River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-02-14
HE BLIZZARD.
Cold Wave Strikes the Country-Wsvss
Are High on the Atlantic.

Are High on the Atlantic.
On the 9TH this country was in the
grip of one of the worst blizzards in
the records of the weather bureau. A
storm of snow and wind. accompanied
by the celebrated Dakotan icy temper
allure, ragged with awful ferocity. And
IL was not alone the west which suf-
fered. New York was right in the
midst of a bowling blizzard. The
storm that enveloped New York
started in Florida and swept up the
Atlantic, catching into its embrace all
the cities of the coast. The thermom.
eter at Washington, ID. c., stood at 5
degrees above.
The people in the south also got
something TO which they were unac-
customed. Down in Arkansas it was
almost cold enough to freeze up the hot
springs, being 4 degrees above zero
there, and the mercury making the
same stand in Tennessee.
In New Orleans, Mobile, and all along
the gulf coast there was fall of 40 de-
grees in "a hours The thermometer
fell to 20 degrees above there. This
means that the roses which now are at
their perfection of bloom and are the
pride and glory of the cities of the
south have had their beauty blighted
by the touch of the northern frost.
LONDON, Feb s.-The storms which
have been impending throughout Eng
land are becoming more severe. The
highlands of Scotland are completely
isolated and all the railroads are
blocked with snow.
An unknown vessel has foundered off
Port Patrick, Scotland, with the loss of
seven lives, and a wo.masted steam
ship with black band around two
white smokestacks is ashore on the
Isle of Man.
HALIFAX. n. s., Feb. 12.-The latest
infor Iation from Cape Breton indi-
Gates that the recent storm has been
tine most destructive experienced there
in thirty years. Great damage was
done at South Igonish and for
30 miles along the gulf shore.
About nineteen houses and three
stores were Va shed away. So great
was the force of the sea that large
rocks were carried through the frail
houses. The houses were soon under
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sea with thzr contents. Everything
was lost, but the inhabitants escaped,
and no lives are as yet known to
be lost. Sixteen miles up the
coast is New Haven. another
cove of some thirty families. Here
the houses are built back on the shore.
but the fish houses and the stores are
on the beach. These buildings, with
their contents, valued at $4,000. went,
as did those of South Ingonish, being
swept out to sea with all they con-
tanned. At Middle Head and other
places along the coast fish houses, huts
and fishing gear were destroyed
FIRE ISLAND, n. Y, Feb. 10. A
schooner ashore at Point of Woods life
saving station proved TO be the Louis
V. Place, Capt. Squires, from Baltimore
for New York, coal laden. Capt. Baker,
of the Lonehill station, and the Point of
Woods crew, succeeded in reaching the
vessels at II o'clock Saturday night and
rescued two of the crew. which had
consisted of eight men. They were all
in badly frozen condition, and had
been in the rigging two days and a
night. The other six men had either
been washed overheard and drowned
or frozen to death in the rigging.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. Il. The
freezing weather continues. The best
informed orange-grower in Florida,
James 4. Harris, of Citra, says 95 per
cent. of the crop will not reach 100 900
boxes, against 5000 600 boxes this year.
The early vegetable crop, the entire
straw berry crop, and four-ffths of the
pineapple plants are destroyed. The
aggregate loss is conservatively esti-
mated at S10.0OO,0 600.
OMAHA. Neb., Feb. IA conserva-
tive estimate of the damage to winter
wheat and rye in Nebraska caused by
the high wind of Wednesday places
the loss at Is per cent. Some of the
grain was blown entirely out of the
ground and in other places buried "a
foot deep with dirt and sand.
BALTIMORE, Md. Feb. 12.-Ten or
twelve oyster sloops have been wrecked
and from twenty to thirty lives lost in
the Chesapeake during the blizzard.
The Kent Island shore is strewn with
wreckage. The frozen body of an I'M
known oysterman floated ashore on a
cake OF ice near colchester.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 12.~For the first
time in thirty years the Delaware river
between this city and Camden was
frozen solid Sunday from shore to
shore and people crossed ON the ice.
Many casualties occurred Saturday
from the intense cold in various north
ern states and Canada, and one was re-
ported from as far south as Richmond,
Ky.