The record-union., 1899-02-14
| HEAVY STORMS IN
| EASTERN STATES,
Continued from First Page,

days, with care. Potatoes, flour and
salt pork are the articles of diet
Stock is suffering, and between eighty
and ninety head of horses between
Wheeler and Leadville have scarcely
any food whatever An effort will be
made to dig road across the noun
tains to Pando, near Red Cliff, on the
main line of the Rio Grande,. in order
to supply the towns between Kokomo
and Leadville, should the South Park
remain unable to clear their line with
in the next week. The wagon road
would be but ten miles in length, and
the prospectors from Wheeler state
that the proposition is to have every
able-bodied man turn out and shovel
snow.
A relief train and work train sent
out from Boulder by the Colorado and
Northwestern Railway succeeded in
getting only as far as Klondike Point
There has been no suffering SO far in
any of the mining camps on that line,
but coal and provisions are running
short.
COLD WAVE IN THE SOUTH.
ATLANTA (Ga.), Feb. 13.-The South
unprecedented severity From the Gulf
OF Mexico northward, from the Atlantic
Coast to the west boundary of Texas,
the cold wave has settled heavily on
the country and produced the lowest
temperature ever known. Admission,
Ala, reported the lowest temperature
10 below-at Z o'clock this morning.
Atlanta comes next with $50 below,
recorded officially. This is the lowest.
ever known here, the low mark being
broken by 6 degrees Street thermome-
ters recorded 10 and y degrees below
this temperature. This is accompanied
by wind which reached a velocity of
10 miles an hour, and made the cold
almost unbearable
Great suffering was reported to the
police early in the day, and prompt
measures were taken for relief The
< Allan" journal and the Atlanta
Constitution Company furnished coal
and provisions to hundreds of families.
large number Of people with frost
bitten hands, faces, ears and noses were
cared for early in the morning, and
ten cases were sent to the Grady Hos
pital. One week ago the temperature
here was 70
Street car traffic is demoralized. no
cars having run on the lines since Sat-
urday night. Four inches of snow
covers the ground
Superintendent Stevens of the West
ern Union reports telegraph facilities
badly demoralized There is no con-
nection with New Orleans or Jackson
vile, Fla, and many wires in every
direction have snapped ais they were
frozen from the cold. The storm IN
the vicinity of Mobile has wrecked all
wires to New Orleans, and a large crew
of linemen left Mobile early this morn
ing in an effort to restore communica-
ton.
Among the temperatures reported to
the Weather Bureau are the following
all below zero: Nashville II, Knoxville
10, Selma (Ala.) 6, Birmingham 5. Co
lumbus (Ga.) 4, Mobile /, Montgomery
(Ala.) and many others lowering near
the zero mark.
IN TENNESSEE.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 13.-The cold snap
is record breaker for West Tennessee.
Arkansas and Mississippi. Zero wealth
er has prevailed for several days, and
there has been much suffering among
poor people. The weather has caused
a. complete suspension of navigation on
the Mississippi River from Greenville,
Miss, north to Cairo. The wharf at
Memphis is ice bound Early bearing
fruit trees in Mississippi have been
withered by the intense cold and the
early fruit crop will be seriously im-
paired.
IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 13.-The coolest
weather ever known in Kentucky was
recorded to-day AT Louisville the
thermometer only reached 10 below, but
Lebanon showed a temperature of 50
below, Carlisle 30, Princeton 30 and
the highest recorded in reports from
twenty-five stations was 13 below.
AT Paducah negress and her child
were frozen to death in the field. In
many towns business is suspended. and
coal shortage is reported from all parts
Of the State. Coal advanced 2 cents a
bushel in Louisville. The Ohio River
is fast freezing. So far there has been
comparatively little suffering, but if
the cold weather continues any longer
there is certain to be a great deal. as
the coal supply is fast becoming ex-
hausted and the greatest difficulty is
experienced in getting fuel to the places
in need.
LEXINGTON, Feb. 13.-Attested
thermometers registered "A below zero
this morning. The poor were fed at
soup house all day, and various citizens
have donated coal.
IN MARYLAND.
BALTIMORE, Feb 13-Snow has
been falling in this city without inter
mission since O'Clock Saturday night,
and the wind has been blowing a gale
from. the northwest with the result that
the street car lines and all the steam
boat lines leading into the city are at
standstill
Reports from all parts of the State
shcw the same condition of things, and
much suffering among the farmers and
poor.
All trains are behind owing to snow
drifts on all lines.
IN ALABAMA.
BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 13.-Owing to
the intensely cold weather the ther-
mometer being 10 degrees below zero,
the Birmingham carnival recently
called the Mart11 Gras celebration which
was to have been held to-day and the
town is full of visitors. The present
blizzard is the worst on record.
MONTGOMERY, Feb. 13-The tenn
perature here at 5 a. m. was 5 below
zero. The lowest previous record. IN |
1856, was 5 degrees above zero. Two |
regrces were frozen to death. Il
IN DELAWARE. III
LEWES, Feb. ia terrible blizzard
is raging all along the coast. AT