Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-11
FORT WORTH TEXAS. MONDAY. JANUARY ii. 1856.

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with from three TO I've engines. on the
Wheeling branch OF the Baltimore 6 Ohio
the Cincinnati express which started from
here last night returned this evening, hav-
Ing been snow-bnund q few miles from
this city nearly fifteen hours. The south
west branch Of the Pennsylvania railway
Is totally hlookaded ana the trains are
abandoned The West PENNSYLVANIA and
Castle Shsnnon roads have vlrtu.
ally suspended operations. The
cold has been intense, the
mercury lowering about zero all day.
Passengers on the snow-bound trains ex-
perlenced considerable Inconvenience
nom cold and hunger. Great suffering
among live stock Is reported AZ the
East Liberty yards several head az cattle
are said to have died from exposure and
many more are ~ q dying condition. In
Washington county the farmers were
taken nnawarcs and whole 1ocks OF sheep
which had not been properly sheltered
are reported 70 have froze so death.
ALONG TftE NEw MNGIAND COAST.
BosToS, MASS, Jau. lO--Rcports con-
tinue TO come from points alone the
coast which show that the storm OF Fri
day night worked havoc among shipping.
A dispatch from provincetown says a
large feet OF schooncrs, Including three
masters, were off the Highland light at
sunset Friday night, several OF which
reached Proyincetown in safety, but
many others were driven ashore or
pounded together. No lives are reported
lost, but tho life-saying crews were kept
busy and there were many narrow
escapes. The tug Confidence and lighter
Aid, with two sets of divers, bound for
bark Ibis, ashore on Stone Horse shoal,
arrived Friday night for harbor. These
are the people about whom much anxiety
was felt during the day. In Boston
the life.saving station reports an unknown
three pounded along the bars for
about mile at daybreak and finally went
| clear out In the bay Her crew were in
the rigging and the vessel had lost her
rudder and some sails. Ii was impossi-
BILE to aid her. A number o! coasters
were probably blown out to sea. The
wind reached a velocity Of seventy miles
per hour ct one time.
A SAD WRECK.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. l0.--The loss
OF the schooner Mary S. Farr with every
1 soul on board is, perhaps, the saddest
disaster of the gale, The Inflated vessel
was driven ashore aud caught fire, but
not one OF those on board escaped to
tell the story. dispatch from Spring
| Latte, N j., says that late on Friday
night bright light was seen off the life
saving station. The high wind and driv-
ing snow made life. saving almost an Inn
| possibly. Twice the boom OF signal
gun rang across the water and the saving
rope was sent towards the vessel, but
in vain. The crew OF the burned vessel
| launched a boat, hut In moment u went
| to pieces aud iis occupants drowned
Later the vs 81 dflfte,l ushore, ant9she Is
! total wreck The female apparel
| washed ashore indicates that the cap.
tain's wife or other women were on
board.
Al CHICAGO.
| Chicago, liz, Jan. I0.-Since mid
night yesterday the temperature here has
gradually fallen touching / 9 below zero
ut 10 o'clocs tonight. Very little snow
has fallen during the last tweniy.four
hours, though reports from outside the
city show that the blizzard is still in
force. Where the trains are not detained
| bv snow they are DELAYED in
some cases several hours by
the severity of the temperature
The morning trains on the different roads
were delayed from three to twelve hours
to-day, the last to arrive being the New
York limited The fury of the storm hav-
| ing apparently exhausted itself no further
impeachment to railroad travel Is antlcl-
pated except from the cold.
At midnight here the wind has fallen 10
a slight breeze and the night is clear.
AT CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, ONO, Jan. l0.--The Their
mometer at O'Clock this morning regis
tered l0' below zero. II rose during the
day, but began sinking in, the afternoon
aud at 1880 tonight marks g below.
The railways are nearly all crippled,
many trains being eleven hours late,
Traffic on the Cincinnati Southern and
Chesapeake & Ohio lines has been practl-
cally suspended.
AT ST. PAUL.
| ST. PAUL, MINI, Jan. l0--Specials
| from points In the Northwest show that
| the cold wave Is still on, mercury ranging
from 20 to 25', varying with the locality
and exposure. Tonight the cold Is in.
tensied again. There is no more snow
and the old ismoved but little by winds.
There is no serious embarrassment la the
movement Of trains except from the eX-
IRENE cod.
INDICATIONS.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. IL, n. m.-East
Gulf states Fair, slightly warmer
weather, preceded in the morning by
nearly stationary temperatures winds
generally northerly but becoming yari-
able.
West Gulf states: Fair weather, sta
tionary followed by slowly rising temper
AZURE, northerly winds, becoming yari-
able.
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