The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-01-01
Heavy Snow Storms and Gold Weather.

A heavy snow fall prevailed during last
Saturday, December 18th, from Indiana
eastward to the Alleghenies and the south.
ern line of Kentucky northward. In Vir-
ginia the storm continued Sunday, the
snow alternating with hail and rain. In
Baltimore, Md, rain fell nearly all day
and night, but OH Sunday snow fell to the
depth of foot. \ heavy snow set in at
New York on Sunday evening. Along
the New England coast light snow fell
during Sunday, accompanied by a fierce
gale, the velocity of the wind reaching 81
miles per hour at TEACHERS Island. A
violent gale prevailed in Delaware bay and
along the New Jersey coast on Saturday
and Sunday accompanied first by heavy
rain and then by binding snow. Several
wrecks and loss of life are reported.
Dispatches on Monday night state that
the weather was very cold in the North
west. At o'clock in the morning TEN,
peratures were reported of 40 degrees be
low zero at Fort Gary, Manitoba, 81 below
at Pembina, u below at Duluth, 16 below
at St. Paul, Is below at Lacrosse, s below
at Omaha zero at Milwaukee, + above
zero at Cheyenne, 6 above at St. Louis,
and II above at Chicago. Later in the
day the temperature in Chicago sank to
above zero, and remained at that point
until after sunset, when it began to sink
lower By midnight it was ID degrees
below zero.
At Fort Garry, Manitoba, on Tuesday
morning, the temperature was II degrees
below zero; at Duluth, 30 below; St. Paul,
% below; Escanaba, 20 below; Milwaukee,
10 below; Lacrosse, 20 below; Chicago, 8
below; St. Louis, below; indianapolis, 1
below; Detroit, 3 below; Toledo, l below;
Cincinnati, 6 above; Pittsburg, 5 above;
Buffalo, above. Throughout the upper
Missouri Valley Tuesday night tAe tenn
pcrature was 30 degrees below zero. \
telegram from Caldwell, Kansas, reports
the coolest weather ever known in that
State. The highest point reached by the
thermometer in Oh cage, Tuesday, was
below zero, and at midnight it was II be-
low and falling. Throughout Northern
Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan and
Wisconsin, the temperature all day Tues
day ranged from zero to 30 below. a
heavy snow storm was reported through
out Northern Texas, Tuesday.
Dispatches from the South on Wednes-
day night give an account Of the severe
weather there. At Richmond six inches
of snow fell on Tuesday. At Dauville all
the roads were blocked and travel SIS
pended. Similar accounts were received
from Norfolk and Petersburg
Snow fell in New Orleans and ice form
ed. An zach and half of snow fell at
Vicksburg. Business was almost entirely
suspended at Shreveport, on account of the
intense cold, the mercury being down to 8.
Snow is reported at Columbia and at
Columbus; at Dallas and Gastcria, n c.,
it is II inches deep. Five inches of snow
fell at Montgomery, the heaviest ever seen
in that section. Many peope are suffer
ing in North Carolina from the cold At
Augusta there was the heaviest fall of
snow since 1857. There was Il slight snow
at Galveston, and at Sherman, the mcrcu-
ry was 5 below zero.
PORT JEFFERSON, \. Y, Dec PA
snow-storm, accompanied by heavy winds,
swept over this region last night damag-
ing shipping and blockading trains. The
regular trains on this branch were DELAYED
for hours.
HUNTERS POINT, n. Y, Dec. 27.-No
trains are through yet from Northport,
Port Jefferson or Grecnport, on the Long
Island railroad Nearly all the cuts are
filled with snow. The Babylon trains are
running on the old South road. They
had to cut through six feet of snow in
many places.
LONG BRANCH, n. j., Dec. 27.-Oue
of the scverest snow-stornls that has viSi
ted this coast Tor years set in on Friday at
/ a m, and continued for ~ hours with
scarcely any cessation. The roads all
about the country are blocked and impass-
able The snow fell on Il level to the depth
of 20 inches, and drilted as high as ten
feet. The bluff is badly cut away, carry
ing with it summer houses and costly bulk
heads. Kolb's Hotel and the Surf House
had their porticoes blown away by the We
locity of the wind, which also demolished
forty feet of the roof of the Pier Pavilion.
The damage to the cottages at Monmouth
Beach summer colony exceeds $40, 000
There is a washout on the New Jersey
Southern railroad at the highlands
SEABRIGHT, n. J. Dee. 27.-The
Highland break in the New Jersey South
ern railroad has not yet been repaired, and
no trains are running north of this place
AS soon as the heavy sea goes down rails
will be laid along a wooden bridge. The
damage to the summer cottage colony at
Seabright will probably be $4,000. The
bathing houses Of Bellevue Hotel are all
washed out Of position, and the bluff is cut
away.
RED BANK, n. j., Dec. 27.-Two men
lost their lives in the snow storm in this
section. One was man named Heating,
who was found dead at Lakeland, and the
bridge lurapike. The New York and Free
hold railroad was blockaded with snow
until > O'Clock p H. The first train to day
on the Pennsylvania railroad did not make
its way through until o'clock in the
afternoon.
BoRDENTowN, n. j., Dec. 27.-The
snow and wind storm which set in here
yesterday morning has caused trouble on
the lines Of the Pennsylvania railroad, and
delayed trains yesterday and to day. The
heavy freight trains all experienced diff
guilty where the snow had drifted into the
deep cuts The snow is eleven inches
deep on level The highways in the
country are banked up with heavy drifts
PETERSBURG, Va, Dec. IA very
heavy snow storm, extending as far south
as Weldon, S. c., and far vast as Lynch
burg, Va, prevailed on Saturday night and
yesterday. The fixes, which were very
large, covering the ground to the depth of
several inches. The snow fell briskly here
yesterday.
Reports late on Thursday night state
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