St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-01-10
Severe Cold and Great Storms.
TERRIBLE WEATHER ALL ABOUT THE

TERRIBLE WEATHER ALL ABOUT THE
COUNTRY.
The weather the last of last week was
uneoualed in severity for several years
in many sections of the country. AT
Oswego and vicinity the fall of snow
has rarely, if ever, been equaled. Trains
on the Erie, Great Western, Grand
Trunk, New York Central and other
railways were greatly delayed, and i'll
some instances were abandoned, six and
eight locomotives being inadequate to
the task of blowing through the drifts.
The storm of the week before badly
blocked the roads, and trains had bare
" commenced running again when down
came another heavy fall of snow, and
business was nearly at a standstill.
There was the heaviest storm for years
at Bangor Thursday and Friday, accom-
panied by a gale, which drifted the
roads badly. Trains were several hours
late in reaching Montreal from Boston,
and the mails due in New York Friday
from the West were all late. At Rich
mond, Va, between 3 P. NJ. Thursday
and sunset Friday, there was fall of
forty degrees in the temperature. In
Chicago Friday morning the mercury
fell to 229 below zero, and at Memphis
the glass indicated g. above, which
was as cold or colder than in Boston.
At Chicago, the mercury was Sc below
zero at Cleveland, 50 below at st.
Louis, 4 below at Toledo, > below.
The obstruction to travel was great
est in northern and central New York.
and traffic Oh the railroads was almost
suspended. The snow plows were of
littla 1Sa tba drifts t;IInJ -.
clearances were made. On the New
York Central no trains moved from Buff
falo Friday. Several passenger trains
were delayed at Batavia. The Erie rail
way is generally blocked.
The mercury stood at 3 degrees below
zero in New York city Friday morning, |
which is lower than for three wears, and |
IA degrees colder than at any time last !
winter. A westerly gale of great vio-
lence blew all night with excessive cold. !
The New York side of the North river |
was filled with heavy ice. carried there /
by the winds. After $50 p. NJ. no boat |
left the slip for Jersey City, for the first
time IN 20 years, the ticket-seller stop |
ped his sales in consequence of the |
stoppage of boats.
The cold extended far south. At |
shreveport La, ana lckSbuln. Miss
the snow was SIX uncnes deep on Satur-
day. New Orleans had storm of sleet.
1t was the coolest for years at Norfolk.
Va, Saturday morning, and the james
river WAS blocked with ice, while facto-
rIeS at Richmond We're stopped by the
freezing of the canal which supplies
them with water power. The Their
mometer ranged from , to IL degrees
below zero along the Chesapeake and
the Ohio canal. There was a DRILLING
rain with sleet, at Jacksonville, Fla.
and the thermometer fell to 80 degrees
above.
INCIDENTS OF THE COLD.
q. Corbett, driver of a High street
chariot" at Columbus Ohio, was found
dead on his box, death having been
caused by paralysis of the heart induced
by extreme cold.
Many persons were admitted to the
Philadelphia hospital the 3D., suffering
from frozen limbs, and several drivers
OF passenger railway cars were badly
frozen.
Two brakemen are reported frozen to ,
death on the freight Trans from Phila- ,
delphia. ,
For the first time within twenty wears l
the hudson is so firmly frozen over OPP !
poslte 1onkers as to admit pedestrians /
crossing on the ice. The Hudson be- t
tween Tarrytown and Nyack is brdged {
by ice five inches thick. A large mum
Oe1 OF ocean steamers were DELAYED by
the Ice and many steamers on the North {
river were actually frozen in. t
Not without loss of life was the dread |
ful cold OF Saturday attended, and some t
OF the cases were sad indeed. At Brook {
yn an infant child of Mrs. Kenney was t
frozen to death while sleeping beside t
the mother-a story full of shocking c
probabilities. AT Long Branch 4 years {
old Anne Blake died from the effects of q
the cold and at Jersey City il newsboy, S
Christopher Schatt, was frozen to death. |
At Glasgow junction, KY, four tramps
were frozen to death, Friday night. 4
The telegraphic report Friday morn |
ing, was as follows Cheyenne 100 6
below zero ; Chicago Ia below Cleve- t
land Is below Pittsburg IL : below; t
indianapolis l5o below; Cincinnati 9 .
below; Milwaukee 100 below; st. l
Louis . below; Louisville &c below v
Nashville . below. In Boston 5 de- l
5rees above. {