Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-02-08
Unparalleled Storms.

SPIN s-llke weather ON the Pacific
Coast, our neighhors east OF the ROCKY
Mountains are having an experience
that breaks the record of even thai
storm-infested country. 81. Paul re
ports the mercury at 10 degrees be
low zero; with billiards sweeping Owe
the whole State, the Dakotas. and a,
far west us Missoula, Mont. Snow fel
in some places, while the velocity o
the wind ran up to so miles an hour.
The same conditions have prevailed
in Michigan and Wisconsin, SO far q.
the snowfall and high winds are con
cerned. The cold wave is of unparal
leled severity, and much suffering te
humanity and stock is reported.
In Illinois the the temperature ha:
not been SO low, hut the fall of snow
has knocked schedule service entirel,
out. Snow banks II feet high are re
ported in some places.
In Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa bust
ness has been almost entirely suspend
ed the past few days, from the un'
precedented severity of the storm
The wind has blown fully GO miles al
hour, carrying binding clouds of SNOW
and sand. 1t is feared that many
lives have been lost. The tempera
ture was growing steadily lower yes
terday.
The outskirts of the storm reached
st. Louis, Mo-, where snow had beer
lying on the ground the past fiv'
weeks, intensifying the privations tina
have been felt. Much suffering ex
lists in the State, and business ha
been almost entirely suspended il
some places.
A dispatch from Oklahoma declare
the storm there prevailing to be tn
worst for many years. The wind ha
blown a hurricane, while the cold ha.
been intense.
Reports from New York and Penn
sylvania OF yesterday indicate an un
usual experience of severe weather
The thermometer indicates temper
ature many degrees below zero, the
rivers are all frozen over, and a short
age of natural gas in the latter State
has caused much suffering as the sup
ply of coal is limited. Vessels came
in to New York harbor with hulls
decks and rigging coated with ice from
six to ten inches in thickness. A
schooner made Delaware breakwater
from Boston with all the crew but two
frozen into state OF insensibility.
A Rutland, VT, dispatch says tina,
for the first time in Is years. Lake
Champlain is frozen its entire length.
The temperature at Concord, N. H.
Wednesday morning was Is degrees
below zero.
The worst kind of blizzard struck
Texas, Wednesday. The wind blew
a 4O-mile gale and was accompanied
by snow.
A dispatch from Toronto, Canada
dated the 9th inst, says the colo
weather prevailing there has not beer
equaled since 1886. The temperature
at various points has stood at from q
to 40 degrees below zero.
Even across the water come report.
OF unprecedented severe weather the
past week. In Scotland trains have
been imbedded in. snow drifts, and
travel has been uncertain and attended
with much delay and many hardships
Many cattle and thousands of sheer
hav6 persisted. In Westmoreland sew.
eral schools were surrounded with
drifts, and people have had to organize
parties to dig the children out. Many
deaths OF the aged and infant poor are
reported. The gales have wrecked
several fishing boats on the coast. In
Dundee and the districts around thai
city, the weather is the worst that hal
been experienced for 60 years.
The railroads in many parts of Ital,
are blockaded with snow, and thu
orange and olive groves in Catanii
have been destroyed. The village o
Sambucci, in Italy. has been snowet
in for two days, and $50 families have
been cut off from supplies of food ant
fuel. The project of the district ha
sent q party to help them.
The weather is intensely cold il
Western and Central Europe. In vi
emma the thermometer is ct zero, ant
snow is falling heavily. The poor O
the city are suffering severely. Danish
waters are filled with ice, and naviga
ton is very difficult. The lightship
have been taken into the harbors
Throughout Northern Europe thu
cold has been intense. Five DEATH
are reported in Paris from the extrem,
cold.
This is but brief epitome of thu
/ dispatches that have given in detail
the sufferings prevailing over larg.
portion OF our own country and Europe
the past week, from the severity of tn,
weather. Can anything more favor
ably impress our people with the ad
vantages we possess on the Pacific
Coast? Should we repine over minor
troubles while our kindred of othe
climes suffer loss of property and tn,
tortures of death, from ills that W,
know not Of? And this is not tn,
chief OF the blessing we enjoy. Peace
and plenty reign perpetually in thi.
land Of sunshine.
RETROGREssION.-The action Of the
delegates to the conference meeting oil
cities of the third class, in recon-
mending that the election of city Of
dcers be taken from the people and
vested in the councils of each city
seems to be a step backwards, unless
it be conceded that the people are not