The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-11
ATERRIBLE BLIZZARD
Freezes the Marrow of the
People Of the East.
SNOW AND LOW TEMPERATURE,
Wretched Inhabitants Of the Wind
Swept Regions Unable Stir Out
Traffic Delayed by Storm.

JoHNsrowN, Pa, JAM 10-A party of
forty ladies started from this place to
Ebensburg today, riding in sleds. The
whole expedition became stalled in drift
ing snow and were detained for some
hours. Several of the party were so badly
frostbitten that serious results are antici-
pated and the most OF them had their ears,
hands or feet badly frozen. Tonight the
Ebensburg branch train is snowbound and
the passengers are suffering seriously with
cold.
new York, Jan. 10.-This has been a
day of shivers and shakes, and a edes-
TRAN could almost hear his bones creak as
he trod the snow covered ground, with the
wind driving the cold into the marrow
Snow and ice almost blocked the work of
the street cleaning department. Starting
today with the temperature at % degrees
at 6 q. m, the mercury descended till
twelve hours later it was 10 degrees above,
and at 10 O'Clock tonight it was 4
degrees, with no indications of a
break. If anything the cold seems
to be even more intense this evening,
when there is no traffic to break the force
OF the wind and when well-heated manu-
factories, which furnished warm spots
during the day, are idle. Snow has COM
menced falling again. Up in the state
they are having even colder weather. In
the Mohawk valley the thermometer regis
tered zero at o'clock this evening and it IS
growing still colder. In Buffalo the mimi
mum temperature this morning was de-
grees below zero. At Corning it was de-
grees below zero tonight.
From Dover, Del. comes the report of a
genuine Western blizzard and of highways
banked with snow so badly that travel was
was almost at q standstiil. This evening
two passenger and two freight trains were
showed in about one mile south Of there.
At Scranton, Va. the mercury registered
2 degrees above zero.
The thermometer at Boston registers 4
degrees above.
At Pottsviile, Pa, a regular blizzard
from the northwest has been blowing all
day at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The
thermometer registers degrees below.
East Franklin colliery, at Trenton, Pa,
owned by the Reading company, has been
obliged to suspend operations because of
the extreme cold weather. Other collIeries,
it is reported, will also suspend work tenn
porarily.
The coolest place heard from is Lindsay,
Ont, with the temperature 25 degrees be-
low zero.
DETROIT, Jan. 10.-Not since 1889 has
Michigan experienced such cold weather
as prevailed throughout the state last
night and today. The thermometer ranged
from 10 deg. below zero IN the southern
portion to 80 below in the Northern penin-
sula. On account of heavy snowstorm
that prevailed previous to the drop in
temperature, the country roads are
blocked and trains much impeded.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 10.-The mercury con-
tnues to drop rapidly during the night,
falling 20 to 80 deg. below in different parts
of the city, with an average of rs deg. In
one place SO deg. below zero was reported.
At O'Clock this morning the thermome-
ter was IA to Is deg. below zero.
FAYErTE. Ia, Jan. 10.-The worst storm
for years has been raging since Sunday
night. Public roads are blocked in every
direction, and all trains are delayed.