The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-17
WINTER ON IT'S THRONE.
THE COLD SNAP STILL ON ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY.


Truck Farmers Killed and No Early
Shipments Will Be Possible This
Year-The Mercury Doing It's Best to
Drop Through the Bottom of the
thermometer.
CHARLESTON, s. c., Jan. 16.-The un-
precedented cold weather here has caused
the most intense suffering among poor and
rich alike. The peculiar construction Of
the residence houses renders them almost
incapable of being heated with tempera-
ture below 800, a thing rarely happening
till this year. 1t has been freezing almost
daily here since Christmas, and the suffer-
ing is intense and widespread. To-day the
mercury went down to go and ice has re-
NAMED in the streets all day, even in the
sun. Benjamin Lamb, a white street car
driver, is the first victim Of the cold. He
was frozen on Friday night, after finishing
his days work, and died this morning from
che effects of exposure. The results of
she cold on the truck farms around
Charleston, which furnish early vegetables
for the New York and Chicago markets,
will be very serious. There will be no early
shipments this spring. Most of the crops
in the ground and cannot be replanted till
there is thaw. Such prolonged cold
spell has never before been known here.
IN THE CENTRAL SOUTH.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, Jan 16.-Nsver in the
history of the central south has there been
so much suffering from cold weather as at
present. All the rivers are blocked with
ice and snow. rendering passage over them
impossible. Many trains are late and some
have been abandoned by their suffering
crews. Most intense suffering is prevalent
among the mountaineers. The snow is from
10 inches to feet deep in Eastern Tennes-
see and Western North Carolina and Eastern
Kentucky, and all kinds of labor Is sus-
pended.
JCEBERGsl wELLll wELLlll
MEMPHIS, TENN Jan. 16, II P. M.-The
Mississippi river is full of floating icebergs
from Cairo 60 Vicksburg and the prospects
for navigation for the next three weeks are
exceedingly gloomy. All of the boats in
the Memphis trade have been Withdrawn
and placed in safe harbors and they will not
be put in commission again until all danger
from ice is removed.
The suspension of river traffic has caused
widespread destitution throughout this
section Of the Mississippi valley. Thou
sands of negroes have been thrown out of
employment and hundreds of them are on
government and a number OF wealthy
citizens have taken steps to establish places
10 different portions of the city where soup
and lunches will be furnished to the destl-
tute free Of charge until they can find en-
ports along the river disclose an
New Madrid, Mo-. Osceola, Ark, and Gold
dust, Tenn. the negroes have been driven
to desperation from hunger, Scores of them
have become highwaymen aud burglars to
secure money to keep body and soul to-
gether. A similar state of affairs exists at
several points below Memphis.
The Tennessee and Cumberland rivers are
frozen over from the headwsters to the
Ohio for the first time in thirty five years.
At Sheffield, Ala. the ice is three iuches
thick In the Tennessee. and the water works
are frozen. A water famine prevails, and
if FIRE should occur the whole town would
be destroyed.
WAY BELOW ZERO IN WISCONSIN.
MILWAUKEE, WIS, Jan. 16.-Dispatches
from all parts of the state report the cold
est weather for years. In Milwaukee it
was lac below zero yesterday. AT Sparta
the mercury froZe solid at 400 below; at
Whitehall it was 450 below; Lacrosse So,
Medtord 42o, Neenah $50, WaJertown 800,
Kaukauken 35a.
The Wnnebago Indians on the reserva-
tion near Black River falls are suffering ter
riblv.
VERY COLD AGAINST CAMDEN.
CAMDEN, 8. c., Jan. 16.-The thermome-
Ter was down early this morning to 100
above zero. The Wateree river here is
frozen over. This is the longest cold spell
that has ever occurred here.
TEN BELOW AT sTAUNToN.
sTAUNToN, VA, Jan. 16-The mercury
at 6 o'clock this morning registered los be-
low zero, the coldest weather here for forty
years.
AN OLD FASHIONED WINTER.
ST. PAUL, MINI. Jan. 16.-After three
winters that scarcely deserved the name,
the northwest is now experiencing one of
the old-fashioned kind. The present jan
uary has beaten the record for intense and
sustained cold weather, and there
is no prospect for change.
The mercury went below zero in November
aud has been above that mark only at rare
intervals since. On Christmas day il was
2o' below; about the same on New Years,
and maintained steady gain ever since.
Al st. Vincent and Minnedosa 40s below
has been reached and the cold has been
nearly as severe all over the western and
northwestern part of the state.
Yesterday a cube OF ice 9 feet thick was
cut from Vadnais lake, just outside the city,
Nnu 40 bu0 HEAVIEST b6en sluC6 Ln0 AAuOub
olock which formed the corner stone of the
Ice palace in 1886 The cold has, however,
oeen entirely without the blizzard feature,
and not only has there been an entire alb
sence of fatalities, but not case of suffer-
ing has been reported.
DEEP SNOW IN NORTH CAROLINA.
=. AsHBvILLE, N. c.. Jan. 16.-A special to
the Citizen from Hot Springs says that
snow to the depth Of six inches has fallen
there, and ice has formed in the French
broad river for distance Of a mile and a
nan. An ice gorge is piled up in the river
70 hight of fourteen feet at the hotel
Orldge and is twenty feet high at the Vest
efn North Carolina railroad bridge. 1t is
reported that at Paint Rock, on the line be-
tween North Carolina and Tennessee, that
eHe snow is nine inches deep and that the
night.
WAY BELOW ZERO.
KNOXVILLE, TENN, Jan. 16.--Not for
Anirty years has there been such severe
Weather as now prevails In this section.
ne thermometer is far below zero, and
uO1eh or more people are reported frozen
W death. Business Of all kinds is suspended, +,
ena the united efforts OF the city officials
ena church members are being utiliSe1 In
= e1 & oi the poor. ALI trains are late aud IL
nIneuls to run them on anything near
tne schedule time.
FUN FOR THE PLUMBERS.