The herald., 1895-02-06
ICE COATED OCEAN LINERS
Sailors on the Atlantic Suffer
Severely.
A Sch00ner's Crew Frozen Into
4 Insensibility.
East-Fifty Below Zero in
Wisconsin,.

INV YORK. Feb. Slowing to the cold
weather that has prevailed along the
coast for the past 20 hours all the steam
ships arriving at this port presented an
imposing and beautiful sight. with their
hulls, decks and rigging coated with ice
rom six to ten inches in thickness. The
steamship Justin. which reached Quar-.
antine about noon. looked like a moder-
ate sized floating iceberg. Her decks,
rails and rigging were q solid mass Office.
Her sailors experienced considerable
difficulty in getting around the decks
and suffered from the severe cold.
Incoming steamers report nothing
seen OF the French liner La Gasoogne,
now two days overdue from Havre.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Feb. 5. -Incoming
vessels report that the weather is un-
usually severe. and all their crews are
moro or less frostbitten. @. L. Hibee,
the agent OF the Philadelphia schooner
Richard Leeming. from Boston, which
was towed into the Delaware braekwa-
ter today. received from Captain Lloyd,
her master. : telegram which states
that only two men out OF his entire
crew are fit for duty, all the rest being
frozen into condition of insensibility.
GRANTsBURG. Wis, Feb. 5.--Ths cold
weather climax was reached here this
morning, whom IL was 30 degrsss be-
low zero.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-Today has been
the coolest OF the winter. the Their
mometer registering 4 degrees below
zero early this morning. Three degrees
is the lowest here in IL years.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. Feb. 6.-The ther-
mometer registered zero this morning.
The river is completely frozen.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5.-This has been
the coolest day in the year. Zaro will
be reached tonight.
LYONS, N. Y, Feb. ga terrible
blizzard 10 vsging in Wayne county, the
mercury standing degrees below zero.
A high wind is blowing and the snow 10
falling fast. Reports from the towns
along Lake Ontario indicate that the
storm IL worse there than here. Trains
ON all roads in this section are badly
delayed.
NEW York, Fob. 5.-New York and
vicinity were this evening visited by the
coolest weather experienced in 10 years.
1t grew gradually colder throughout the
night and at O'Clock this wednesday,
morning, it had dropped one degree be.
low zero. At Albany and near vicinity
the thermometer registered from 8
to Is degrees below and q high wind
prevails. At Buffalo it has been FIVE de-
grees below for two days. At Spring.
field, Mass, the wind has been blowing
a gale all day, and at midnight the nisr.
curry registered six degrees below. Two
OF the street car lines there are buried
under several feet OF snow. A cold wave
struck Boston late this afternoon, and
the mercury fell rapidly. At midnight
the thermometer registered five degrees
below.
At Worcester q bitter cold wind
which had been blowing all day has
drifted the snow on all ths lines OF the
suburban electric street railways and
stopped cars from running to Leicester,
Millbury and Greendale. since early this
morning. The thermometer at mid.
night stands below.
The coolest wave of the season struck
Lewiston, Me-. Monday, when the Their
mometer registered from to below.
A northwest gale has served to make
the cold more penetrating.
CUMBERLAND, Wis. Feb. 5.-Spirit
Thermometers registered A degrees be-
low zero this morning, the coldest point
reached in 10 years. A furious snow
storm has set in tonight from the south
east.