The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-01-21
THE COLD WAVE.
IL Extends from the Lakes TO the Gulf
and from Ocean to Ocean.

and from Ocean to Ocean.
The cold of last and this week has been
unprecedented in the history Of this country.
Below will be found some of the reported
temperatures
MONDAYS REPORT.
For the second time in history an ice gorge
has been formed in the Mississippi river
at Memphis. The towns along the Miss!s-
sippi, without railroad facilities, are threat
ened with coal famine on account OF the ice
| eorges in the upper rivers and the inability of
tow boats to bring down coal barges.
The temperature at Chicago on Sunday was
IS degrees below zero. During Saturday
night four men stationed at the water works
crib, on the lake, were badly frozen.
Temperatures in Minnesota were reported
on Saturday of from 10 degrees below at St.
Paul to 81 below at Fairbault, and of 40 be-
low at White Hall, Wisconsin.
The Ohio river is frozen over from Louis
vile to its headwaters.
Snow fell yesterday over the Virginia Pc
ninsula to depth of from II to IA inches,
and the temperature was l0 degrees.
In all the Eastern Shore counties of Mary.
land YESTERDAY Temperatures below zero were
recorded.
A band of gypsies, camped IN the Welsh
Mountains, in Lancaster county, Pa, on Sat
urday night, suffered terribly from cold, the
temperature reaching Is degrees below zero
Two of them had their feet so badly frozen
they had to be amputated.
Mrs. David McCracken, of Greensburg,
Pa, walked two miles on Friday, carrying
her two months old baby in her arms. The
child was wrapped up, but when the mother
reached her destination she found the little
one frozen to death.
At York, Pa, on Saturday, a temperature
of seven degrees below zero was recorded.
TUESDAYS REPORT.
Rufus Payne, of Cincinnati, was found
frozen to death in n little repair shed in the
rear of his home. II is supposed he fell
asleep by the stove and the cold benumbed
his faculties.
The temperature at Middleboro, Connect
cut, was % degrees below zero-colder by
Eve degrees than ever before known at that
point
The inner harbor at Newport, Rhode Island,
is completely closed by the ice.
Temperatures Of 10 degrees below zero at
Staunton, Virginia, and OF 10 above at Cam
den, South Carolina, were recorded. At
Point Rock, on the line between North Caro-
lima and Tennessee, the mercury dropped to
II below zero.
At Petersburg Virginia, the thermometer
registered 10 below zero-the coolest weather
ever known there.
The cold in Wisconsin was intense, tenn
peratures of from IA to As degrees below be-
ing reported.
The Tennessee river is frozen over from
Knoxville to Chattanooga.
A Knoxville despatch says that mot for
80 years has there been such severe weather
as now prevails in that section. The Their
mometer is far below zero and dozen or
more of people are reported frozen to death.
Business of all kinds has been suspended, and
the united efforts of city officials and church
members are being utilized to aid the poor.
Chicago is threatened with a coal famine as
a result Of the Unprecedented demand and the
inability of the railroads to carry sufficient
supply owing to the condition of the roads.
Lindsay & McCutcheon's iron works at
Allegheny, Pa, employing 600 men, was
compelled to close down on account of the
short supply of coal.
Decatur, Illinois, and vicinity is suffering
from coal famine. At Cashmere the resi-
dents are burning cobs for fuel.
A cube of ice six feet thick was cut from
Vadnas lake, at st. Paul, Mimi, and is the
heaviest ice seen since the famous block
which formed the corner stone of the Ice
Palace in 1886.
WEDNESDAYS REPORT.
Binghamton, New York, broke its record
for cold weather yesterday, thermometers
registering 80 degrees below.
Temperatures of from IA to y below zero
were reported yesterday from various points in
Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachu-
sets, and of 20 below at Augusta and Port
land, Maine.
Snow began falling at Mobile, Alabama,
last evening. and in two and half honrs it
lay half an inch deep.
THURSDAYS REPORTS.
The large steamer Guiding Star is aground
in the Mississippi, near New Madrid, Missouri,
and will prove total loss The ice knocked
a large hole in her hull. The loss may reach
$130,000.
A number of coal barges steamers and
tugs, valued at 81, 600 900, are fast in anaice
gorge in the river near Jacksonville, Indiana,
and their utter destruction is thought to be
probable.
A despatch from Portsmouth, Virginia,
says that very heavy drift ice, extending from
outside the Capes, makes it almost impossible
for vessels to get into Hampton Roads. A
dozen vessels are icebound in Chesapeake
bay, and % channel buoys are cut of position.
Teams with heavy wagons crossed the Mis-
sissippi river on the ice at St. Louis yesterday.
Heavy snow fell yesterday in Georgia.
The Detroit river is frozen solid, from bank
to bank, at the city of Detroit.
Six inches of snow fell throughout middle
Tennessee yesterday.