The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-09
WORST EVER KNOWN.
The Storm Has Caused Intense Suffering
All Over tho World.

veloped in vapor to-day. The storm last
night was unusually severe. No vessels
have been sighted from Sandy Hook in
ward bound. No word has been received
from the La Gascogne, due Sunday.
NEW YORK, Feb. Sat Sandy Hook the
wind is blowing nearly GO miles an hour
and nothing can be distinguished at any
great distance from the shore. Direct tele-
graphic communication with Fire island
is stopped. the cable connection having
been broken by the ice in tho great south
bay. Should the La Gascogne, now five
days overdue, be anywhere near tho coast
sho could not DO seen until close to Sandy
Hook.
The White Star steamer Teutonic is now
about two days behind her best recorded
time and the belief grows that she may be
assisting the La Gascogne.
The Red Star line steamer Rhineland,
l3 days out from Antwerp, has not been
reported.
Up to . p. IN. nothing has been seen of
the overdue steamer La Gascognc nor of
the Tcutonic and other steamers now due.
New HAVEN, Conn, Feb. Sat 10 80
this morning a big steamer, believed to be
the Fall River boat Pilgrim, was sighted
from Savan Rock going east and about
three-quarters of mile from the shore.
There was thick mist outside and the
boat could not be clearly seen, but appar-
emily was all right, as she moved along
speedily and was soon out of sight, going
westward. The probabilities AIRY the boat
is making for New London cautiously.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, Feb. s.-Thc fishing
schooner John L. Mckenzie, which came
in this afternoon, reports a big ocean
liner out IN the bay trying TO make land.
The captain of the Mckenzie believes it is
tho Teutonic of the White Star line.
FALL RIVER. Mass. Feb. S.-The steamer
Pilgrim of the Old Colony, New York and
Fall River line, due at 6 o'clock this morn
ing. had not arrived at noon.
CHICAGO, Feb. S.-The weather is in
tensely cold here to-day, thermometers
showing l6 degrees below. A strong north
wind odds to the severity of the cold.
BANGOR, Me-, Feb. s.-The highest tide
over known here flooded the warehouses
along tho river this morning. Stacking
lime started fire which threatens the
business section of the city.
BosToN, Feb. s.-An unconiirmed dis
patch from Halifax says that 100 houses
and business buildings have been swept
away by n tidal wave. 1t is believed that
many lives have been lost.
MARsHALLTowN, Iowa, Feb. S.-The in
tense cold of the past week reached a cli-
max at 4 a. m. to-day, when the thermom-
same throughout the state.
PANA, ILL.,, Feb. SIT was % below zero
here at o'clock this morning.
New YORK, Feb. S.-The fishing
schooner Emma was wrecked by ice in
a 4. -
son and four sailors reached the shore in
n dory. Four other sailors in another dory
are missing.
TAMPA, Fla, Feb. S.-Snow fell hero
for four hours to-day, the first on record.
The mercury fell to "a degrees above last
night, but is slowly rising to-day. The
orange trees are killed and the damage to
truck and fruit farms is enormous.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. S.-The tug Welcome,
with life saving crew, started out this
morning TO save three men who drifted
away from the water works crib on n raft
last night. 1t is expected tho boat and
raft with the frozen bodies will be found
about IL miles from the shore. One man
is in the boat without oars and two are on
the raft.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, Feb. S.-The school
to close all schools at noon owing to the
extreme cold.
New YORK, Feb. S.-The worst snow
storm since the blizzard of March II. 1888,
started in last evening and has continued
uninterrupted to this time. Traffic on
the surface street railways is much de-
laycd and the elevated roads are taxed
beyond their capacity. Tho ferry boats
l,s,.r
snowbouud on the railroads.
SOUTH INGoNIsH. n. b.. Feb. s.-Tho
telegraph lines are down and buried in
rocks for half mile. Twenty-Five houses
and shops have boon washed off tho
beach. Nothing was saved at Mlddlehead.
All the fish stores are swept away. At
New Haven all the fish stores and dry
goods stores are gone. These are the re-
suits OF Tuesdays storm.
Jacksonville, Fla, Feb, S.-Tho rner-
curry fell to IA degrees above zero in Jack
sonyiilc. The coldes, points IN the state
was : NJ Jupiter, - ut Tampa and Is at
Tltusvillo. At Key Wcst and Palm Beach
the mercury dropped from 81 to 20.
Orange and other fruit trees are probably
killed, except the oldest aud toughest of
them, for they were budding and full of
sap, and therefore particularly susceptible
10 the cold. The loss will aggregate many
millions of dollars. All early vegetables
arc ruined and 10000 boxes of straw
berries, which would have been shipped
from February % TO March 10. arc de-
stroyel. The plants are also ruined. The
prediction for tonight is still lower TEN.
perature over tho entire southern PENN
sula.
LEXINGTON. k.., Fcb. S-Thc ;hcruon,-
ctcr registered Il below zero this morning
IT - DAD.