San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-06
NORTHERN BLIZZARD.
MERCURY RUNS AWAY DOWN BE-
LOW ZERO.
Trains Blockaded, Coast and Harbor
Shipping Stopped and Ocean
Travel Impeded.

mometer today registered q to %
degrees below zero in this vicinity.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 6.-The
thermometer registered 3 degrees
below zero this morning. 1t Is the
coolest for fifteen years.
CHICAGO, February 6.-The snow
storm prevailing today threatens
to result in widespread blockade.
Weather bureau officials give no.
tice of heavy snow, accompanied
by severe cold wave tomorrow,
with a high northwest gale in Kan
sas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, ILL
nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michi-
gan and Indiana.
Boston, Feb. 6.-Seven degrees
below zero breaks the seasons re-
cord. A northeast gale has added
to the discomfort. Suburban car
lines are badly blocked by drifting
snow, and incoming trains from
the north and east are hours late.
In the harbor shipping is prac-
tically at a stand still.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 6.-Since Fri
day there has been succession Of
gales, compelling coasting steam
ers to seek shelter. Eastward
bound steamships from America
have been meeting with head
winds. The Cephalonia, from Bos-
ton, is thirty hours over due, while
the Star liner Majestic, from New
York, is thirty-one hours over due.
CLEARFIELD, Pa, Feb. cat s
o'clock the thermometer here and
in other towns in this vicinity
registered 20 to % degrees below
zero.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-The French
liner La Gascoigne, three days over
due from Havre, has not yet been
sighted.
Last night was one OF the coolest
ever experienced here. The Their
mometer registered 5 degrees be-
low.
TROY, n. ", Feb. 26.-The mer-
curry here is Is degrees below zero.
AUBURN, N. Y, Feb. 6.-The
coolest weather of the season, Their.
mometer II degrees below zero.
Wires are down in the city and
business is practically suspended.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 6.-Intense
cold weather prevails here; for the
first time in many years both riv-
ers are frozen over. The Allegheny
is frozen solid from Oil City to
Logan's ferry, ninety miles. Heavy
gorges are reported at several
points and grave fears are enter
tanned of damage when the weather
moderates.
LONDON, Feb. 6.-Bitterly cold
weather, accompanied by snow,
prevails generally throughout
Great Britain. For the first time
in fourteen years the docks at
Southampton are frozen over. At
Market harbor the thermometer
registered four degrees below zero.
Several persons have been found
frozen to death in the country.
Railroad trains in Scotland and
Wales were blocked by snow drifts.
Weather on the continent is also
very severe. In Paris there were
five deaths yesterday from cold.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. g.
During the past twenty-four hours
the barometrical' pressure has risen
one inch and 22-l00 at Havre, 1.3S
at Medicine Hut, and 1872 at Swift
Current, and has fallen more than
half an inch at Kansas City, Des
Moines, Keokuk, Springfield, Han
nibal and st. Louis. These condi-
tions produced a very steep gradi-
ent OF barometer, and the wind We
locity is 60 miles an hour at Val
entine, Neb; As at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
and 46 at North Platte, Neb.
Emergency warnings indicating
violent gales with snow, have been
sent to states in the upper, middle
and lower Mississippi valleys and
upper lake regions. Indications
are for the severest cold wave Of
the season in Colorado, Northern
Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory,
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Mime
sofa and South Dakota tonight and
in Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana,
and the upper lake region Thurs
day afternoon and night.
NoRTHFIELD, VT, Feb. 6.-Roads
are impossible, with high drifts.
The Thermometer is 10 degrees be-
low.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Feb. 6.-The
mercury is thirteen and three
tenths degrees below; with one