Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-12-31
FEARFUL HAVOC.
The Cold Weather Brings Loss OF
SO,OOO,OOO to Florida Fruit
Growers.

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 3l.--A dispatch to
the Inter Ocean from Jacksonville, Fla,
says: The cold Of Friday night has un-
doubtedly caused loss of fully $6,000,-
600 to the fruit and vegetable growers of
Florida. There we're at least 100000
boxes of oranges or the trees that night,
about 100000 boxeshaving already been
marketed. Estimates by officials Of the
Florida Fruit Exchange and the Orange
and Vegetable Growers union place a
total loss on 100000 and partial loss
of 100000. This leaves 100000 uninjured,
which ought now to bring from S5 to W
per box. Young orange groves from one
to four years old are undoubtedly ruined
all over the state, and many old trees
scattered throughout bearing groves are
probably killed.
The winter crop Of tomatoes, egg plants,
cabbages, lettuce, turnips, etc, are killed
outright, and the strawberry vines and
pineapple plants must be very seriously
damaged.
The lowest fall of the mercury was in
this city-14 degrees above zero. Sur
face thermometers registered from to 5
in all exposed places, and there is hardly
house in Jacksonville IN which the
water pipes were not frozen solid. ALI
the shrubbery and tropical plants in the
parks, hotel grounds and private gardens
are frozen and many of them are blight
ed. The temperature was the lowest
since 1885, and one degree lower than the
great freeze Of 1886.
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Gardsden county, and at no point in the
state except Key West did the mercury
stay above 26. There temperature Of
A is reported. Tampa, Titusville, Ocala,
Palatka, Sanford, Gainesville, st. Aug
ustino report minimum temperatures
averaging about 1S above zero. In many
of the ponds and lakes in south Florida
the ice is one-half inch thick, and at
Tam pa the bay is skinned over for fully
800 yards from the shore.
GREAT CHILL.
Jacksonville, Fla, Dec. 31.-The mer-
curry went down to IA deg. above zero at
the signal station in this city just before
SUNRISE this morning. This record is one
colder than tie temperature during the
great freeze of 1886 and the lowest since
1885. The therm ometer at the station 10
100 feet above the ground, and the read
ings about town average from 10 to 3
degrees lower.
The orange and vegetable crops are
practically ruined.
ENGLISH WEATHER.
London.-The weather is cold through
out Great Britain. Several trains are
snowbound. In Scotland the snewsterm
was accompanied by lightning. terri
BILE gale is now raging over South Dur
ham and another storm is sweeping the
coast Of Essex, doing much damage in
the east and north of that country. The
sea is very high and much damage has
been done to shipping. The gale in the
channel continues and life boats at vari-
ous points along the coast have accom-
plished many heroic rescues.
The Ramsgate, Kent, life boat crew put
tN sea at midnight and did not return till
some time before noon, bringing ashore
the crew Of the schooner Union, wreck ed
on Goodwin sands.
At Hollyhead, the bodies of ten of the
crew of the British bark Osse, from Tai
tai, Chill, for Anderson, Scotland, has
been washed ashore. The Osse was
wrecked on Hollyhead breakwater yester-
day morning and all her crew, twenty
four men, perished.