Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-02-16
HEAVY STORM SWEEPS THE AT
LANTIC COAST.
CAUSES MUCH SUFFERING
Business in New York and Washington
Practically Suspended-Sh Shortage
in Coal. Provisions and Gas Threat
enea--All trains Are AOauuoned-
Chicago Young People Rescued,

Washington, eb l4,-Siuce Sunday
night the Atlantic coast storm has
| moved from Florida to the Massachu-
sets coast with a velocity and an in
creased intensity such as has been sell
dom equalled in the history OF the
weather bureau. 4 remarkably heavy
snow accompanied the storm and still
continues from Virginia northwara.
| Accompanying the snow there are
northerly winos of hurricane velocity.
| So severe has been this storm that
| there has been almost a total paralysis
/ Of all classes OF business in the middle
! Atlantic states. About 20 inches of
! snow has fallen since Saturday after
! noon and "a inches in the past eight
days. OF equal interest with this
storm has been the record breaking
/ low temperatures of the south At
| New Orleans yesterday morning the
! temperature was above zero, de-
grees lower than the previous record.
while at Jacksonville il was 10 above
zero, or 4 degrees lower than any pre-
yious record. The observer at Jack
sonville reports heavy snow and sleet
storm during Sunday night and that
great damage has been done to the
crops Throughout the central valleys
| lake regions and the west the temper
allure has risen 10 to So degrees. The
railway mail service is paralyZed by
the storm and the mails are at a stand
still throughout the Atlantic region
No through trains arrived here from
the west over the Pennsylvania road
yesterday and only one over the Balu-
more & Ohio. All the Chesapeake 4
Ohio trains were abandoned and there
were no trains either sent out or ar
irving over the Southern & Atlantic
Coast line. A famine of coal and pro-
visions is imminent in Washington on
account Of the railroads being
lied up. The price of every
thing in this line has scared sky-high.
The gas supply Is being rapidly ex-
hausted and many street lamps are not
! lighted The condition OF the poor
particularly the large colOred popula-
| tions, is pitiful in the extreme. one
of the most serious phases of the whole
/ situation is the danger from fires, the
/ fire department being rendered prac-
4 tically useless by reason OF the deep
snow and low water pressure, which, in
| the high points Of the city, has failed
entirely. rhe Potomac is frozen from
! its source TO Point Lookout where it
empties into the Chesapeake.
Kentuckys Zero weather
Louisville, Feb. l4.-The coolest
weather ever known in Kentucky was
recorded yesterday. At Louisville the
! thermometer only registered 10 below
but the state suffered much more. Lo-
! banon showed 80 below, Carlisle 80,
! Princeton 80, and the highest record in
4 The reports from % stations was 10
| below, At Paducah a negro woman
and child were frozen TO death in a
/ field In many towns business has
/ been suspended and a coal shortage is
reported from all parts of the state
Chicago People Rescued.
Chicago, Feb l4.-AfJer being auriit
on an lce-noe in Lake Michigan lor
We're carried out sunday evening by
the breaking or OF the Ice were res
/ aUad, and { Is not expected rhat any OF
,aem viii be much the worse
/ FOR their experience. Young
Arthur Fletcher who made an
/ heroic effort TO bring them
| ashore in his boat and padded al
around all night in frai craft had
/ both feet badly frozen, ana viii prob
ably be a cripple for life. The names
OF those saved are Elmer ID. Brothers,
/ Miss Orel Mannley, Chauncey Manniey,
( Guy ". Caron George Mallory The
castaways were discovered at daylight
/ by two young men who had yentured
nearly four miles from shore in searcD
/ oil the missing persons and were joined
a few minutes later by Capt. Fountain
and several oarsmen OF the life saving
/ crew from the mouth OF the Chicago
river Miss Mannley, The only gin IN
/ the party, was unconscious from the
cold and exposure, and the rescucrs
we're obliged to carry the insensible
TO Land. For FIVE hours after she did
not regain her senses. The physicians
think that she will recover entirely.
New York Snowbound.
New York, Feb. 1.-THE storm
which has been raging since Saturday
night increased in violence yesterday
becoming a thorough blizzard, Snow
fell all day and is still coming down. A
bitter northwest wind drives the snow
In clouds through the streets The
street cleaning department, after
struggling for 80 hours 10 clear the
principal streets, gave up entirely.
even surrendering Broadway TO the
wind ard storm. The elevated roads
arc running irreguarly while in the
suburbs. whore the winds have a
sweep. drifts are to 10 feet high,
street railways have stopped alto
gether and suburban steam railroads
are blocked Many neighboring towns
are eut off from New York altogether