Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-01-12
A NORTH POLE BREATH.
Tho Entire Country Freezing Under
Zero Temperature.



An Engineer m Sew Jersey Railroad
Frozen Mt His Post of nuty--A Terri
bic Storm Raging in Michigan.
PHiLADELpHIA, Jan. ll.--lohn Hrcarton,
of Salem, an engineer on the West Jersey
railroad, nearly pen shed in his cab yester-
day afternoon while running his train
through tho blizzard from his home to
Camden. The train left Salem shortly
after noon, and had considerable difficulty
in pushing its way through the snow that
drilted on the tracks. The wind was Bit
ter cold aud drove the snow i'll scurrying
clouds from the open fields In cOnsc-
quencc il was almost impossible for lirear-
ton to sec through the frosted pnnes Of MS
cab and to avoid any accident through
collision he hnd to open the windows OF
the locomotive and hrnvely face the keen
and torturing ice blasts. His hardihood
nearly cost him his life.
When Woodbury. was reached the fire.
man Of the train noticed that lireurtun
was numb with the cold. He sprnE to
the aid OF the engineer aud found him nm
conscious Mt tho throttle. The train was
promptly stopped and lircarlOn WAS found
10 be badly frozen. lie was carried from
his post into the depot for treatment.
Upon recovering the engineer was sent to
his home.
WASHINGTON, Jan. lO.-The signal office
reports tonight show thnt at st, Paul and
Duluth the temperature was - below. at
Chicago. s below; Springfield. g bc!nw;
Buffalo, 4 above st. louis 2aboyc; Boston
and Philadelphia, y above pittsburg, .
above; New York, Is above, and washing
ton, 10 above.
TERRIBLE TORN IN MICHIGAN.
DETROIT, MIcn., Jan. lO.-Not since Feb.
ruarv in lSSB has Michigan experienced
such cold weather as prevailed through
ont the state last night and to day The
thermometers ranged from l0s below zero
III the southern portion to 3O' below IN the
northern peninsula. II eased mp sonic
what in this vicinity to-day. the mercury
lowering around zero. bat Mr. Evans, the
weather service chief predicts that 10 night
he cold will equal that OF last night.
ON account pf the heavy sn0w storm
that prevailed for y and ~ hours previous
To thedrUp IN temperature country f"u,iS
have been hluakadcd and trains mhch i'm
pcdri Many trains could not reach their
destinations. and others were cancelled be.
cause of their Inability to get through the
heavy drifts. The intense cold viii. il is
expected let up somewhat tomorrow, and
this will enable the railroads e. Gel their
lines i'll somewhat Ike wurklng order
again.
A BLIZZARD Is THE sClttYLKtLL WILEY,
P0rTsvILLE, Pa. Jan. lU.-Ihc scvcrCst
of winter weather is being experienced
throughout this comfy tn-duy. With the
cessation of the fall Of snow which con
tinucd Turing the lfllt until early m1rn-
ing came a regular blizzard FROM the
nufll west blowing at the rate of ~ miles
an hour. This has continued all day. and
the Thermometer has fallen in the higher
points Of the coal region to - and 70
below zero, At 3 o'clock il registered -
above at this place.
fnE MERCURY STEADILY pEsoENps.
READING, Pa, Jan lO--'rhc mercury
has been dropping steadily all day At 7.3O
this y. IN. il touched within two points Of
zero and still going down. This is the
coolest weather we have had thus far
The public roads in the rural districts are
badly drfted aud are in some places almost
impossible. The railroads, with the ex
ceptiOn Of the East Pennsylvania branch
Of the Reading and tine Wilmington &
Northern, have not experienced the least
trouble The trains on East PENNSYLVANIA
and Wilmington h Northern were 30 min
utcs to two hours late, caused BY snow
drifts.