Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-01-16
THE STORM KING.
THE WORST WEATHER ON REC
ORD,
Intense Sufferings by Both Man
and Beast-Many Vessels
Wrecked at Sea.

The storm which made its appearance Fri
day evening by sudden and heavy fall of
snow, accompanied by rising wind and falls
ing thermometer, is ono Of the most wide>
spread and severe ever witnessed on this con-
tinent. Since the beginning of scientific
meteorological observations it h IS been with-
out a Parallel. Sections of cou try have been
touched by storms curing which the Their
mometer has recc rded q lower degree, the
snowfa heavier or the wind higher, but no
case is known in which all these elem nts of
a genuine blizzard have simultaneously
extended from the froz,n regions of the North
to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Rocky
mountains TO the Atlantic ocean.
That railroads should be block adei by snow
in the northwes is no unusual circumstance,
but that the same blizzard which bockades
them should wreck many vessels on the New
England coast, freeze man to death at Cor
pus Christi and free re over Galveston bay is
an event long to he remembered
kilograms from all parts of the country
tell of disasters by the heavy snow and BIAS
ing gale. In New York the street cars are
drawn by fur and six horses, all trains are
behind time, the heavy mails are delayed,
houses unroofed and ferry boats blockaded
At Long Branch % hotels have been unroofed
Many vessels We're driven ashore on the At-
lantic coast, and all hands are believed to be
lost Eleven dead bodies were washed ashore
at Astury Park In Philadelphia business
almost suspended; street cars have stoppe
running, viii O. are down and payenlc nts COW
cred with several feet Of snow. Two hug
drsd men are employed near AL oona shovel
ing Snow, and fine it impossible to keep the
track Gear.
In Western Pennsylvania the snow reaches
the depth of 23 inches. Near Uniontown an
express train is showed in the Mt. Braddock
cut. The snow is up to the top of the cars
and four engines find it impossible to move it
either way. The teamsters at West Newton
retu'e to work, and people with empty coal
bins will have to go to bed to keep warm.
Farmers who attempted to drive into Beaver
Falls were compelled to cut loose their horses
and abandon their sleds. Ohio looms up with
similar S cries of the storm. At Youngstown
work is a most suspended, minnedosa, Man
itoba, boasts temperature of fifty two de-
greas below zero. Iowa kilograms report the
storm as the coolest and most destructive ex
perienced for many years. At Des Mones
the clearing of track had to be abandoned on
account OF the severi of the weather. Gal,
We ton Bay is frozen over for thu first time
in many years. The ex RENE cold frosted
the Mexican border. At Salisbury, Nd, tie
win BILE " the river over III. town until the
entire business portion was fl ooded Schooners
and steamers were swept ashore. At Jack
sonville, Fla, the orange crop is destroyed
The weather is the coolest at Mobile since
1852. The loss to the cotton crop III A o.
bama will aggregate 10000 dollars.
New Orleans, Birmingham, Ala, Sa-
vannah, Cplumbur, S. c., all report
the coolest we ,ther ever experienced
A passenger train ran into two shifting
engines at Wilmington, DEL, and immedi
ately after the wreck the cars took fire. Three
persons were killed and several injured. A
tug nd lighter, with so men, from Boston
went tie the relief of the wrecked bark ibis
M t;dings have been received from them, and
fears are entertained fer theirsafety. TIE
schooner Mary G. Farr was driven ashore neal
Philade PHI and burned. All on board were
lost