The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-10
vegetable Crop Probably All De-
.troyed and Great Damage Done to
Orange Trees and Pincnpples.
EAST Is STILL sNOW-BOUND
MANY TRAINS ABANDONED AND
SOME RAILWAYS TIED UP.
Deep Drifts I'm New Jersey, Maryland,
New York and Interior Pennsyl-
vania-Yesterday's Temperature.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. 9.-Ihe full
extent of the damage done by the cold
wave throughout Florida will be hard to
estimate for some days, because returns
will be slow coming in from all points, be-
sides much will depend on the weather that
follows during the next week, burt a con-
sentative estimate places the loss to orange
growers and others at 81, 900, 900. After the
freeze of December the weather moderated
very gradually, and ii was fully ten days
before the normal temperature was re-
stored. This fact probably saved a large
amount of damage to the oranges which
would have been done by a sudden warming
of the air and exposure to the hot sun.
Advices from different sections of the State
in regard to the effects of this freeze in
dictate that the damage done Is equal to,
If not greater, than that of the December
freeze. The area of low temperature has
extended as far south as before, and vegeta-
ton was not in as strong condition to stand
the cold as before. To recoup the losses Of
the orange crop then many orange grow
ers planted vegetables. These had started
in a vigorous growth and were developed
TO the point where they could be most
damaged by severe cold. Then came the
second freeze. 1t appears now that the
vegetable crop of Florida is an entire loss.
Older orange trees throughout the State
had already shown signs of recovery by
putting out a new growth, and along the
Halifax and Indian rivers, and in the south
ern portions of the orange belt, had come
TO bloom. AS far as can be learned this
bloom and new growth have been destroyed.
1t is usually considered that a. budded
orange tree will be injured by a temperature
OF twenty-five degrees continued for a few
hours. Sap was running up into the trees,
making them more susceptible to cold than
in December, when they were in their DOR
mant condition. Pineapples were also be-
ginning to bloom in the Indian river coun-
try, and these now, too, have been ruined,
but 1t is probable that the pineapples on
Lake Worth have escaped.
Following are the lowest temperatures
registered at the various points named dur
ing the freeze of the past week: Jackson
Vile, Ia, with ice two inches thick; Titus
Vile, Is; Tampa, %, with snowstorm; Ju-
piter, %; Key West, 48; Pensacola (as low
as any point in the State where the gov
eminent has a weather bureau estabiished),
u; Bonifax, II, where vegetables are killed.:
Gainesville, Is, with heavy loss to orange
3D.. Anelote, 28, with snow, which is unpre-
cedented; Silver Springs Park, Is, vegetables
and strawberries reported ruined; Gala
han, 10. vegetation destroyed; Seville, 10,
and Phoenix 16. Advices from Palm Beach
and Lake Worth tonight are that the
damage done there. is very slight. The lat
est indications for Florida are that there
Will be a slight frost in the northern Dor
tons tonight, followed by warmer weather
and a rapid disappearance of the cold wave.