Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-02-15
COLD WAVE LACONIcS.

over 900 travellers are rnowbound n,
Altoona. Pa.
Tho zero mark was reached at Pom.
nacola, Fla. yesterday.
The Ice gorge above vicksburg Il
causing much distress 10 steamboat
ment.
Bayous Tcrrc Bonnie and IN Fourchc.
In. arr frozen for the frst time since
the war.
The Reading company has called out
10000 employees TO assist In raising the
blockade.
The Pennsylvania road has posted
notices. calling for hundreds OF mon to
clear the tracks.
A water famine Ia imminent through
out the Pennsylvania coal regions. ow-
lng 10 the frcvze.
The Twelfth infantry Is delayed by
storm at Cumberland. The men are
well provided for.
The Potomac river II frozen clear 10
it mouth. and the Ice II covered with
n heavy coating OF snow.
Orange growers letters from Florida
are rccitaia OF iccbound trees and
fruit that In ruined by the cold.
Reports from all sections or Missls-
aippi indicate very severe weather. and
there has been much damage TO crops.
For the second time In the history OF
pittsburg railroad communication with
the eastern coast has been entirely cut
on.
throughout Georgia the early vcge-
tables have been killed. and the peach
crop and other fruits almost entirely
destroyed.
bayou ~. John. at tho Espianade
ridge on the outskirts OF New Orleans.
II frozen. and there was skating yeHter-
day morning.
New York city finds itself unable TO
OF thc blizzard. sixiy-Aix bodies aro at
tho morguc.
In the large orchards about raycttc-
VILE. Ark, many trees have burst open
from the cold. and several horses and
cows have frozen TO death.
on the gulf coast the Temperature
has been below zero. Hay 81. Louis.
which enters the Mississippi sound, IL
frozen at Andcrnon'H poin,.
Doston and vicinity IL nnowbound
after two days and two nights con.
inuour snowfall. The streets are badly
blocked and trains are stalled.
Reports from all over the northern
part OF Texas are that the biixzards Of
Saturday ana sunday were tho most
severe In the history OF the state.
GalyeHton'a temperature Monday
was ten above zero. II was not ~
cold nn Sunday morning. but there was
less wind and the bay Is frozen over
At Washington the snowfall was
twelve Inches, or n total OF thirty-fiv.
Inches during the past eight days, by
far the greatest fall for at least CO
years.
owing TO the extent and extreme
deftfuctivones the storm OF this week
always be remembered as the graateat
storm IN the history Of the Atlantic
coast States
Throughout the State OF Louisiana
heavy damage has been done 20 tho
vese,able and orange eropa IN spite OF
the warnings that were sent before the
approach OF the cold wave.
At Fayetteville. Ark. the thermo-
meter Sunday morning registered
twenty-four degrees below aero, which
" about fifteen degrees colder than
has ever been known here.
In the vicinity OF Waco. Tex, oats
are ruined and wheat no seriously IN |
lured ns 10 amount TO destruction. |
Fruit crops are not injured, Great |
damage has been done TO liye-Htoek
la Philadelphia tho snow ceased ful.- |
ms about two a. M. yesterday, with a |
record OF fourteen inches sine, Satur-
de-. night This came ON top 81 about
ten inches that had fallen last week.
a cattle train consisting OF seven
cars on the pittsburg. virginia 4
Charleston road, was caught ia the
storm Mondny might ana every animal
Ierishrn, y carload OF hogs On the
came road WAS frozen.
Miners who arrived In ,.eadv.lis yer.
torday on snocahoea from Roblnaon,
fnS tiitl NJ Robinson. kokomo aud
Other t'iN M ciong the South Park high
liar. which IN sim block l.lsi, there 10
no .el or fresh meats.
An records for tho temperatures In
Arkansas have been broken. and Feb
ruary ~. 1909, viii be treasured up In
the memory Of the Oldest Inhabitants
for years 10 come. Twelve below zero
was the mark.
The thermometer has made a new
record In south Texas, reaching four
degrees above. The loss To stock viii
be very heavy. Houston reports early
vegetables damaged 10 the amount OF
ut least siooo.Qoa