Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-12
STILL A BllZZlNG.
The Biting Weather Still Felt in the
Land Generally.
A NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM COLD.
A List Of Fatalities From the Bizzard---
Damage DOne---Many Vessels Lost
With All On Board.

CHICAGO January 1.-The temperature
has remained below zero and the night
started in clear and cold with prospect Of
low temperature again tonight. The trains
are beginning to arrive little more
promptly from the west but only two Of
the roads have been able yet 10 clear
thier lines, A gentleman who arrived
from the southern part Of the State
to-day, said: mo correct accounts
OF the violence Of the storm in Southern
Illinois has been given. 1t began about
9 or 10 o'clock Thursday night and al
though snow had ceased falling yesterday
morning, the weather gave no signs Of
modersting. Trains on al the roads
are many hours behind time. The
Illinois Central is about the only line which
kept up ita passenger service. The East
bound train from s.. Louis to Cincinnati,
on the Ohio and Mississippi road, was
caught in drift wet of Centralia early
Friday morning. The drift was two miles
long and several feet high. The train
was not rescued until Saturday after
noon. The passengers suffered a
good deal, but the road
managed TO get some coffee and some pro
visions to th.m. Two men were frozen
while digging ut the drift and were brought
into Oden Saturday evening. The fatal;
ties in the agricultural portions OF south
ern sections have been numerous. Two
men were frozen near the little town OF
Flora while driving cattle from a
field. An unknown man was found
dead on the track not far from Oden. Two
cars OF hogs, part Of blockaded freight
train, were found frozen stiff Sat.
urday morning. Many trees in
the souther part of the State had bud.
ded in the warm weather Of the
past month. These will nearly all die and
the loss will doubtless be large. Farmers
say aocbs Of dead prairie chickens and
coveys Of frozen quail can be seen on
nearly al farms.
TIE COLD Is FLORIDA.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, January ll.-This
is the third day OF the cold wave, the effects
of which have been felt throughout Flori-
do, so far as heard from. The tempera
ture began falling Friday night, and
Saturday night the thermometer
recorded q degrees at the Signal
Office and fifteen degrees in exposed
places. This morning it was ~ at the
signal Office and Is at exposed places
. The temperature was 10 at Fernandina
Sunday, 20 OF St. Augustine, and is re-
ported TO have fallen to IL as far
soa,h az Tampa The damage done is
less than expected. All oranges remain.
ing on the trees are frozen and the lemon
trees in northern Florida prohsbIy killed
but beyond losing their leaves it ia not be-
lieyed that the orange trees sre injured
anywhere in the State.
TwENTY.oNE VESSELS LOST.
/ HAVANA, January ll.-Advices from
/ Crelon say that twenty-one vessels we're
wrecked and sixty-fve lives lost during the
recent storm there.
FOUNDERED.
FIRE ISLAND n. Y, January ll.-The
British steamer LTeton Castle, Capt Col
via, from New York, January 9th, for
Rowen, France, foundered fifteen miles
south OF Fire Island, at 10 o'clock
this morning. One boat in
charge Of the first mate with
a crew of men Effected q land.
ing five miles east of here. The second
boat with q crew Of 10 men under com.
msnd OF the captain left the steamer at the
same time When last seen all but three
of the oars had been broken.
msslNG VESSEL.
New HAVEN, CT., January ll.-Tht
schooner Doretts Kahn, Of Greenport, il
missing, and it is supposed this is the yes
sci that went down west of Charles Islanc
during the storm Of Friday. Nothing
definite has been learned as to the fate O
TIE crew.
ONLY ONE or EIGHT sAvED.
The schooner Crissis Wright, Captain
Clsrd, which sailed from Baltimore fo
Savannah on December 3Oth last, was los
at SEQ of Beaufort, n. c., on Sunday onl,
one man of her crew af eight was saved
The captains body was recovered.
ICED Up.
NEw YORK, January ll.-Stesmer Stat
of Nevada from Glasgow. which arrive;
here yesterday, reports: Have been within
100 miles OF this port for the last thre
days with terrific hurricane from III
east and southeast then going around th
compass, during which the vessel was bad
ly iced up.
THE WESTERN BLOCKADE.
KANSAS CRY, Mo, January ll.-Th
condition OF the western railroads is littl
, better than for several days past. Ar
other storm was reported to-day fror
: Western Kansas impeding the work {
clearing the tracks. There are no throug
e trains on lines west Of here in or out Il
q night.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
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