The record-union., 1895-02-09
Special to the REcoRp.UN1ox.

| Special TO the RECORD-UNIoN.
New YORK, Feb. 8.-The storm which
swept over the greater part of the United
States last night and to-day still hovers
In the vicinity of New York, and threat
ems to continue for an indefinite time.
| With increasing force and violence,
hourly growing in severity. and with
scarcely a sign Of abatement, the blizzard
maintained its icy sway from Thursday
night until this afternoon, and continues
in slightly milder form tonight. To-day
and tonight the ferries, elevated roads,
surface cars, steamers, boats and pedes-
trians have been impeded, and in great
many cases stopped by the storm. The
steamers of the different lines plying be-
tween here and Boston have been seri-
OuSly intertered with, and the various
ferries have not been merely delayed but
! stopped for several hours. Compared
! with the blizzard of 1888, there has been
less snow, but the temperature has been
! much lower and the wind of greater
velocity. The storm has abated some
what tonight.
Dispatches to the Associated Press
! from interior towns in the State report
| that the storm is the most severe expert
| enced IN seven years. Railroad traffic is
| much lmpeded, traffic on street railways
| III many cases nearly suspended, and
! country roads are completely blockaded
with snow. In some localities the fall OF
snow in the last eighteen hours is re-
! ported 10 be as much as three feet, and
everywhere the high wind which pre-
| ValIs has created drifts of great size. At
Mlddletown four Erie trains are stalled.
| Throughout the length Of the New York
/ To ~ nrG
late, and generally local trains are sus-
pended. ON Long Island the storm was
at It's worst, causing much inconvenience
among the poor and eutailing much suf-
! fering.
/ In Western New York the storm is
/ very severe. Late in the afternoon the
New ork Central started out the North
Shore Limited, a through train for Chi
cagO, and every effort, it was said, would
be made to take it through without de-
lay.
FLORIDA FRUITS SUFFER.
JACKSONVILLE, Feb. Son top of the
freezing temperature last night, Tampa
reports snow falling at daybreak, and at
y O'Clock the snOwstOrm was Increasing
Ihls IS unprecedented IN that Florida
latitude. The mercury fell to l4o above
zero in Jacksonville. In Jupiter it was 49,
at Tampa %, and at Iitusville lS7. At
Key West and Palm Beach the mercury
:
/ only points in the State above freezing
| point.
! Oranges and other fruit trees are prob
ably all killed except the old and tough
! est of them, for they were budding and
! full OF sap, and therefore particularly sus-
ceptiDIe to cold. The loss will aggregate
many millions OF dollars. The average
! life OF a tree is thirty years, which means
! fully twenty prospective crops for trees
now beginning to bear. Ali early vege-
! tables are ruined, and 100000 boxes
! OF straw berries, which would have been
shipped from February 10th to March
| IOtn, are destroyed. The plants are also
ruined. There will probably be no early
strawberries from Florida this season.
The prediction for tonight is still lower
! temperature over the entire southern
| peninsula.
STEAMERS SURROUNDED BY ICE.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 8.-Two miles off
Manistee HarbOr, surrounded by large
fields that extend for miles into the lake.
are TWO large steamers, helpless and
without fuel. Aboard of them are about
sixty men and large consignments of
merchandise. They are the large car
ferries Nos. l and of the Ann Arbor
Line, whose massive crushsrs have here
tOtOre been considered capable OF plow-
ing through any part of the lake in win
! ter. Ihe Ann ArDOr Line has asked
Milwaukee vessel men to send relief, ami
arrangements have been made to send
help TO the ice bound vessels from Jud-
ington tomorrow. The boats have been
fast in the ice since last Friday, and every
ton of coal has been burned TO keep the
crews from freezing. To-day Captain
john Fitzgerald of the Milwaukee, Dry
Dock Company communicated the con-
dltIOn OF the ferries 10 the Flint Il Pere
Marquette Company, and as a result
word was received here this afternoon
that relief expedition would be sent out
from Huntington as soon as possible
Coal, and possibly some food, will be
taken TO the ferry boats. The car ferries
left kewaunee February Ist, and were
bound for Frankfort. Both carry large
cargoes OF Eastbound freight.
COLD WEATHER IN OHIO.
SPRINGFIELD (O.), Feb. Slow pres
sure OF natural gas to-day compelled the
dismissal OF most OF the public schools
on account of the cold weather
HEAVY SNOWFALL IN PENNSYLVANIA
HAzLEToN pa, Feb. S.-A train is
snOwbound on the mountain branch of
the Pennsylvania road. The train which
left here at IL o'clock for WeatherIv is
stalled on the Beaver NJ eadow branch.
Not mill or mine is working. Two
sleighing parties are lost in the mountain
road between here and Tamauaque, and
grave fears are entertained iOr their
safety.
ERIE (Pa.), Feb. S.-The continued cold
| weather has caused much suffering and
| Inconvenience. Fully one-half or the
| buildings OF the city are heated with
natural gas, piped eighty miles from the
oil regions. The cold weather has him
| dered the flow OF gas, as well as increased
the consumption. Coal and wood could
not be resorted to. for in most cases the
stoves are built for gas only. Erie Bay is
covered with eighteen inches of ice, and
water pipes IN all parts OF the city are
frozen.
WEATHER GROWING COLDER.
PITTsBURG (Pa.), Feb. S.-The weather
Is growing colder and the local weather
office mas issued q bulletin predicting the
worst blizzard for years in this section.
railroad and street-car traffic is seriously
lmpeded, all through trains being late.
The supply OF natural gas is very snort.
WEATHER IN WEST VIRGINIA.
HINTON CIV. Val, Feb. S.-Tbe ther-
mometer is from I40 to 20o below in the
mountains. Trains are being DELAYED
from two to twelve hours
4 GREAT BLIZZARD.
BALTIMORE (Md.}, Feb. S.-Disnatcbes
from all sections of the State show that
yesterdays storm approached in rnagni-
tude the great blizzard. For the Tirst
time IN years serious railroad biocI<aies
have occurred. In this city several street
car lines were at stand still this morn
ing. The Thermometer registered zero;
GREAT SUPPORTING IN GEORGIA.
SAvANEAH, Feb. S.-The temperature
tonight promises TO go lower than last
night, All vegetables are destroyed, but
can be repIanIed in time for early ship