The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-01
FROZEN TO DEATH,
That's What Allied the old Year, and
Having Accomplished lis Purpose the
Weather now BsgiHa 10 Moderate.


That's what Allied the Old Year; ant
Having Accomplished lis Purpose III,
Weather now Begins 10 Moderate.
NEW YoRK, December Sl.-The weathe
Ia clear this morning and the thermome
ter at $3.50 was two degrees above zero
Over five hundred men found shelter from
the cold last night in an old church or
Pine street, The proprietor Of the
building now let's pews aud hammockl
at the uniform rate OF five cents
for each lodHsF, Several large stoves in
the building were kept red hot last night,
and they were surrounded by crowds oil
wrelched men, nearly all Of them victims
OF dissipation, At police stations where
there were accommodations for lodgsrs,
the police last night entertained five
hundred homeless creatures, Over
Ave hundred others obtained aid from
the Department Of Charities and Correc.
ton. About a'hundred and fifty persons
were housed at Castle Garden, Many
other homeless ones sought shelter al
various places, The intense cold OF the
past twenty.iour hours sent over q hun.
dred sufferers from frost bites to the hos.
pitals, Applicants for relief represented
every stage in lie, from tramps
to well dressed business men, women
and children. Among the affected were
frost bitten ears, noses, fingers and leet.
A Young FrenChman, Victor Lambert,
only foRr months la the country, was
found lying intoxicated in Battery Park,
with both feet much frozen, James Gun.
nngham, while at work on telegraph
pole, became 30 hsnumbed with cold that
he fell to the street, sustaining
severe injury TO his back, James Frazer,
q pedlllar, was found In wagon with
both feet frozen, Many persons have
been injured by falling on slipply side
walks, sOven having been taken 10 the
hospitals with broken limbs. Bsrgh and
his men shot number Of horses that had
fallen and broken their legs, and they ar.
rested some drivers for not blRnksting
their horses. The weather for the
past twenty.four hOurs Is said to hays
been the Coldest In five years here, The
lowest point reached In that time was two
degrees below zeI0 In some places with.
In twenty miles oI the city the thermome.
ter indicated twelve below.
The Thermometer which marked the |
temperature at zero at 7 o'clock this morn.
Ing, indicated at 3O'CloCk l2 degrees above.
Tue heavy ice flow in the bay and East
river interl0res very much with the regu- |
lsr running oithe larry boats. The steamer
Gulf Stream, from Wilmington, ,was tOwed |
into port by the Florida, from Philadel.
phia, having lost her rudder and rudder
post in the gale Of the 26.h and eth. Both
steamers, while coming up the lower bay,
were Caughtin the leo and carried to Sandy |
Hook before they could exlriCate them.
selves. The LaTlh, for Golden, hence
for MOnteego bay, WAS forced by the ice
upon the Romer shOal, which divides the
Sirah from the main channel la the bay.
Three vessels are reported ashore on Long
Island and New Jeisey coasts.
CHICAGO, December 3l.--The cold snap
but is less intense, At an early
hour this morning the mercury was three
degrees below zero; az noon, ak above,
Following was the condition Of the weath.
er In Western cities at eight
o'clock this morning: Toledo, clear,
below; Detroit CLEAR, ! below
clear above; Winona,
cloudy, bOlow;Sl, Paul, clear, O below;
pusuqne, clear, 9 above; Davenport, fair,
below keokuk, clear above; Des
Moines, cloudy, I above; St, Louis, clear,
| Hbovei Peoria, clear, below: Omaha,
cloudy, 8 above.
LoEG BRANCH, December 3l.-The
weather is moderatng, The thermometer
has risen 50 degrees IN twenty.iour hours,