The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-06
BLIZZARD GOES EAST.
New York and Boston Struck
by the Blast.
THE COOLEST IN TEN YEARS.
In wisseasin the olsss rabs shows SO
Degrees Below Zero add ensw
IL Falling Heavily
THE COOLEST IN TEN YEARS.

New York. Feb. s.--New York and
vicinity were last night visited by the
coolest weather experienced IA ten
years. It grew gradually colder
throughout the night and at O'Clock
this "wednesday, morning st had
dropped TO below.
At Albany and near vicinity the Their
moneter registers from 10 to Is below.
and a high wind prevails.
At Buffalo it has been below Tor TWO
days.
AT Springfield, Mass. the wind has
been blowing agale all day and at mid
night the mercury registered below
Two OF the street car lines there are
buried under several feet OF snow.
A cold wa struck Boston late this
afternoon aid the mercury fell rapidly.
AT midnight the THERMOMETERS regis
tered below.
At Worcester. Mass. . bitter cold
wind, which has been blowing ell day.
has drifted the snow on the lines OF all
the suburban street railways and
stopped cars from running 20 Leicester.
Miiibury and Greendale since early this
morning. The thermometer AZ midnight
stands 6 below.
The coolest wave Of the season reached
Lewiston. Me-. Monday evening. when thu
Thermometer registered from 70 below.
Tonight It Is 10 below. A northwest gale
has served to make tho cold more pene-
trating.
At Montreal stin more intense cold b
being experienced. tho thermognstsr 1t
midnight registering 81 below.
Cumberland. Wis. Feb. 5.-Spsrt< Their
mun,eters registered a below zero this
morning. The coolest point reached In ten
years. A furious snow storm has Get IN
tonight from the southeast.
Argat,ia, WIS.,, Feb. 5.--This section = IN
the rnaast OF furious blizzard tonight.
There Is no sign Of abatement. Snow -
drifting badly.
Lyons. N. Y, Feb. s.--A terrible blizzard
Is raging In Wayne county. the mercury
standing at 5 degrees below zero. A high
wind "a blowing. and the snow is falling
fast. Reports from the towns along Lake
Ontario Indicate that the storm Is worse
there than here. Trains on all roads in
this secson are badly delayed.
wilkesbarre, Pa, Feb. 5.-The weather
IN this section was intensely cold today.
At Glen Summit the mercury registered -
below.
Sioux City. Ia. Feb. 5.--Last night was
the coolest OF ths winter. the mercury
falling to II below zero.
Sioux City. Ia, Feb I'D. c. Harrison.
OF Holt county. Neb.. II here soliciting aid
for the drorfth sufferers. He says there
are eighteen families IN that section on
the verge of starvation. A Mrs. Pearson.
living north OF Emporia. cled the other
day and & Is almost certain that She
starved to death.
Washington City. Feb. 5.-Today has
been the coolest OF the winter. the tlser-
rlgsnetsr registering four degrees be.uw
zero early this morning. Three degrees Is
the lowest here In Il years.
Bethlehem. Pa, Feb. 1.-The thesncra-
river IL completely frozen.
Philadelphia. Feb 5.--This has been the
coolest day % the year. Zero win be
reached tonight
Incoming vessels report that che wealth
e- is unusually severe and all their craws
are more or hess frsost-bsften. c. l.. Hig-
bee. the agent OF the Philadelphia schoon-
er Richard Leernzng, from Boston. winch
was toxed into the Delaware breaicwa-
ter today, received from Capt Lloyd. hsr
master, telegram which states that
Only two men out OF his entire crew are
fit for duty, all Tire rest teing frozen tuto
a corAtson OF fnsenssosiity.
Csr1mssburg. Wis, Feb. 1.-The esoa3
weather climax was reached here vr1ss
s.sornfng when &C was 50 degrees below
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