Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-08
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
TREATED 40 A rosrHEKS nihzz ARD
A NewspapoT's Timeiy rhiianthropy-tN
treme Weather Reported all Through
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trems wsather Reported all Through
the South-soIuo Fatalities
The cold weather Of last week steadily
grew worse until Friday and Saturday
nights, when the mercury touched zero.
such weather in Southern ATTITUDES is
productive of the most dreadful couSe
quences among the poor, who are prepared
neither with shelter, food nor provisions
for such state Of things. Ca Saturday
it was learn Il that IN Atlanta hundreds of
poor women and children were huddled
around their last bdrniug stick of wood
aud the Constitution newspaper of Sunday
morning made an appeal TO the citi15uS
to scud to that paper money, provisions
and fuel, which would be distributed by
the business department.
At noon there were gathered together
about thirty wood wagons, aud As many
moro as provision train. Merchants
worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
took their places as drivers, each with a
wood wagon and q provision wagon under
his charge, and started on a tOur Of the
city, walking all day until uighttall. SOmo
iudeScrbAbc scenes OF suffering were
witnessed.
All day Monday the Constitution ohi u
looked moro like military supply depot
than "a newspaper OthOo Hundreds ui
sacks OF tiour, coffee aud sugar, sides of
meat aud hams, and on the sidewalk cords
Of wood were seen, while the streets were
iull from morning till night with people
clamOrOue for relief. The wagon trains
also contiuuod at work. The response OF
the merchants tO the call for supplies has
been surprising in its lIOcralty.
The weather is still raw and bitterly
cold, yet it is safe to say that there is not
house or hut in the city where the
CONSTRUCTORS beuevOlenCo has not placed
a cracking fire and food for the week. Tho
value Of tue provisions distributed IS be
tween IS. 900 and $4,000 No distinction
was made IN the distribution ~ regard q
color.
Extreme Weather IN tue south
Reports from Nashville, Tcun., show
that during the present cold spell the
temperature has boon lower than before
known IN fifty years, one day excepted
The weather has greatly moderated, and It
has been showing heavily since early
Monday afternoon, the ground brin.
covered to the 'pth of six inches sat
urday the thermometer WAS 10 below
zero. In Memphis the SNOW lies eight
inches deep, with no indications of tu,
storm soon ceasing.
\ carefully kept record at Petersburg
Va, shows this 10 be the coolest weatlcI
experienced in that section for ten years
The river Is tightly frozen aud naviLatIor
is completely broken off. The ponds near
the city affJrd excellent skating. Ths
farmers have commenced cutting ice. Il
is feared that considerable game has been
killed by the extreme cold.
Reports indicate serious damgE, by
frosts to young orange groves of Florida
garden truck aud pineapplss along tLg
coast as far south as MauAtce. The
older groves and fruit are apparently
uniniured
The severest weather OF the season st
in at Jackson. Miss on Monday with rain,
hail and snow. Trains north are reported
sEow bound.
The weather at Shreveport, La, Is the
cOldest for several years. A heavy hal
storm prevailed Sunday night, followed
by snow storm next morning, covering
the ground to the depth OF seven inches.
Frozen to Death.
Three hunters, Henry Shields, Edward
Shields and James Anderson, Of Little
Rock, Ark, were frozen 70 death on the
prairie IN ChickasaN Nation on tho night
OF the 9Th instant.
James MOTiarity WAS frozen 20 dea'L IN
Pittsburg on Monday. His " ife was after
ward found at home helples5ly drunk and
nearly frozen. She will die. Richard II
Beatty was frozen TO death at MInrogylll3
Allegheny county.