Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1895-02-13
The Great storm.

Not since the memorable "Dllzzard
of 1888, has there been such storm and
snowfall, and extreme cold weather, as
prevailed on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday of lastweek Even on the Jersey
coast where the winter weather is pro-
verbal for it's mildness-snow fell to the
depth of five or six inches, and the mer-
curry went three or four degrees below
zero. The ponds rivers and bays We're
all frozen over, and the roads were con
siderably drifted in some places. The
railroad cuts were filed full OF hard,
compact snow, and most of the trains
were many hours behind time. The
storm came up the South Atlantic Coast,
and passed nOrthwsrd and eastward as
far as Nova Scotia. The accompanying
cold wave extended nearly all over the
United States and Canada, although the
great northwest escaped the heavy
snowfall that prevail led east OF the. Al
leghenies. Wednesday is said to have
been the coldest day ever known over
SO large a territory A great tidal wave
swept the entire Neiw England coast ard
did great damage III many places. The
Temperature varied according to lOca-
ton running to zeGo and four below all
over the country. In Florida and
Georgia it went aa low as five above,
and in Texas five (below. In Pennsyl-
vania it averaged anywhere from zero
to thirty below, ahd in New England
about the same. lOne weather station
in Canada reported an Arctic tempera-
ture of sixty degrees below zero.
Locally, our tcitizens found it cold
enough and rough enough to satisfy the
,1ox ,f uvr,t
most of them hugged their stoves and
their wives and tried to keep warm: and
the few who were obliged to be out on
business protected themselves as well
as they could with handkerchiefs ,shawls,
overcoats and blankets. ne wind
blew with terrific violence AMI 1e light
snow whistled about in lofty columns,
or swept in binding sheets every where.
The resident ''Downeasters,,' including
the editor, were forcibly reminded OF old
times, where amid the hills of New Eng
land, they have encountered many such
storms, in an atmosphere twenty below
zero when there was a fall of snow two
feet deep. There was Inconvenience,
danger, and delay all about us; but no
lives are reported lost in our immediate
vicinity. and all hands welcomed the
return Of sunshine and warmer weather.
storm Notes.
PENNSYLVANIA is badly snowbound.
The Captains all incoming ocean steam
ers report the worst weather they ever
saw.
The Cunard steamer Umbria saved the
crew of French bark on her way across
the Atlantic.
Trains have been buried in snow for
several days in Maryland and manyli lives
lost.
Six men, including the Captain, of the
schooner L. V. Place which was wrecked
at Patchouge, Long Island, froze to
death in the rigging. Two Others, clung
to the rigging for thirty-nine hours,
without food or drink, and were rescued
alive.
There was meat famine at Pauls-
boro.
Some of the glass factories in N. j.
had to suspend work On account ofbeing
short of coal.
No trains from Philadelphia to Mill
vile for two days.
All the roads leading to Salem were
blockaded by snow.
Trains were side-tracked and aban-
doned in various parts of the state.
A minstrel troupe was delayed a day
or two on stalled train near Vineland.
The snowfall was very heavy in lower
Delaware,
Forty inches of snowfall in northern
New York.
A tidal wave did $4,000 damage at
Gloucester, Mass.
Three and half inches Of snow "away
down South" in Georgia.
The Florida Steamer City OF st. Angus
tine, was eight days overdue at ~. l.
Tuesday and it is feared she is lost;
Mrs. Davis school teacher Of Lyons,
pa was found frozen TO death in asnow-
bank. =.
No mails were received at bndgeton
from Thursday until Monaay
The Missouri River was frozen over at
Kansas CITY.