New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-07
DEEP SNOW IN THE SOUTH.
TwENTY-sIx NCHFs In NORTH CAROLINA.
FALLING ALL DAY AT MOBrLE-DRIFrs BLOCK THB
ROADS ~ VIRGINIA

FALLING ALL DAY AT MOBfLE-DRIfrs BLOCK THE
ROADS ~ VIRGINIA
MOBILE. Ala. Dec 6.-There considerable fall Of
SNOW here from daylight to dark yesterday at times fall
AsHEvmLE ". c., Dec 6.-snow has fallen 10 tho
depth OF 26 inches and Is still falling Traffic and travel
OF all kinds suspended The weight Of the snow crushed
In the roof OF the Asheve Tobacco Works and large
socR OF smokng tobacco ruined The loss IL heavy
, Inc 1 snelon factory with large stock Of tobacco
provision house OF Dickson Watson
LfScHBURG. Va, Dec 6.-snow has fallen almost con-
uhuousy siuce Saturday morning. and IS
Inches In depth This the heaviest fall snce 1874 M
street cars have run since yesterday
WINCHESTER, Va. Dec 6.-Tbe inches OF snow which
fell on Saturday and yesterday been followed by an
other fall to-day Many farmers have much corn oat
Indications to night are for heavy drifts A biting wind
Is blowing from the Northwest Winter has begun In this
locality much earlier than usual Ice several inches thick
has been gathered.
HARRrsosBORG. Va, Dec. 6.-snow has been falling
continually for sixty hours and still it SHOWS The snow
CHICAGO, Dee. Ga dispatch from Chattanoooa Tenn
says The roof OF the stock OF the DAYTON Coal
ana b COMPANY caved In last night account of
man, man one Kern and half dozen negroes we're at work
die Kerner was also fatally injured.
THE LAKE FLEET COVERED WITH ICE
DETROIT, Dec 6.For week the last grain feet Of tho
was left In fair weather. but Wednesday cold snap Of
almost unequalled severity attacked them and the feet
was compelled slowly to feel the along. nothing be-
ing visible Every wave broke the decks,
freezing the rigging and delugng the
sailors with spray which Immediately froze
upon them All through the storm gangs men had To
be kept at work OF the boats cbopping the cs
off the decks and throwing as formed
usually being sufficient reach Buffalo, Early yester.
day morning they reached Lake ST. Clair to lind i'm.
were sent TO their assistance 1t took the icecrshers all
day to get the grain feet down to Detroit Here they
The pOpsers arrived '0r to this %ornn:
were the susquehanna: Rochester Comodore, Idaho.
and Tioga the latter towing the j. Jewett which had
lost her rudder The entire feet sheathe in Ice from
left the various docks and moved down river together
with the three eyboats ahead ready to crush heavy
are among the largest the lake aud the with which
ne Inc rgng and egwarss were vrsted shone in the sun
estimated at $l000.O00 The cargoes of grain, fax
seed, oil cake and flour.
DISASTERS TO COAsTING VESSELS
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 6.-The schooner Emily Shepard,
from Portland Conn, for Philadelphia with brownstone
was struck by heavy northeast gale the night Of
December A. eight miles north Of Northeast Lghtshp on
Five FathOm Bank causing her cargo to shift The ves-
sci filled ard sank The captain and crew rescued
by the steamer Harrisburg from Portsmouth, and landed
here.
SALEM Mass, Dec 6-The Schooner Savannah OF BAN
gor umberladen. went ashore last night the Goose
berry and went to pieces.
MARsHFIELD, Mass. Dec. 6-The two-masted schooner
New Packet OF Mllbridge. Captain Strout from Calais.
November 90 for Boston with cargo OF shingles and
boards ashore here this morning and lies high
up on the beach
CHICAGO, Dec. Ga dispatch from Erie, Penn, pub
shed here this morning. says The propeller Clarion
came in Sunday from Chicago. Her experience
Between the high Winds heavy and ice,
she was twentyOne days her trip. When she came In
she had coat OF eight inches Of ice Upon entering Eric
she encountered ice four inches thick She reports tho
Connemaugh. Lycoming Iron Chief and woocooken Ice
bound at the head OF the lake The Clarion forced her
way for distance or forty miles through heavy ice t
Is feared that the boats out will not be able 10 get n The
fishermen. In their anxiety their nets. OF which
there thousands OF dollars worth In the lake their
way out With steamtIgs Sunday morning hat when tney
attempted TO get back they found the channel covered
with four or five inches OF ice aud themselves imprisoned
Anxiety Is felt for their safety.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-rhe Signal Corps station at
Chincoteagne Va reports under date OF December 8,
that the twomasted schooner Emily A. Bare from New
York to Virginia is ashore Walops Beach The crew
were all saved.
The signal Corps Station at Cape Henry. Va, reports
schooner Pangussett 80 tons, with cargo OF railroad
iron and brick New-York Norfolk. Va, Captain
Anderson ashore miles south OF the station at
n he Wp lipals aXa1