Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-06
TIE TERRIBLE COLD,
INCIDENTS OF the Severe Winter wea.

The Thermometer was baloy 7era Yesterday
al tbfecSlhrlGge, Mimi. 5, Chicago :, Cincinnati
>. Indianapolis ). Compared with the two nre-
flonS days the temperature in the west and
norm showed considerable rise ltwaS colder
was %: Portland, Me-, &c; New London, conn
=; ana oSwego. y. Y. 2S degrees above zero
Mnlle at Washington IL was down 10 = Vicks.
ourS IL ana Shreveport, La, Is.
BELOW zERo-THg DEATH RECaRn
"A FANNY OF eight persons frozen 10 DEATH
brakeman Opdyke found dead and frozen al
| bis post on the hurTying train:" "a waif found
dead from the cold near Wiikesbarrr:'' 1.-The
east side elevated road is running its trains an
night TO keep the engines from freezing up"
These stray items OF the news give us mea-
sure Of what is meant when a man reads al
his breakfast table that over wide territory Il
has been "below zero"
AT Lancaster. Pa. al fire saturday night.
three tfremen were seriously frozen, one Of
them supposed TO be fatally. Annie Blake,
years of age, died at Iong Branch yesterday
from the effects of the intense cold OF Friday,
to which she was exposed while travelling from
Newark. An old man, supposed 20 be Jas. Nc
Arthur, OF New York. was found I'm that city
Saturday in snow bank. Examination showed
that he had frozen TO death. An infant child of
Mrs. Kenny, residing at Brooklyn, was frozen 10
death beside its mother, where il had been
sseeplng on Friday night -Four trampS were
Junction, Ky. Jacob Van HeuScn, aged -
years went out al Albany. y. Y. Friday night,
TO dig grave ana was found saturday morn
Ing In the cemetery frozen TO death.
BOYS DEATH.
Edward Gilbert, son OF ChaS l.. Gi'heIt liv-
ing on farm. was found frozen TO death on
Friday morning about six miles from Belair,
Md. He was sent TO the store on Thul ebay
night 10 make some purchases, ard in crossing
log over the branch, near the mill. IL is sur
posed he fell from said log into the stream aud
was either stunned Ga broke his neck, as the
water was only about foot deep under the
log; Search Was made for him on Thursday
night but he was not found until Friday morn
ing early. When found he was frozen Sfiff He
was about 10 years OF age.
AN UNPREoRDENTD FREEZE IN FLORIDA
Telegram from Jacksonville. Fla. Jaa. 5,
SayS:-A DRILLING rain with Sleet fell last night
anu the mercury fell 10 Thirty degrees above
| zero. Everything out Of doors was covered this
morning with 4 thin coat OF ice This is unnre-
| Ceuehleu mere, nothing OF the kind having been
| known for at least thirty years fever 1t is
hot YET known whether orange trees and fruit
are injured. SNOW fell in considerable quantity
| as lar south as Dupont, Ga. and trains arriving
mere this morninC from Savannah are cove ed
| teiday.
| TERRIBLE STORY
| Is told in western paper. Within five miles M
Elo 1, lives small farmer named Clement
| Hafk1hS, with his young wife. on "Wednesday
| evening the latter sent lIaIllins 10 Fiorissant
| for a midwife. Halt way toward Flo lssant
| HarkinS wagon broke down. and lie tied i've
! team to fence and walked the rest OF the wav
! Being delayed, ii was four hours before he col
nome and Wien he did il was to discover that
| his wife was missing. He traced her footsteps
towards neighboTS house. about mile OIL,
| and found her body In the roadside within INV
yards OF her destination. II is supposed IA At
| she started for the neighbors under the indr
| ence OF fear at her husbands prolonged alb
| Sence.
HtRpSHIPS AT wAFFRTowx.
A WATERFOWL. Y. i, special S9YS. Tho
family OF Edward Williams. composeI of bns-
band and wife and twelve children living i'm
| Martnsburg, Lewis county, is sadly afflicted
me children were taken with dtphthera. and
| IL was impossible to reach physician for seve-
! raj days. After many hardShips a doctor was
procured but three OF the children were dyin"
by the time he had reached the house. Three
| Others have since died and another is past an
| help. IN the town OF Adams Mrs. james PAGE
| dled OF consumption, and the storm was 80
| severe that the only way the fDf0rn1fjnn Of
her death could be given the neighb0TS was br
| blowing the norm. and it was Ouly with tie
! greatest difficulty that any neighb0r was abe
10 gel mere. Marriages have been postponed.
| IN several cases the bridegroom being unable 10
| reach his Intended bride while the more anxious
| ones put on snow shoes and reached their deSti-
| nations over the snow drifts. almost exhausted
| and only 10 md that the officiating clergyman
| was SDow-bound and unable 10 take his post In
! the sealing OF the compact
TWO MEN FOUND DEAD n THEIR WAGONS
| 4 dispatch from Chicago Is as fGllOwS:-!.X-
! IRENE cold weather still prevails liz this city
! and over the entire west aud northwest The
/ lowest temperature foT years has been eXperi-
/ enCed mere the past three days, aud much SUI
| fering is reported In consequence. The tele-
| graph wires along the Michis an Central Hlinoi,
| Central and several western roads have snapped
| for miles from contraction Freight aud pas
| Senger trains Oh all railroads are much behind
| tine At an early hour this morning a COttag
| Grove Ayenre car Caught up with farmer
/ team That was proceeding at 4 slow pace in tn
| car tracks. The driver called for the farmer TO
| turn out. but he paid no attention. Upon exam
| nation the man was found frozen to death. sit
| ting upright on the seat, with the lines in hi
| hand Last evening team stopped at ArTaours
| packing house, at the stock yaidS. The horse
| stopped of their own accord. No driver wa
| visible. Alter standing there for some tune on,
OF the men from the Westinghouse went out
| and behind one of the boxes with which the
wagon was loaded the driver was found dead
| 1t is supposed that he froze to death.
| THE ICE BRIDGE AT NIAGARA
| Niagara river below the falls is Spanned by a
bridge Of ice one mile long and ca feet wide
| The river has been spanned In this way before,
| but seldom if ever so early as now. This unex-
pected appearance OF the bridge is accounted
| for by the vast quantities OF snow and ice
which passed into the river from Lake Erie
| ing the accumulated mass OF ice came to a
| stand-stiI beneath the new suspension bridge,
but in few hours the ce-6am suddenly began
| to heaye. grind and break into fragments with
| loud and painful noise. 1t moved a short dis-
| lance and then came to a second halt, which
| was followed by third movement, more VIC
| lent and noisy than the others. vast Quan-
! tity OF water had accumulated behind the ice
| and made desperate effort TO get free. AS re-
lated by reporter OF the Buffalo Courier, the
| enormous body of snow and ice was raised up
by the water and tossed about in all directions.
| Large blocks weighing hundreds of tons
were lifted into the air. Boulders were torn
| and solitary fir tree which ordinarily stands
| three feet above high water was carried away
! The ponderouS strength OF the enraged waters
! was so apparent that it seemed as II they would
| rend the great gorge In twain and In that way
| escape from their Imprisonment. As they could
| not break the mile-wide dam in two. they lifted
| ii bodily into the air and rushed away beneath
| it, leaving span OF ice above and behind them.
The formation OF the ice in this bridge Is not the
! same on both sides of the river. On the Ameri-
| can side 1t is chiefly composed of snow formed
| into rounded boulder shapes, and looks like
| white coral. As one approaches the centre OF
The river the ice fragments become larger. and
| near the Canadian shore huge cakes OF water
| ice are formed into q solid mass. In some
| places there are creyaSSes twenty-five or thirty
| feet in depth, but water is not seen tlI ough
| them AT present the surface OF the span j. eX-
ceedingly rough, so that il is very fatiguiHg 10
| cross, but before long road viii be made
! through the ice-feld-for such in reality the
| bridge is being sixty feet wide.
| WE ARE REMINDED 10y the death OF Caleb
| Cushing OF the following anecdOte which illus
| trateS his ready wit at repartee and the charac-
! terfStic talent OF the man:
Miss Hannah f. Gould, q poetesS OF some celeb
| Tity years ago, and whose works are still read
with delight by lovers Of poetry. wrote this cpl