saturday night
The weather had been settling down to
earnest work in the matter of growing
cold since afternoon, and as the night
fell the wind came up, bearing upon its
edge the keen, biting frost. About s
o'clock the breeze
HAD GROWN INTO GALE.
sweeping the loose snow, which had fall
len before, into piles around the street
corners, sitting it into cracks and cram
MES, and finging great sheets of the
same full into the face of such pedes-
TRANS as found 1t necessary to be out at
such time. With each succeeding
moment the cold intensified. Their
mometers grew hopelessly respondent
in their sinking condition, the mercury
COMPRISING itself into it's smallest COM
pass.
Pedestrians on the streets kept close
to the leeward side of the houses in vain
attempts to find place of shelter. And
all the time
| THE HowLING BLAST
kept up, and the frigidity increased.
home by unfortunates to thaw out and
pain their owners; there were numerous
tingling noses held close to blazing
fires in vain endeavor to get them
hmbered to q natural condition there
were hundreds of solidifed fingers that
struggled fruitlessly with frost-covered
door-knobs, that seemed to freeze to the
fingers as the night air struck them.
/ Untold numbers of curses went up
in an awkward and unfinished man
ner from lips that were nearly stiff !;
and ponderous icicles that hung with the
tenacity of cold death itself upon the
boards Of men. 1t was really cold :;
there could be no doubt about it. Even
the housed citizen felt it, as he sat be-
side his red-hot stove, and the fast
forming frost on the window pane, and
THE CHILLY AIR
a foot away from the fire, gave him to
understand, in no undecided way, that
more fuel was needed. Even the sleep
er in his warm bed, awoke to a sense of
something having gone wrong, imagin-
ing, in his troubled dreams, that he had
been set adrift, stark naked, on a cake
of ice, while on voyage in search of
the northwest passage. It kept grow
ing colder
The ladies, who have cared for and
nursed tender and valuable plants, are
in mourning, for Jack Frost entered
nearly every household and killed their
pet plants. Cellars and houses heated
by furnaces, whose fires are never ex-
tingushed for four months in the year,
did not even escape. Damage was done
to other things besides plants. Nearly
every cellar in the city was invaded, as
by the freezing of the whole winters
supply of potatoes, apples and other
vegetables. We understand one man had
two carloads of apples frozen, which
is a severe loss.
The storm moderated somewhat Satur-
day evening about shutdown, but was
blowing quite fresh again Sunday morn
ing about 3 o'clock. Sunday it was not
SO intensely cold, but ''yet gentle
breezes'' were slung at us rather more
boisterously than was desired.
ELSEWHERE.
At Danville, ILL.,, the weather was the
coolest known for many years. The ice
is said to be from Is inches to four feet
in thickness, and weather still growing
colder.
Reports from Minnesota state that
early Friday morning the wind veered to
the north, and increased in velocity till
it amounted to hurricane The Their
mometer stood at 26 degrees below zero
at noon, in St. Paul 80 degrees below
at Wilmar and 80 degrees below zero at
Eft. Garry. At DesMoines, Iowa. the
thermometer stood at 80 degrees below
zero. Burlington reports that the mer-
curry fell 10 degrees in 20 minutes.
A passenger train due at McGregor,
Iowa, was snow bound at Ridgeway,
with the thermometer 80 degrees below
zero. ST. Joseph, Mo-, passenger trains
were not sent out on account Of the
storm, as several incoming trains were
snow-bound and 90 hours overdue. In
the far west the mercury ranged from
Is to 81 degrees below zero. Later re-
ports state the murcury to have been as
follows: AT Sioux City Iowa 25 and