Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-11

Oranges and Vegetables an the south
Badly Dsmsged-Hartshfps 81 Trav.
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oranges and Vegetables an the south
Badly Dsmased-Hartaships OF Trav.
elers.
The storm and cold wave OF SATURDAY spread
over the entire country from the Gulf OF Mexico
70 the lakes. The places where the th.rmome-
Ter went below zero on Saturday were as fol-
lows: Memphis. 9; Nashville, @ Duluth. "a:
cairo, 8; keokak, Is: Moorehead, 40; ~. Louis,
nr 81 Paul, is: Huron. 80; Lcavenworth. 20;
vVmaha 2s bismarck, 80, Fort Buiord, SIS; 81.
Mobile MAS so enl t1Ts s Gary Az Little Rssk
- land and New Orleans. Is. This is I'VE degrees
% ,S~sr or than ever eve before recorded in
thick formed at IN Jaeso aa r Fo n%Se
oranges remaining on the trees were frozen.
iso ar,ees s 1rSm the principal oraneegrowing
LOIS ions Oh florioa report great damage TO vege-
tables, oranges and fruit crops generality The
thermometer reached the lowest point since
when All the orange trees were killed 20 the
ground throughout the state. on Deceinber 80.
ground In the latter Instance 100 a,SN. , .o
was the lowest point reached in the state. AZ
Sainesviie saturday night 11e was touched.
Inc Oldest groves are seriously injured whtla
young groves and nurseries are a total lo.s AZ
81 Augustine the thermometer Registered ooo
hias oranss crops on the trees and early vegeta-
phghted. Ice formed an inch and q hall thick.
~ ~ estimated that one-half OF the orange crop
OF the state has been marketed. that one-auarter
Is In packing houses and the remaining Quarter
Irozen on the trees, entailing loss OF tS6O.O 600
ana POSSIBLY g 100000 on the fruit alone. The
loss on vegetables cannot be approxim ated n
the groves are killed, as is feared an additional
loss OF several million dollars will be en- tailed
Al Atlanta the thermometer went own IN
zero Saturday night AT savannah the f,rst
iau OF snow In six years occurred At Mobile
the cold, above, was the greatest since 1852.
galveston bay Is frozen over, the first time
since 1852, and the ice nine inches thick From
al parts of the south similar reports come OF
the coolest weather In years, and great damage
BLocKApEs ON THE RAILROADS..
Inc storm at Charlestown, w. Va, was the
worst ever known there. A south-bound train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Valley road cot
stuck In drift about half a mile from Charles.
nos,aed da 81. evening. ana the passengers were
ments possible. A terrific wind prevailed and
snow was nying through the air. making travel
the city, number OF citizens, among them Drs
Long and Fouik, George f. Light Chsrles
Lamar, Sergeant Avis and Others went in search
oI the passengers. W hen they reached the train
tney found = number OF ladies, children and
gentlemen, and, with the aid OF two hotel
hacks, endeavored TO bring them 60 the CITY
After proceeding a short distance the sniae last
ms way, and the hacks were held fast In a ,sriS
VIII the temperature at freezing point and the
10 venture ON foot, but there was no other alter
native Ths ladies were taken from tie hack
sars 20 tne city Among the passengers
Mn. Snaimers. two children and nurse aud
David Sundheimer, OF Washington, were on the
The Western Maryland railroad, in the sweep
OF the Blue Ridge mountains between Nerhan.
icstown and Pen-Mar is blockaded by snow 10
the depth OF hfteen feet Four passenger trains
and several loaded freight trains are unable lo
move, ana fourteen engines are working 10 get
them out The blockade commenc I'd saturday
morning and the large number of passengers
are being made as comfortable as possible, but
there is believed TO be considerable suffering
among them.
Plttsburg dispatch saws the SNOW blockaa.
on the railroads is almost unprecedented. No
attenuon has been paid to schedule and all
Trains are from TO 10 hours late. In many
instances trains have been abandoned and on
several OF the smaller roads traffic has been
entirely suspended. On the main line of the
fennsylvania railroad the trains are from z TO
10 hours late. The limited express west, which
was que at Pittsburg at 8 O'Clock SATURDAY.
night arrived at 10 O'clock Sunday morning.
having been snow-bound at Gist station. The
last nna east, which ieft Pittsburg Saturday
nlgnt, stuck near Penn station and did not get
away until sunday morning. All the trains
were provided with from three 20 five enefnea
On the wheeling branch Of the Baltimore and
ouio, Ine CINCINNATI express, which started
rom fittsburg Saturday night, returned sun.
day evening, having been snowbound. a law
miles out from the city, nearly fifteen hours.
Loss OF LIFE AT SEA.
number OF marine disasters were caused by
the gale. The schooner Mary @. Farr, from
baltimore for Providence, went ashore on the
New Jersey coast, and all on board were lost.
The storm made sad havoc among the shfp-
ping along the New England coast, many YES.
sells being driven ashore and coasters blown
out to sea. The barometric record is the lowest
since 1877. Among the disasters reported was
the schooner Mile Trim, Capt. Olsen, from
coal, which went ashore on Calf Island Sstur.
day morning At O'Clock during q heavy gale.
ana became total wreck. All hands were
covered all the bodies but one-that Of . saiioe
known as Frederick.