The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-04

twenty-four hours preceding O'Clock last
evening showed: Maximum temperature.
40; minimum, 81; mean, 355; snowfall, 5
inches. which melted, together with the
ram that fell, equaled a rainfall of s. of an
inch: wind, north; cloudy weather.
r. NJ. Hoskinson, government observer
al Port Blakeley, reports the temperature
having reached zero there on the morning
OF the 81. This was the lowest tenpera-
lure ever recorded there in the fourteen
years ne has been keeping a record. His
report Tor the month OF January shows
total snowfall of twenty inches, while the
iaIl here was only fifteen inches.
uuy &. Phinney says the snow is just
three feet and four inches deep in Wood
land park. His thermometer registered
deg. below zero on the morning OF the
80. The ice Is six inches thick on Green
lake and the ice house his neighbors were
laughing at Mr.. Phinney for building last
summer is now full of excellent ice. He
got twenty tons packed away in it at
cost OF SIS. This, he says, would
have cost him 500 if he had to
buy it and it will supply his hotel and
residence for two years. His neighbors.
now that he has the laugh on them, say
that If he were to fall into the lake they
believe he would come up with his pockets
full of fish.
{. A. Hammond. who has a ranch on
Port Orchard, is reported as having had a
very hard experience last Tuesday night.
he came in that day on the steamer
Grace, leaving his little boat tied to the
float which is moored off the shore some
distance. On his return in the evening he
found the boat had considerable water in
1t and he tried to pull it up OH the float to
empty it. In doing SO he lost his oars and
then when he got the boat up ne found it
so badly damaged that it was unsafe TO go
ashore in. There was large boat on
shore, but his wife could not launch it.
The wind was blowing fearful gale and
the only way he could stick to the float
was by hanging onto stake which hap
pened TO be sticking in il. The waves
breaking over the float wet him all over
and the water freezing on him made him
look like solid chunk Of ice
He was a good swimmer, but he was
afraid to attempt to swim with so much
ice on him. Finally, when he gave up all
hope OF getting off in any other way. he
decided to make the attempt. TWAS after
$50 o'clock, and his wife and little girl
were crying on the beach. He thought
the water was SO cold that with the great
coating of ice on him he would chill right
through and stand very little chance of
making shore. but there was nothing else
to do, so he jumped off. Cold as the water
was he found it so much warmer than the
cold air and frost that it just numbered him
up and he felt that he could swim a mile
But as soon as he jumped the line holding
the float broke and it began drifting to-
ward shore. He scrambled back onto it
and was soon safely landed on the beach.
AT p. IN. yesterday the weather was
still very stormy at North Bend and
Snoquaimie. Snow continued falling
and heavy wind drifted it badly, in many
places the drifts being Is feet deep. Along
the Lake Shore road north of McMurray a
like condition prevailed, although the
temperature was modifying. Trains on
all roads continue to arrive late. The sup
ply of coal over the Columbia & Puget
Sound continues light. A train of fifteen
cars managed to come through from New
castle Thursday night and another was
expected to get through last night. Two
or three steamers are waiting for coal car
goes. Superintendent Bush. Of the Ore
Sou pan
himself yesterday that Immediately after
the last food he removed large log jam
at one of the crossings on the line. Re-
garding the threat OF damage from another
flood he said his lines were prepared for
anything OF that sort, unless it should
prove something extraordinary.
Owing to the bad weather the steamer
Walla Walla did not arrive in from
Comox, Vancouver island, where she
had been loading her cargo of
coal until o'clock last night.
She was to have sailed for
San Francisco at O'Clock in the evening,
but it was this morning before she got
away. When she came in messenger
had to be sent 10 find Deputy Collector of
Customs ID. A. Mckenzie to enter her.
Steamer City of Kingston did not arrive
back from Victoria yesterday. 1t showed
so heavily on the lower Sound that she
did not venture out of Victoria. The
steamer Delta brought in the report from
Hood canal that there is so much ice
formed around the shores OF the canal and
in the bays where the water is still that
the small boats cannot get out 10 receive
the mail pouches.