Savannah morning news., 1886-02-06
COLD WAVE NIPS NQMS.
MERCURY MAKES ANOTHER
DIVE FOR THE ZERO POINT.

More Water Pipes Burst and Plumbers
Tickled-The Effect Of the Freeze on
the Truck Fsrms-Nineteen Degrees
the Lowest Temperature Registered
since Jan. lathe Cold Wave Broken
and Warmer Weather Predicted for
To-Day.
The cold wave that waited into >avan-
nah on Thursday got in its best licks yes
terday morning. At 6 O'Clock mercury
stood at 19 deg. the lowest it mas been
since Jan. Il, when it went down to L
deg. Exposed water pipes were again
frozen up and the ponds around the city
were covered with ice a quarter OF an
inch thick. The small boy began to won-
der what he had done with his skates and
how long it would be before the ice on the
canal would be strong enough to bear
him. At the Signal Station the thermome-
ter registered 20 deg. at O'Clock. Early
risers were morally certain that it was
below zero when they stepped out of bed
on TO a piece of oil cloth. Young men
who had been sitting up with SICK
friends the nIght before and were delayed
In getting home until a. m, found that
mercury was then % deg. above zero. A
few late outs were thoughtful enough to
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ming in their wards when they got home,
but the majority of people who went to bed
early and dreamed peaceful dreams woke
up and found another JOB for the plumber
staring them IN the face.
The Signal Bureau officer hauled down
the cold wave flag at 7 O'Clock, and said
that the weather would grow milder after
last night. The crest Of the cold wave
passed over here, he said, early yesterday
,Hu .xV.N
up TO 70 deg. AT 3 O'Clock 1t had got up
TO 83, and at last nightit was "a, where
it remained stationary until IL O'Clock,
when it settled back TO 95.2 deg.
The freeze was severe outside of the
city, and did good deal of damage on
the truck farms. The crops that were re-
planted after the January freeze were just
out OF the ground, and are total l0ss.
Farmers who were in the city yesterday
said that everything that was above
ground IS killed.
There were colder places than Savap-
nah yesterday, though nowhere south Of
here on the Atlantic coast did mercury 60
lower. Buffalo was the coolest place in
the United States at Z O'Clock in the morn
ing. At that hour mercury was 10 deg.
below zero there. Al Cleveland, o., and
Portland, Me-, 1t was Z deg. below. AT
Boston, Mass, and Nashville, Tenn, it
was BGigHs az W ts7AAAR hVh anu
Plttsburg below. aud at New
York and Cincinnati / deg. below.
At Atlanta it got down to deg. At Au-
gusta it was 10 deg. Charleston marked
16 deg., and experienced a slight snow
storm. On Thursday afternoon the snow,
which had been falling all over south Car
Olina during the day, reached Charleston,
and a few of those peOple-who had moth
ing else to occupy their attention were
edited by seeing few, very few, flakes
OF snow, the first that has visited Charles
ton for several years. They disappeared
almost as soon as they touched the
ground.
At Pensacola, Fla, mercury was at q
deg. yesterday morning. At Mobile 1t
Was 16. At Montgomery 10. At Vicks-
burg II, and at New Orleans 26.
The south-bound trains on the Atlantic
Coast Line system were DELAYED, and the
Northern mail, due here at GAS a. m, did
not arrive until 4 in the afternoon. The
Centraps trains were also delayed, and
the afternoon mail was an hour late.
The Signal Office men said last night
that the back Of the cold wave is broken,
aud that the weather will be warmer to-
day. The indications for Savannah are:
Fair weather, variable winds, generally
shifting to easterly and then to southeast,
with falling barometer.