The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-16
SOUTHERN STATES
ARE SNOWBOUND.
SLEIGHING BEING ENJOYED BY
THE PEOPLE OF ATLANTA,
GEORGIA.
A NUMBER FROZEN TO DEATH
Two CARLOADS OF CALIFORNIA
ORANGES WERE RUINED IN
COLORADO.
A NUMBER FROZEN TO DEATH

ATLANTA Ga, Feb. 15.-The worst snow
storm in the memory of the present gen.
Grafton is now prevailing throughout
Georgia. In Atlanta it has fallen heavily
since early morning and the ground is now
covered with five inches of snow on four
inches of the frozen remains of Sunday
nights storm. The trolley-car system is
paralyzed and practically no business is
being transacted. The streets are given
over to improvised sleighs and merry
snowballing parties, enjoying the unac-
customed sport. Rose Coghlan's matinee
at the Grand Opera-house had to be post
poned.
At Darien, on the coast, the ground is
covered with snow four inches deep. This
is the first time in the history of this ancient
town that such a thing has happened
Twenty years ago there was fall of snow,
but it was gone in two hours. There has
never been such severe spell of weather
as has been experienced for the last few
weeks. All the orange trees and early
vegeta bles are killed.
Thomasville, the famous winter resort,
had three-inch fall of snow last night and
sleighbells are ringing in the streets for
the first time in the history of the city.
At Quitman the first snow that has fallen
since 1870 fell last night. 1t began at 7
o'clock and continued for two hours about
81 inches falling. The situation is a novel
one to Quitman, and business is suspended.
while everybody is enjoying snowballing.
At Buchanan the snow and sleet has
stopped all sawmills, coaling and other
public works in the county. Farmers are
behind with their work and everything is
at a standstill.
In Taliaferro County the heaviest snow
ever known in that section fell last night, to
depth of three inches, and turned into a
fine sleet this morning. Cattle on the range
are dying from the effects of the protracted
cold weather.
At Augusta two children, one white,
aged months, and one colored, aged 8
months, died last night from exposure.
PARsoN, Va, Feb. 15.-Two school chill
dren-brother and slster-aged 10 and II
YEAR,, were frozen to death in Glover dis
trict, this county, locked in one anothers
arms. The boy wrapped his sister in his
coat.
DENVER, Feb. 15.-At Florence, Colo,
the mercury dropped % degrees below
zero last night, which resulted in total
loss of two carloads of California oranges.
They were left unprotected from the ex-
cessive cold, the freight sheds at Florence,
on the Florence and Cripple Creek Rail
road. being occupied by other fruitcars.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, Feb. 15.-Jose
Carabajai and his son Juan have been
found frozen to death on the mesa east OF
! this city. They left here Wednesday night
with some supplies during the binding
storm and went into camp, where their
bodies were frozen stiff.
| DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 15.-Reports from
| Wednesdays snowstorm from all over the
State sum it up as without parallel in the
history of Texas. Two inches, the small
est, and fourteen inches, the greatest
depth, fell in every county reported. From
Texarkana to the south of the Rio Grande
and from New Mexico to Sabine Pass the
whole surface of the State was robed in
white These lines are, generally speak
ing, 1000 miles in length A most singular