Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-12
GENERAL NEWS.
C0LDEST WEATHER EVER KNOWN
IN THE SOUTH.
Great Ice Gorge in New York-Op
position to Cremation-SiDSul
Suicide-Foreign Items.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UN1os.l
DOMESTIC.
The Cold Wave.

The Cold Wave.
CHATTANOOGA (Tenn.), January 11th.-
The minimum temperature at the Signal
office this morning was 70 below zero. Dis
! patches from towns throughout east Ten.
nessee, north Georgia and north Alabama
say that last night was the coolest ever
known, the stock suffering greatly.
MOBILE (Ala-), January 11th.-The cold
est weather ever known in the South has
prevailed since last Friday night This
morning the mercury registered 120 above.
/ New YORK, January 1lth.-The Worlds
Jacksonville fla special says: The cold
last night and to-day has been intense
throughout Florida, the lowest point the
! thermometer reached here being 90 above
zero. This is the coolest weather that has
been felt here since the great freeze of Feb
ruary ., 1885. when all the orange trees
throughout the State were killed The
oranges on the trees are now frozen hard.
Interviews with prominent orange-growers
in various sections of the State reveal the
fact that they think the trees have been
killed. Many others seem to think differ
entity, but they admit that the crop will be
badly set back. They say the trees were in
line condition to withstand freeze, owing
to the fact that the winter had been I'M
usually cold and the trees were well ma
tured and hardened. About one-half the
crop has been marketed, leaving about one
quarter gathered and in packing-house
and the other quarter still on the trees
The loss to the growers from damaged fruit
alone will probably reach 100000 In
tense anxiety is felt by the orange-growers
throughout the State as another hard
freeze is anticipated tonight.
JACKSONVILLE Ella }, JaDuary 11th.-This
I l. -1., I'll Il. e u, 1
fects of which have been felt throughout
Florida, so far as heard from. The tenn
perature began falling Friday night, and
Saturday night the thermometer recorded
2l0 at the Signal office and 150 in exposed
places. This morning it was DO at the
Signal office and $50 where exposed. The
temperature fell to 150 at Fernandina Sun
day; TO 200 at ST. Augustine, and is re-
ported to have fallen to 16o as far south as
Tampa. The damage done is less than ex-
pected. All the oranges remaining on the
trees are frozen, and the lemon trees in
northern Florida are probably killed, but
beyond losing their leaves, it is not believed
that the orange trees are injured anywhere
il the State.
KANSAS CITY, January 11th.-The condi-
ton of the Western railroads is little better
than for several days past. Another snow
Kansas, impeding the work of clearing the
tracks. There are no through trains on
the lines west from here in or out tonight.
New York, January 12th-A. M.-The
Hudson river, from Peekskill nearly to Al
bany, is mass of ice, which is as smooth
as glass. For sixty miles skaters can glide
along the great ice field. There has not
been as smooth a field of ice in many years.
At every village and city along the river
one sees scores of persons skating upon the
river, and others hard at work preparing
the ice yachts for service.
GALVESTON TEX January l1th.-Henry
Hodge, hunter, was found frozen to death
In his boat to-day. This is the fourth vic
Tim OF Fridays storm.
BALTIMORE, January 18th. - Passengers
who were snowbound on the Western
Maryland Railroad. yesterday, were brought
back to this city to-day. The blockade was
the worst eyer experienced in this vicinity.
and the men who were sent from here to
clear away the snow suffered greatly from
the intense cold. Reports from down the
bay show that the cold is the most intense
that has been known for years Heavy ice
has formed in all the tributaries and all the
bay streams, and intense suffering is re-
ported among. the men engaged in OYSTER
dredging, and it is feared that many lives
have been lost. Cattle trains arriving from
the West are bringing many frozen beasts.
THE sUsoUEHANNA GoRGED.
PORT DEPOSIT Md, January 11th-The
Susquehanna Is gorged from point three
niles south of Port Deposit, to consider
able distance north. The water is backed
up into town, and all the cellars and base
| ments in the lower portion are filed to a
/ n r
further trouble are being made.
PeriIs of the Sea.
BALTIMORE, January I0th.-The schooner
Crissie Wright, Capt. Clark, which sailed
from baltimore for Savannah on December
3oth last, was lost at sea off Beaufort n. c.,
on Sunday. Only one man of her crew OF
eight was saved. The Signal Station al
Fort Macon, n. c., reports that Capt. Thas.
T Clark, the mate and one sailor, were
found dead in the rigging. One sailor was
rescued. Three men were washed away.
NEW YORK, January 11th.-The steamer
State OF Nevada, from Glasgow, which ar
rived here yesterday, reports having been
within one hundred miles of this port for
the last three days, with terrific hurricane
from the east southeast, then going all
round the compass, during which the
vessel was badly iced up.
NORFOLK (Va.), January 11th.-Tbe
schooner ). +. kirwin, Captain Martineau.
hence tor Baltimore was sunk off Sewell's
Point on Saturday night. The Captain,
mate and crew were in the rigging during
Saturday night, and were rescued SUNDAY
morning and brought here all severely
frost-bitten.
New HAVEN Conn, January 11th.-The
schooner Doretta Kahn, of Greenport, is
missing, and 1t is supposed that this is the
vessel that went down west of Charles
Island during the storm of Friday night
Nothing definite has been learned as to the
fate of the crew.
FIRE ISLAND, January 11th.-The British
steamer Hylton Castle, Captain Calvin
from New York January 9th for Rouen'
France, foundered twelve miles south of
Fire Island light at 10 o'clock this morn
ing. One boat, in charge of the first mate.
with crew of nine men, effected a land
ing five miles east of here. A second boat
with a crew of ten men, under command
of the Captain, left the steamer at the same
time, and when last seen all but three of
the oars had been broken.
Osweso River Gorged With Ice.
SYRACUSE On. ", January 11th.-Tbe
ice gorge in the Oswego river becomes
firmer and larger every hour, as immense
quantities of ice are constantly coming
down the river. The water has risen more
than two feet since last night, and is rising
several inches an hour. The damage al
ready done cannot be estimated. Fully
seventy five families have oeen driven from
their homes, and others are constantly
moving out. The families are poor. and