The record-union., 1895-02-08
Increasing in Intensity on the
South Atlantic Coast.
THE TEMPERATURE FALLS MANY
DEGREES IN A FEW HOURS
Ehe Blizzard in Kansas RACES With
Unabated Vfgor, the Thermometer
Ranging Many Degrees Below Zero
Storms in Europe Severely Imped-
ing Traffic-Hfghlands in Scotland
Completely Isolated.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

w WASHINGTON, Feb. THE Weather
Bureau furnishes the following special
bulletin: During the past twenty-four
hours the storm in Louisiana has moved
to the South Atlantic Coast. increasing in
Intensity. The area of high pressure has
moved from north of Montana to North
Dakota. Between North Dakota and the
South Atlantic Coast sharp barometric
gradients will cause the severest cold
wave and lowest temperatures ever re-
corded ia the first week of February from
Arkansas, kentucky and Virginia south
ward.E
The temperature in Indian Territory
and northern portions of Texas and
Louisiana has fallen SO to $50 in the past
twenty-four hours and is now 400 below
normal.
Emergency warnings for the north
west gales and freezing weather have
been sent to Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia, South Carolina and
Florida.
TRAINS DELAYED.
OMAHA, Feb. 7.-Drifted snow and
sand and the intense cold greatly inter-
tered with the movement of trains in
Nebraska last night and to-day. The
through train from Billings, Mont, on
the Burlington, due at 1I:45 last night,
has not yet arrived. There have been no
trains since yesterday morning on the
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley
Road from the Black Hills. All trains on
the Union Pacific are delayed, and
many engines have been "killedp by
freezing.
A MISSOURI BLIZZARD.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. THE blizzard
Il ,,,iFI !,
Z O'Clock this morning the thermometer
registered 1O!0 below zero. A gale is
blowing. Signal Officer O'Connor does
not promise any respite until Friday
evening. Railroads have not been incon-
Venienced much from snowdrifls.
HEAVY WINDS AND ZERO TEMPERATURE,
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1.-The approach of the
cold wave predicted in this vicinity was
signallzed during the night by heavy
gales prevail and drop Of 100 or 150 is
expected.
THREE SAILORS FROZEN TO DEATH.
VINEYARD HAVEN (Mass.), Feb. T.
An unknown lime schooner is ashore
with three dead bodies dashed TO the
deckhouse and covered with ice.
COLD SNAP IN TEXAs.
SAN ANTONIO Tex, Feb. THE biz
zard which reached here last night had a
maximum wind velocity OF forty-seven
miles per hour. The thermometer sank
to II above zero.
SHOWING IN TENNESSEE.
KNoxvILLE (Teun.), Feb. 1T has
been showing here continuously Tor
thirty hours. The snow is from twelve
20 fifteen inches deep on the level. All
the street railway lines are tied up and
traffic OF ali kinds is suspended. There
Is much suffering from cold and hunger.
FLORIDA FEELS THE COLD WAVE.
JACKSONVILLE (FIa.), Feb. 7.-Florida
is beginning to feel the cold wave.
Warm, sunny weather prevailed through
out the State up to noon to-day, but
since then cooler weather is reported
from all points in the State. At
10 o'clock tonight the thermometer in
jacksonville registers 90, drop of 400
during the afternoon. At Tallahassee
lcicles foot long formed in Capitol Park.
Ice is forming in Ocala. The Weather
Bureau predicts further drop all over the
State. High north and northwest winds
prevail. Cold weather has been expert
enced all over the South, and great dam
age has been done.
STORMS IN EUROPE.
LONDON, Feb. The storms that are
severely impeding traffic throughout
England are becoming more severe. The
highlands of Scotland are completely iso-
lated.
An unknown vessel foundered off Port
Patrick, Scotland with the loss of seven
lives.
A two-masted steamship with black
band around two white smokestacks is
ashore on the Isle of Man.
The Thames Is frozen over at Chelsea,
and the Scheldt at Antwerp is covered
with ice.
At Antwerp the thermometer registered
10 below zero, centigrade, the lowest in
twenty years.
In Wales thousands of men are out of
work on account of the severe weather.