The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-01-28
Intense Cold in the West, South and
North.
Further loss of Life-Insaensc sno
Drifts.


Ter Saturday, January 81, was the coolest
en- ever known at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
the Z O'Clock In the morning a standard Cove
ms meat thermometer stood 4S below zero,
cry lowest that can be registered on it.
or Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the thermomt
full marked 6S below. The temperature at {
INK cago on Saturday morning was ten degr
!, it below zero, and at night it went two degr
It'll lower.
The body of Charles Wilson, another vic
its of the blizzard, was found in Hamln cour
or. Dakota, on Saturday. He left Castlewc
tor with snow shoes on about a week previo
err Miss Little of Geneva reported lost, has BIZ
10 found safe and well with her school child
of at a neighboring farmers also George Pow,
We who went to her rescue. Two passen,
tly trains from Minneapolis, which had BE-
r. blockaded, reached Milbank, Dakota.
ry Saturday, the first from the East since
lat 10th. Conductors reported drifts as high
telegraph poles.
,ly The body of Edward Dunn, a cattle deal
Id was found near Adrian, Michigan, on Sat,
day morning. He had been buying cal,
ht and was driving home, when his team becal
~ unmanaseable and ran away, capsizing /
ry calf rack. which in falling pinned him to
re earth, where he froze to death, being anal
:? to extricate himself -o-
n, number of kilograms -yexcess O. tho
lg the Union Pacific her -
e. Thursday and II source effe received at
SfTU,242. Al. ,..rr -adquarters in Omaha
- Friday, saying that the coal
cafs of the company had been sacked by
There is great scarcity of coal along the
line of the road in Western Nebraska, and
the inhabitants during the recent blizzard
have taken forcibe measures to replenish
their stocks of fuel. On Wednesday of last
week one hundred men took possession of
two cars loaded with coal at Cozad, and the
performance was repeated on Thursday at
Shalton. Similar occurrences are reported |
from Gibbons and Kearney.
Following are below zero temperatures re: +
ported on Monday morning from New Hamp-,
shire: Keene, "a; Swansey, SO; MARROW, 30; /
Hinsdale, %; Ashuelot, %; Nashua, "a;
Dover, 20; Great Falls, %; Pennington, %;
New Durham, "a; Derry Depot, 26. Haver-
mometer in towns on the south shore are
from 10 to Is below. In Bloomfield, Con-
necticut, it was % below and in Hartford, ii |
below. Sunday night was the coolest of the {
season at Calais, Maine, and Monday morn
ing the temperature there was % below zero.
St. Andrews Bay is frozen over for the first
time in many years. Saturday and Sunday
were the coolest days ever experienced at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the thermometer in
dicating SO to Sc below zero. Two men
working in logging camp on the West Fork
of the Black river were found frozen to death
near the camp on Sunday.
A dispatch from Lampasas, Texas, says:
" Another blizzard struck this section Satur-
day night. Il is estimated that fully 10000
sheep persisted last week in the counties ef
Lampasas, Brown, Hamilton, Coryell and
San Saba, all large ool-producing counties.
Colonel Charles Covington, of Coryell county,
lost 800 head of sheep il one flock. The
flock came up near the house at shutdown and
lay down in the drizzling rain, Next morn
ing Col. CoviRgton concluded TO salt this
flock. When he scattered salt on the frozen
earth to his surprise none of the sheep arose,
and an examination revealed that every one
of the large flock was frozen stiff. Their
wool, clinging to the ice, had prevented their
rising when the sudden change of tempera-
ture came. In San Saba county large
rauchman, with half dozen cowboys. went
out hunting stock, and returning half frozen,
they left their foaming horses standing out
side while they entered the house. Half an
hour afterward the horses were found dead
covered with ice.
A telegram from Neche, Dakota, says the
mercury went down to 90 below and the wind
reacneQ velocity Oh ~ miles an nOur luere
on Monday night 1t was still blowing Tues
day, and trains were ten hours late. The
STORM reached Brainerd Tuesday morning.
Snow was falling and the wind was blowing
gale.
The heaviest snow storm of the season be-
gan at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Monday
night. and continued all next day. The
roads are almost impossible.
The Browns Valley branch of the Manito-
ba Railroad, which has been blockaded since
December 18th, was opened to Wheeler on
tuesday, and train load of fuel reached
Crowns Valley, Minnesota. The fuel supply
in most towns along the road was exhausted
some days ago, and farmers have been bum
ng hay, oats and seed wheat,
Estimates of the loss Of life by the blizzard u
Of January lI-13, is now placed at from $50 b
o 400. It is hoped that it is not correct, but
t will not be fully determined until the snow
ias melted how many persisted.
The snow storm at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
On Tuesday night, was the worst known there
'ior years. Railway travel is again demoraliz
3D. The harbors of North Sydney, Digby,
Yarmouth and Annapolis are frozen solid for
,he first time ia years.
The worst snow storm for 95 years prevailed
throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New
ork and the New England States. on Wed
nesday and Thursday. Railroads, streets and
county roads were blocked. The wind was
blowing at fearful rate, and the mercury
ranged from 10 to 30 below zero