Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27
A BANK FAILURE IN TEXAS
The Great Northern Railroad to
Build to the Pacific Coast
Fatal Fires.
1spzcuAr pur0rcH, TO THE sxoonn.u,ua..
WINTER WEATHER.
Traffic Interrupted by Heavy snoy
Storms.

tneSe last tLroe nights, has SCI every old
weather dog along South street and Battery
busy prophesying violent ebullitiens of
nature in the very near future.
VERY UNUSUAL CONDITIONS.
WASHINGTON, December Goth. The
storm yesterday morning in Louisiana
moved to the Ohio valley during Yesterday,
and in the morning was central on the
North Carolina coast, causing general and
heavy snowfslls in the middle Atlantic
States, the Ohio valley and the Lower Lake
region. A second storm is central in
Northern Minnesota, and which, connected
by the barometeric trough with the North
Carolina storm, makes the general condi-
tions very unusual. Stormy and rainy
weather will prevail, with heavy snowfalls
from the lake regions eastward.
SEVERE DAY IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, December 26th.-The pre-
dicted snow storm arrived this morning.
Pedestrians are few and far between. The
surface cars are making poor progress in
spite of the fact that four horses are trying
to do the usual work of two. The naviga-
ton on the rivers and bay is seriously in
terfered with. So far no accidents are re-
ported. This storm. which is promised to
be the worst since the blizzard of March,
1888, has been giving the South taste of
10 pdaiAt1 SAbSC ChAiN
and its center has worked its way up from
Louisiana to Tennessee. The storm pres
sion is trying to get up an area of high ba-
rometer in Lower Canada, and as New
York is in the center Of the track she will
have her full share of depression. The
Weather Bureau sent out warnings last
night to the officers of all the Eastern rail-
reads to look out for heavy snow, and
ordered northeast storm signals to be
hoisted
The mails to-day are late in arriving, the
most serious delays being TO the Western
and Southwestern mails over the Pennsyl-
vania roads.
A dispatch from Deal Beach, N. j., says
the schooner Yale, which anchored there
to-day, was terribly pounded by the storm,
and the crew had to be taken off by life.
savers. She will PROBABLY be total wreck.
sNowsroRM RAGING IN PIrTsBuRe.
PITIsBURG, December 26th.-Anoiher big
snow-storm is raging here. It has been
showing steadily eighteen hours, with no
indications of cessation. The trains are
all behind time. Street-car traffic on all
but the cable roads is suspended.
DEEP SNOW AT wILKEsBARRE.
WILKEsRARRE (Pa.), December 25th.-
The snow-storm is still raging fiercely and
snow is two or three feet deep in the
streets. The electric street railways and
horse-cars are unable to run. Trains on
all the railroads are delayed and business
Is practically suspended throughout the
Wyoming valley.
THIRTY BELOW ZERO.
LYNDoNvILLE (Vt). December 26th.-
thermometer was 400 below zero last night,
and 800 below this morning
THE TEMPERATURE IN SEVERAL PLACES.
CHICAGO, December 26th.-The tempera-
ture this morning at o'clock was as fol-
lows: Chicago. 24o; Cincinnati, 26o; st.
Louis, 2O'; Winnipeg, 12o above.
THE CHINOOK.
PIERRE S.D.), December 26th.-Chinook
winds from the west, carrying binding
clouds of dust, prevail here.
RAILROADS TIED UP.
UTICA IN. ~, December 26th.-A severe
storm prevails throughout the Mohawk
of all the railroads are late. The entire
system of electric street railroads in this
city is tied up.
SNOW IN NEW JERSEY.
AsBURY PARK On, J.), December 26th.-
A heavy snow.storm prevails here. A
| three masted schooner is stranded off the
SNOW FALLING ALL DAY.
SCRANTON, December 26th.-Snow has
been falling all day, and is now half foot
deep. The street cars are not running and
railway trains are delayed.
GAVE WAY UNDER WEIGHT OF SNOW.
ALBANY IN. ", December 26sh.-Two
sections of the roof of the New York Cen
trail round-house at West ALBANY collapsed
this afternoon under the weight of snow.
Three men were badly injured.
HEAVY GALE BLOWING.
PORTLAND (Me.), December 26th.-A
heavy gale is blowing from the northeast,
with the mercury at 100 above. Snow is
falling fast and drifts badly. Trains are
delayed.
TRAVEL DELAYED.
SPRINGFIELD Mass }, December 26th-A
storm here is delaying travel greatly, all
the railroad trains being late and the
electric street cars rendered almost useless.
Ten inches have fallen and it is still COM
ing.
SNOW FOLLOWED BY RAIN.
BALTIMORE, December 26th.-The heavy
snow-storm last night was followed by rain
to-day. Reports from Virginia and other
parts in Maryland indicate a very heavy
snowfall and much delay to traffic.
HEAVIEST STORM IN MANY YEARS.
POINT PLEASANT IN. J.). December 26th.
Reports of a heavy storm of binding
| snow is raging along the coast from Sandy
| Hook to Cape May. Telegraph and tele-
| phone wires are down, and wrecks along
| the coast are feared. Reports from all parts
| of New York State show an exceedingly
| heavy fall of snow and consequent inter
| ruption of traffic in the Mohawk valley.
The storm is unusually severe, more than
eight inches of snow having fallen to-day.
Reports from New Hampshire state that
| the snow is the heaviest in several wears.
| At Bangor, Me-, and vicinity the day was
the coolest of the season, the mercury
reaching 25o below zerot.
| Reports from several points in Vermont
report the storm the most severe in many
years. The s.reet-cars in the cities are
| blocked and railroads are seriously de-
layed.
| HEAVY STORM OF sLEET.
| LEXINGTON tKy.), December 26th.-The
| heaviest storm of sleet ever known here
| occurred yesterday afternoon and duripe
/ the night. Shade trees and telegraph and
| telephone poles we're broken and miles o.
| wire were down. The city fire alarm sys
tenn is entirely ruined.
/ sTREET.cAR TRAVEL IMpEDEp.
CINcIsNATI, December 26th.-It is esti
| mated that at least seven inches Of snow
i fell. II drifted in many places to depths O
two and three feet. Street car travel is i'm
peded.
FROZEN HARD.
PHILADELPHIA, December 26th, - Tn,
heavy snow was followed this afternoon BY