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LATER REPORTS.


the extreme Northwest, the marking at Hell
ena, Montana, on Monday, having been 10
above zero. The lowest record was at Mime
dosa, "a below zero. The temperature at
Chicago fell to 16 degrees below zero during
Sunday night. Monday morning at o. clock
it was 7 below. At the same hour the Signal
Service reported temperatures of II below zero
at Des Moines, Iowa; IA at Fargo, Dakota,
and 20 below at st. Paul, Minnesota
Throughout Illinois on Sunday night, the
thermometer registered Is to "a degrees be-
low zero Two men have been frozen to
death in Colorado, near the Western Kansas
line; several have persisted in Illinois, and one
man was frozen to death in Burlington, Iowa,
on Saturday night, while going home from a
barber shop.
A temperature of 70 below zero was re-
ported by the Signal Service at Chattanooga
Monday morning. In East Tennessee, North
Georgia and North Alabama, Sunday night
was the coolest ever known.
| The weather at Augusta, Georgia, Monday
morning, was colder than at Philadelphia or
New York, the Signal Service record being
| SOB above zero. The mean temperature OF
the last three days at Augusta is the lowest
known since the establishment of the Signal
Office. The Savannah river is filled with
floating ice and the canal is frozen over. A
telegram from Charleston reports that in the
upper counties of South Carolina the mercury
marks from zero to below The rivers and
creeks from Charleston to Beaufort are froz-
en-, and the cabbage crop on the Sea Islands
is killed. Steamers arriving at Charleston ON
Monday cut their way through ice an inch
thick Two colored men have been frozen to
death at Abbeville.
Monday was the third day of the cold spell
in Florida. At Jacksonville, on Saturday
morning, the temperature was 80 above zero,
and on Saturday evening 81; Monday morning
it was %. On Sunday it was Is at Fernan-
dina and 20 at st. Augustine, and is reported
to have fallen to IS as far south as Tampa, on
the Gulf coast. All the oranges remaining
on the trees are frozen, and the lemon trees
are believed to be frozen down to the surface
of the ground.
The Signal Service thermometer at Jack
sonville, Florida, on Monday night recorded
a temperature of Is $40 above zero-more
than three degrees below the lowest previous
record at the office. The young orange trees
are believed to be killed to the surface of the
ground; the older ones are supposed to have
sustained little injury. AT st. Augustine and
Fernandina, temperatures OF 10 degrees were
noted. and at Punta Rosa q degrees. There
was a slight snow furry at Tampa on Monday
afternoon. The severe cold and snow at
Chattanooga has caused such stoppage OF
0,UU
ttute people had to be relieved by charity on
Monday A scarcity of fuel is threatened.
The weather continued very severe throughout
Virginia and the Carolinas Tuesday and Tues
day night. Snow fell on Monday morning at
Indianola, Galveston and Brownsville, Texas.
The fall at Galveston during the morning was
six inches-the heaviest ever known there.
The cold weather in Pittsburg, Pa, is play
ing havoc with live stock. Since Monday
noon, $50 hogs have died at the East Liberty
Stock Yards, the most of them frozen to
death.
Temperatures below zero were reported in
Northern New York on Tuesday morning as
follows: Plattsburg, 81; Lake George 80;
Warrensburg, SO; Whitehall, %; Fort Ann,
%; Port Henry, "a; Ticonderoga, "a, Water
town, 49, Buffalo, 5; Troy, Is, and Newburgh,
In New England Tuesday morning, the fol-
lowing temperatures below zero were record
ed Lancaster, New Hampshire, SO; More
town, Vermont, 40; Foxborough. Massachu-
sets, IA; Waterbury, Connecticut, 20; and
Litch6eld, Connecticut, 81. Dispatches last
night from points in Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont report the mercury ranging from
10 to 25 degrees below zero, and still falling
The following deaths from freezing were
reported Tuesday in the West: Thomas Del
isle, at Council Bluffs, Iowa; I. Myers and
c. Ramsey, at Seymour, Indiana; Andrew
Scheffer, at Ironton, Michigan; and Chock
Ranny, at Ewing, Indiana. William McLo-
ney, aged 60 years, a wealthy farmer, was
found frozen to death in his sleigh near Akron,
Ohio, Tuesday.
The three masted schooner L. b. Wither-
spoon, from Surinam for Boston, struck on
Miacouret Rip, Nantucket, during terrific
gale on Monday morning The sea ran SO
high that no life-boat could reach the vessel,
and lines were thrown. Two men, Burdeck
Berry, of Bristol; and Charles Wull, of Bos-
ton, were saved in an exhausted condition;
the captain, A. FL. Anderson, and the rest of
the crew, five in number, persisted. The ves-
sci has gone to pieces.
Reports from the Life Saving Service show
that fifteen vessels were wrecked within the
scope Of the operations of the service during
the storms of Friday night and Saturday morn
ing last and that the crews of fourteen of
them were rescued, while that fonly one was
lost. The latter vessel was the schooner Mary
G. Farr which went ashore in flames in the
night time at Spring Lake, New Jersey. 1t
was found impossible to render any aid to her
crew, and it is believed from latest reports
received that of all the persons on board of
her two only were alive when she struck the
shore.
THE STORM IN MARYLAND.
The Western Maryland Road had a hard
time of it. A graphic account of the battle
with the snow blockade is furnished from
Western Maryland official sources, as follows:
s'The severe wind-storm which prevailed
Saturday night and all day Sunday in the
Blue Ridge mountains and at other elevated
points upon the Western Maryland Railroad
so filled the cuts with snow that the trains
which left Baltimore at 1925 ?. M. Saturday
(Southern express) and P. NJ. Williams
port passenger) became showed up about mid
way between Mechanicstown and Blue Ridge
Summit. The first reached point one mile
east of Sabilasville, and the second was
stopped near Deerfeld. Although each had
two engines upon it, it was impossible to force
their way through the drifts. At 11.30 ?. NJ.
a relief train was sent from Mechanicstown,
but owing to the continuance of the high wind
and the severe cold, it was found impossible
to render any practical assistance until after
daylight. The men could only remain in ex-
posed places for few minutes at time, and
the snow blew int the cuts faster then they
could remove it A large additional force
was sent forward by the fast mail train Sun
day morning, also drawn by two heavy en-
eines, but owing to new drifts which had
formed between Mechanicstown and Deerheld,
this train was delayed some three hours.
dug out in turn, and passengers sent back as
soon as possible to the city. The fast mail,
due at Baltimore at P. NJ. Saturday, was
able to reach Blue Ridge Summit, where 1t
was side-tracked until relief trains were sent
from Hagerstown to assist in removing the
heavy drifts upon the east side of the noun
tain The two forces met at about T. M,
and at about the same time the train which
had been sent to open the Baltimore and
Cumberland Valley Railroad arrived at Ship
pensburg, SO by 2. NJ. Sunday the whole
line was open upon andwest of the mountain.
While this was being done, however, new
drifts were forming at several points between
Westminster and Mechanicstown, and addi
tional trains were sent from Union Bridge to
assist those which had been relieved upon the
mountain. and which had been again detained
at these points. At noon on Sunday there
we're fourteen engines in the snowdrifts upon
the mountain, some buried in snow fifteen
feet deep, so that only the top of stack and
other high portions could be seen, the drifts
continuing to form after they had stopped
This was the case with the coaches to such an
extent that the passengers we're unable to
leave them, and there was great difficulty In
keeping them comfortable. Food was pro-
yided from several farm houses for the pas