St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-16
SOUTH SHOWED Under
HOST EXTENSIVE STORM FOR a
GENERATION.
SURPRISE TO SOUTHERNERs
a Foot of Snow in States Where
the Beautiful Is Very Seldom
Seen.

ATLANTA. Feb. 15.-The worst
snow storm in the memory of the
present generation is now prevail
ing throughout Georgia. In Atlanta
it has fallen heavir% since early
morning, and the ground is now COW
cred with five inches of fresh snow
on four inches of the frozen remains
of Sunday nights storm. The troll
lev car system is paralyzed, and
practically no business is being
transacted The streets are given
over to improvised sleighs and merry
snow -baIIing parties, enjoying the
unaccustOmed sport. Rose Cogh-
Ian's matinee at the Grand opera
house had to be postponed, and the
night audience was frozen down to
slim proportions. At Darien, on the
coast, the people awOke this morning
to find the ground covered with snow
four inches deep. This is the first
time in the history of this ancient
town that such a thing has hap
pened. Twenty years ago there was
a fall of snow, but it was gone in
two hours. There has never been
such a severe spell of weather as
has been experienced for the last
few weeks. All the orange trees and
early Vegetab bleS are killed. At
Thomasville, the famous winter re-
sort, there was a three-inch fall of
snow last night, and sleigh bells
are ringing in the streets for the first
time in the history of the city
At Quitman the first snow which
has fallen since 1859 fell last night.
1t began at and continued for two
hours, making about three and a half
inches.
The sight is a novel one to Quit
man, and business is suspended,
while every one is enjoying snow
balling. At Buchanan the snow and
sleet has stopped all saw mills, coal
ing and other public works of the
county. Farmers are behind with
their work and everything is at
standstill The protracted cold
weather is very severe on live stock.
AT Augusta a white child, aged six
months, and one coIored, aged nine
months, died last night from ex-
pOsure.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Feb. 15.-About
six inches of snow was on the ground
this morning, when another snow
storm came up. It has been raining,
| sleeting or showing ever since. The
! prospects are that the ground will
be covered to a depth of more than q
foot by morning.
JASPER, Fla. Feb. 1.-two inches
of snow covered the ground this
morning, and has not yet melted.
DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 15.-Reports
from Wednesdays snow storm from
all over the state sums up without
parallel in the history of Texas.
| Two inches, the smallest, and four
teen inches, the greatest depth, fell
| in every county reported from Tex
arkana to the mouth of the Rio
Grande, and from New Mexico to
Sabin Pass, the whole surface of the
state was robed in white.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Feb. 15.-Re-
ports from all sections of the South
indicate that the snow storm has
been more extensive than ever before
known
At Birmingham two feet have fall
en-; from two to fourteen inches
throughout Texas; six inches at Can
ton; three at Jackson, and three at
Vicksburg, and other points in Mis-
sissippi are about the same depth.
AT WinOna, Miss, man named.
Thompson was frozen to death with
in half mile of a house where he
| had stopped to warm.