The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-15
COLD.
Singular Sort of Weather They Are Hav
ing In the East.

singular sort OF Weatner Iney Are nav
ing In the East.
Washington, May 14.-Secretary Nor
ton said to-day he believed great dam
age had been caused to crops by frost,
but regarded some of the reports ex-
aggerated. His opinion was based on
newspaper dispatches. So far no infor-
nation has reached the department
except through the regular telegraphic
reports of the weather bureau.
Galesburg, ILL.,, May 14.-Everything
was frozen stiff last night. Ice a
quarter of an inch thick was formed.
The grape and strawberry crop is
killed. 1t is feared fruit of all kinds
Chicago, May 14.-Heavy frosts oc-
Cured this morning in Wisconsin,
Michigan. Illinois. Indiana and East
ern Minnesota. with seven inches OF
snow in the central and northern part
of lower Michigan. The temperature
is to 10 degrees below freezing this
morning in lower Michigan, the Ohio
valley, Tennessee and Missouri
Peoria, ILL.,. May IA very heavy
frost in this section last night did en-
ormous damage. Grapes and vegeta-
bles are all gone.
DClIOits may 1t.-INcPOIlc lIOIu luc
fruit belt in the western part of the
state are conflicting. but most of them
agree that no serious damage was done
and IL the wind continues until to-mor-
row all danger from frost will be over.
Garden truck has been badly nipped.
Cleveland. Ohio, May 14.-while the
wee ther continues cold there was no
frost in northern Ohio last night, as
the skies were generally cloudy. The
conditions favor a heavy frost to-
night. Reports continue to come In of
general destruction OF fruit and early
vegetables by severe frosts Sunday
night.
Pittsburg. May 14.-The weather is
cold and cloudy with light dashes of
rain. The lowest temperature reached
was 80 degrees, and freezing weather
is predicted by the weather bureau to-
night. Damage to fruit and vegetables
will be great.
Mowaqua, ILL.,, May 14.-Heavy frost
last night totally destroyed the fruit
and berry crop in this section. Gar |
dens are blackened to the ground.
Whitehall. N. Y, May 14.-There was |
a heavy frost throughout the Cham |
plain valley last night, doing consider |
able damage to fruit trees and crops.
Dunkirk, N. Y, May 14.-The damage
by frost to the grape crop OF Chautau-
qua county is estimated at s150,O00 to
500, 900.
Oshkosh. Wis, May 14.-There was
another heavy frost last night and the
destruction of garden fruit and early
grain is almost complete. The ground
Is frozen to a depth of nearly two
inches.
Elizabethtown, N. j., May 14.-The
fell to 20 degrees at 5 a. m.
to-day. Fruits are blasted and foliage
s dropping and the ground is frozen
hard.
Wapakoneta. Ohio, May 14-It has
been showing here all the morning. the
thermometer registering 20 degrees.
rhe damage to fruits and crops can
lot be estimated.
Asheville N. c.. May 14.-Snow can
'e seen plainly for a distance of sew
raj miles on the mountains in this
vicinity. Very little damage has been
lone to vegetation in the valleys.
st. Louis. May 14.-The signal service
'ficer reports a killing frost at Spring.
leld. ILL.,. and vicinity last night and
light frost in this vicinity and
Missouri. extending into
owa. 1t is not thought serious dam
Ige TO crops resulted, except in the low
ands.
Dispatches received by the Missouri
tate board OF agriculture report some
amage to crops by frost on Saturday
nd Sunday nights in the northwest
nd central sections OF the state. Beans |
nd potatoes suffered particularly.