The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-14

Although Kentucky is full OF soft Goa
mines, a fuel famine Is reported. TIT
peach crop is ruined and vegetation gen
orally blighted. South Carolina IS prac
tically without railroad transportation
Fuel is running short al Camp Marion il
that state, exposing Pennsylvaia ant
Connecticut troops.
At Louisville the Thermometer only
reached 10 below today but the state suf
fered much more. Lebanon, KY, showed
a temperature Of SO below; Carlisle. 30
Princeton. 90, and the highest recorded ir
reports from twenty-five stations was /:
below.
The following fatalities due to the ex-
treme cold wave have occurred in this
state within the last twenty-four hours:
WILLIAM ROCKMAN, carriage paint
er; found dead in bed at Richmond.
ALBERT NAPLES. overcome by the
cold near Jellico, and was dead when
found.
Mail carrier from Hazard, Perry county,
| to Mount Elkhorn.
Colored woman, name unknown, and
her two-year-old child; found dead in a
| field near Paducah.
Negro child, Cattlesburg.
! Atlanta, Ga, Feb. .13.-The south shiv-
cred today in a temperature OF unprece-
! dented severity. From the Gulf Of Mexico
| northward and from the Atlantic coast
to the west boundaries Of Texas, the cold
wave has settled heavily on the country
| and produced the lowest temperatures
ever known AT lanta's temperature to-
day was 81 below, recorded officially.
This is the lowest ever known here, the
low mark being broken by six degrees
Street thermometers recorded ten and
twelve below, and this temperature &C
coEpanied by wind which reached ve-
| locfty of fifteen miles an hour, made the
cold almost unbearable. Great suffering
was reported to the police early in the
day and prompt measures were taken for
relief. The Atlanta Journal and Atlanta
Constitution company operated with 1he
police and furnished coal and provisions
to hundreds of families. 4 large number
of people with frost-bitten hands. faces,
ears and noses Wee cared for early in
the morning, and ten cases wee sent TO
the Grady hospital. One week ago the
temperature here was y.
Street car traffic is demoraiiZed, no
cars having been run on some ines since
Saturday night. -Four inches Of snow
covers the ground. Superintendent
Stevens of the Western Union reports
telegraphic facilities nearly demoralized
There is no connection with New Orleans
or Jacksonville, Flo, AID many wires in
every direction have snapped as they
were frozen from the cold. The storm in
the vicinity of Mobile has wrecked all
wires to New Orleans and a large crowd
of linemen left Mobile early in the day in
an effort to restore communication.
Among the temperatures reported to the
weather bureau are the following-all be-
low zero: Nashville, u; Knoxville, 10;
Selma, Ala, 6; Birmingham, 5; Columbus,
Ga, 4; Mabile, Ala, 1; Montgomery, Ala,
4; and many others lowering near the zero
mark,
Birmingham, Ala. Feb. Blowing to
the intensely cold weather, the thermom-
eter being 10 degrees below zero, the Biz
mingham Carnival SOCIETY has called of
the Mardi Gras celebration which was to
have been held today and tomorrow. The
town is full of visitors. The present biz
Zard is the worst on record.
Memphis. Tenn, Feb. 13.-The present
cold snap is a record breaker for west
Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi
Zero weather has prevailed for several
days and there has been much suffering
among poor people. The effect of the
weather has been to cause a complete
suspension of navigation on the Mssis-
to Cairo. The wharf at Memphis is ice
bound. Early bearing fruit trees in Mis-
sissippi have been withered by the in
tense cold and the early fruit crop will be
seriously impaired.
Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 13.-The Their |
mOmeter last night reached zero and the
weather was very cold today. An old ne
gro mail carrier named Brozier VINO for
many years has carried mail between |
Little Rock and F'ourche, in Pulaski coun- |
ty, was found frozen to death today
Nashville. Tenn, Feb. 19.-The weather |
here today was the coolest on record. |
There is much suffering on account of |
the lack of coal, but the coal trains are |
being sent in as rapidly as possible.
Lexington, Ky, Feb. 13.-Attested Their |
registered II degrees below zero |
this morning. The poor have been fed |
free at a soup house all day and various |
citizens have donated coal Only two /
coal yards in Lexington have any coal. |
and they VIII not furnish to any person
more than a ton. Coal has jumped from |
225 to $500 a ton. Tonight the weather |
bureau predicts a drop to 50 below zero.
Richmond, Va, Feb. 13-The blizzard |
ragged here today in full force and vigor.
1t has showed necessarily since Saturday
afternoon. anad the thermometer regis
tered only six above zero this afternoon.
The snow has drifted five or six feet in
places and the suffering IS intense. No
street cars or railroad trains ara moving
at ALL either in or cut of Rlcnmond. ana
business is at a standstiu. THAI is great
fear of a fuel fannie and the ,laaIers can
scarcely deliver the most urgent orders.
Washington, Feb. ia Cumberland.
Nd, special to the Evening Star says:
snow has fallen necessarily since Satur-
inc /
abatement. Temperatures hovers about
zero. Railroad traffic is demoralized.
The country IS blocked. Dealers are out
If coal and a famine is threatened. JOS
aph and Amos Collins. hunters. are be-
ieved to be frozen to death in the noun
aims near Romney.
Hoods Sarsaparilla- containing such
power. is the best medicine tha.
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