Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-26
EXTENT OF THE STORM.


EXTENT OF THE STORM,
Il showed and Was Cold From New
York to Texas.
The cold and the snow took possession of
New York city yesterday. and last night q
severe noreaster ragged The casualties 50
lar reported are Mrs. Maggie Keen, found
frozen to death in a cellar. and John Hahn.
homeless wanderer. found dead In .
stable.
AS the storm promised to be a severe che
messages were sent to sea captains s.dyis-
ing them not to leave port until they re-
ceived the latest news. Sailors noticed taat
hundreds OF gulls and other birds Jew in
! from the sea, and this, they said. is a sure
sign OF severe storm. Storm signals are
| living all along the coast.
/ The French line steamship La Bourroyns
| lay at her pier in the North river last
/ hlght white and cleaning. Hull and rig
sIhg were sheathed in Icy armor, and her
J anchor chains coated in the same manner
hung from her sides like immense stalac-
tltes. Masts and spars were snow white
La Bourgogne had come into port incased
| IN shell of ice after q severe passage
she arrived in port at 3 pm yesterday
eight days from Harve, carrying about 800
passengers. The last five days Of the yoy-
age the mercury was down 10 zero
Intensely cold weather has prevailed In
the Hudson Valley. On Saturday the tenn
perature was Il degrees below zero az
Cattskin at daylight and II scarcely got
tains it was % below. Yesterday morning
IT was IA below in the village and &c below
in the mountains.
There is much suffering among the poor.
| III Is feared that the cherry and peach
| crops have been ruined The Zee harvest
| which had come to a stop because Of a
shortage OF ice, will recommence today
Nearly ten inches Of second crop ice have
1nd nd IN cFn<r7 ff<
| of all the houses being filled IL there is a
| week or ten days of favorable weather
| The temperature at Gloversville, ~. Y.
for twenty-four hours averaged eleven de.
| grees below zero. the coolest In fifteen
years. Twenty-four degrees below zero Was
! reached, and the mercury reached q lower
point than that In several other places In
Fulton county.
In New jersey.
1t is intensely cold in the northern Dor.
ton OF New Jersey. The thermometer
registered yesterday morning 10 degress
below zero. It showed hard last night
An old-fashioned snow storm visited AT.
lantic City last night. The snow has fallen
10 depth to permit sleighing, and the lin
gle of the bells is heard all over the city.
Ii is the first heavy snow storm seen on
the coast this winter.
/ What promises to be the severest srow
storm along the southern Jersey coast for
| the winter burst upon Cape May at
o'clock Yesterday afternoon. with the
| wind blowing from the northeast AMI In
+, creasing in velocity. The Thermometer was
10 at o'clock yesterday morning. but rose
| to 2s late last night
Pennsylvania.
The lowest temperature Of the winter was
reached at Honesdale, Pa, Saturday night,
when the thermometer registered % degrees
below zero. Icemen are looking forward 20
an abundant crop.
/ 1t has been intensely cold and snow 10
| falling thickly.
Yesterday morning at Bethlehem thu
| thermometer registered degrees below
zero. The Lehigh river at different points
| is completely frozen over Skaters were
out In full force on the Lehigh canal and
river yesterday afternoon. Motormen on
the electric cars, although protected by
face shields. suffered severely from the BIT
| ter cold.
| A blizzard struck Harrisburg about o
| o'clock yesterday afternoon. Snow fen
deeply, stopping the running OF cars ex-
cept at long intervals, and at q late hour
it was still coming down.
| Yesterday morning the thermometer was
degrees below zero at Hamburg. Snow
has been falling since early yesterday af-
| ternoon-
In the south.
Without a moments cessation. but witt
the steadiness herceness and persisten- y
| of a Montana blizzard. a snow storm has
| been raging at Chattanooga, Tenn, end
section since Saturday afternoon It is the
worst known for a decade. and In some re-
spects is without a precedent Fully eigh-
teen inches have fallen. Freight trains are
blocked in the yards and passenger trains
are struggling out with q beautiful disre-
gard OF time schedules. Last night It turn
ed bitter cold.
The heaviest fall of snow OF the winter
was experienced at Nashville Saturday
| night and yesterday. Beginning about mid
night it showed steadily until last night
The snow is about ten inches deep. The
| streets were alive with sleighs yesterday.
Railroad trains are behind time.
Reports from all over south and central
| Texas say that snow for the first time In
three years covered the ground Saturday.
A heavy snow storm, the first OF the oea-
son. has prevailed at Grenada. Miss. Great
suffering will result to the poorer classes
| and to live stock.
sleet all over Augusta and vicinity. In
some places sheds and roofs have been
crushed in by the weight upon them. and
goods Of merchants damaged. Northern
The drouth and cold weather are causing
| the death Of cattle by the thousands In the
| Lower Rio Grande counties Of Texas. Dur
ing the last few weeks there have been ship
| ped from Alice station, on the San Antonio
| and Arkansas Pass railway, 1900 hides OF
cattle which died from starvation and ex-
| posure Several thousand hides have also
been shipped from other points In that Sec
| ton.
The worst blizzard in a decade blew over
| Alabama for two days. rain, hail and snow
falling in succession. The early fruit crop
! Is believed TO be cut short 80 per cent, as
| many fruit trees were in fun bloom. There
| is much suffering among the poor.
Reports from sections OF Texas and Ar
| kansas indicate that a snow storm has pre-
vailed there for the past twenty-four hours
or more. At Temple, Sherman, Denison
| and Fort Worth, Tex, the snow fall Is the
| heaviest known in over decade.
Several inches Of snow have fallen in
| Arkansas and in some of the adjoining
4 states and in the Indian territory the cold
| is intense. Trains in Texas have been &C.
| layed in consequence OF the storm, and
| some apprehension is felt by the cattlemen,
| who fear the storm may result disastrous
| " to their herds.
| In the Seminole Indian reservation the
| bodies of Joseph Add, a negro, and two
| half-breed Indians have been found in the
| woods frozen stiff. They were hunting and
| being caught in the blizzard Of several
| weeks ago persisted.