The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-14
COLD AS GREENLAND
The East Shvering and Suffering in
Snow and Ice.
FRUIT CROPS DESTROYED
Enormous Damage Done BY the
Z unprecedented Weather Which
Has Struck Our Neighbors
In the Gold Bug Regions.

Pittsburg. May 13.-Eastern Ohio,
western Pennsylvania and western vir-
ginia were visited last night by a
heavy white frost. The mercury
dropped to 80 degrees and in exposed
places ice formed a quarter of an inch
thick. Garden truck and grapes Uere
nipped.
Oshkosh. Wis. May 13.-An inch of
snow fell here to-day and the thermom-
| eter is at freezing. Great damage has
been done to early fruit and gardens.
Minneapolis. May 13.-Last nights
frost was severe in Minnesota and
South Dakota. Snow fell at Ely. Tow
er and Iron Range points. Garden
truck and small fruits suffered badly.
and grain in a lesser degree. Wheat is
reported damaged slightly. oats badly
In some quarters. Cranberries. straw
berries and other small fruits I'm west
ern Wisconsin are frozen solid.
Menominee, Mich, May 13.-A howl
ing blizzard passed over the city last
night and the snow is three or four
inches deep to-day. All gardens and
many fruit and shade trees are ruined.
Detroit. Mich, May 13-western
Michigan dispatches received to-day
indicate that fruit was not injured to
any extent by the frost last night In
the northern peninsula and northern
part OF the state. however, a heavy
snow fell. with a freezing wind from
the northeast, badly damaging vegeta-
bles and tender buds.
Cleveland. Ohio, May 1s.-Telegrams
from numerous points throughout
northern Ohio show the heavy frost
last night was most serious in effect
upon fruit and early vegetables. The
damage Is enormous.
Green Bay. Wis, May 13.-A severe
blizzard prevailed here from midnight
to a. m. to-day. Three inches of snow
fell, accompanied by a wind blowing
40 miles an hour. Great damage results
to fruit market gardens and grow
ing grains.
Cincinnati. May 13.-Dispatches from
northeastern Ohio report heavy dam
age by frost. The mercury fell four de-
grees below freezing.
Milwaukee. May IA fierce norther
is sweeping Lake Michigan to-day. Dis
patches from Sheboygan say the life
saving crew has gone to the rescue of
the scow Quickstep. which is being
driven before the gale and is I'm danger
OF going ashore. Snow is reported all
through northern Wisconsin.
Chicago, May 13.--Chicago shivered
in a temperature OF 40 degrees to-day.
with a heavy gale blowing off the lake
and a promise of cooler weather to-
night.
Dunkirk. N. Y. May 1s.-sunday
nights frost desolated the Chatauqua
grape belt. Vineyards appear as black
as If fire had passed over them. Farm
ers report all small fruits badly dam
aged Cherries and Strawberries are
entirely destroyed.
Washington, May s3.--srhe weather
bureau furnishes the following builc-
tin: The unusually warm weather
which has prevailed the last week
throughout the Mississippi and upper
Mississippi valleys and lower lake re-
gions, Middle Atlantic states and New
has been followed by a wave
of extremely low temperature. exceed
ing In many places the record of past
years first wave. The warm weather
began Wednesday. the sth, i'm the Mis-
sour valley with a maximum tenn
perature ranging from 30 degrees to 100
degrees and moved gradually eastward
the Middle Atlantic states and
New England Friday. The cool wave
set in the northwest Friday night.
Frosts were reported as far south Sat
urday morning as Kansas and Mis- |
souri, valley with a maximum tenn |
BY this morning. producing light frosts |
as far south as Chattanooga and |
Lynchburg. Killing frosts occurred |
Sunday morning in Nebraska, Iowa |
md Michigan. and this morning In /
Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.
of these frosts were sent out
by the weatehr bureau on the day pre-
,ious to their occurrence to all the dis
.ricts affected. Shows occurred along
he lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin.
rhe storm which developed suddenly
within the last twenty-four hours is
low cenrtal I'm the Ohio valley and will |
cause a still further fall OF
as IL moves eastward. pro-
lucing freezing weather in the lower
AXE region and In northern portions of
Sew York and New England.
New York May 13.-Dispatches from
he grape growing sections OF the state
'eport that the vines have been badly
by the frost of Saturday
light. One of the largest growers In
he state estimates that the total dam
Ige TO the crop will be $1,000 900.
Chicago. May 13.-Profesor Moore OF
he United States weather bureau here
ays: The prospect is that the great
st damage will result to the peach
,rowers OF Michigan. The fine weather
4 the last few weeks has brought the
rees along 10 a point where they will
,e most susceptible TO cold. The cold
wave is bound directly for Michigan.
90. and will stir up some northwest
Winds that viii make matters worse"