New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-06
SWEPT BY 10Y WINDS.
THE CITY HAVING AN INTENSELY COLD
SNAP.

INCOMING VESSELS COVERED WITH IcE-THE
MERCURY LOWERING AROUND ZERO.
The cold wave which swept the city yes
terday ordinary one and 1t sent the
mercury sliding down the thermometer tubes at
a great rate. A strong northwest wind blew all
day and all night and cut like knife as 1t
rushed through the city's streets and went
sweeping out on the ocean to stir the cold waves
to anger and add to the perils and nardships OF
the winter seas.
Ii was the coolest day Of the winter, and only
two days last winter equalled 1t. The day was
clear and for those who could stand the cold
the atmosphere was bracing. For the poor who
were not properly clad unable properly TO
warm their homes It was a day Of suffering.
The sun set in clear sky and a clear ana
starit night succeeded the clear. cold day All
day the Bay and the rivers had an Arctic LOOK
for great quantities Of ice came flooding down
and covered the waters N places with great
white fields through which vessels made tneir
way with difficulty. a fleet Of vessels came In
from sea all glittering and white in the sunlight
The ocean spray and the dashing waves stirred
by the northwest gales had broken over them
and drenched them, covering them all from stem
TO stern with ice and freezing in fantastic
shapes all about their rigging.
The steamer ArdancOrracn. from ClenIueB"s'
had fine weather UP TO Hatteras on that stormy
cape she caught rapid succession OF strong
northwest gales and high seas with intensely
cold wea ther When the steamer came UP through
the Narrows she mass of ice. ana shohe
IN the sunlight like vessel OF glass. Inc
schooner Southern Cross. from Cartagena. caught
tho bitter gales off Barncgat. The spray OF the
heavy seas aew over her and froze on her decks
and in the rigging. She was badly iced ana
,u,o of her crew. who are Mosquito Indians. were
hsdlv frostbitten The steamer Justin. from bra
lillian ports came ir with her sides. decks anu
rigging thickly coated with ice. The crews on
ali the vessels coming from the tropics SUFFERED
severely. -, -
The cold wave yesterday extended all over
the country II was intensely cold In the North
west I'm the morning and grew colder IA the DAY
wore on II was "a degrees below zero AT S''
Paul Yesterday morning and IL degrees Deiow
at chicago At Buffalo IL was degrees below
and was zero at Cincinnati Cleveland and 81.
Iouis Al Omaha IL l4 degrees below. ana
nj Portland. Me-. below. In this city the tner-
mometer OF the Weather Bureau recorded
ternperatura OF degrees above zero at o ciock
I'm the morning and the same temperature d. .
o'clock at night In the evening the mercury
fell rapidly and a: midnight was degree ABOVE
zero There was very prospect that II "ouu
get down 10 zero before morning
Last year there were two days In FEBRUARY
when the mercury dropped to one degree ABOVE
zero. - ,o,,ora,uro
"a follows: At 3 o'clock a. m. 10 degrees; o
o'c,ocL 3 degrees 9 o o'clock degrees; noon' ~
degrees: $3.50 O'Clock. II degrees; b O'CLOCK > 9e
grees; O'Clock. degrees. ana mdnlsnt ',aa ue
srees The average temperature yesterday was
7s degrees The wind blew twenty-elsnt n'iles
an hour I'm the city and fortyeight miles an hour
M Sandy Hook