Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-02-14
A WEEK AGO THE TEMPERATURE
WAS 72 DEG. ABOVE.
Cold Accompanied by a Wind Which
Makes Outdoor Life Almost I'm
bearable-Severnl Negroes
Have Been Found
Frozen to Death.

lures ever known.
Admission, Ala, reported the lowest tenn
perature-l5 below at Z o'clock this morn
ing. Atlanta comes next, with Sk below,
recorded officially. This Is the lowest ever
known here, the low mark being broken by
six degrees. Street thermometers recorded
10 and II below, and this temperature, ac-
companied by wind which reached a We
locity of fifteen miles an hour, made the
cold almost unbearable.
Great suffering was reported to the po-
lice early in the day and prompt measures
were taken for relief. The Atlanta Jour
nal and Atlanta Constitution Companies op-
Grated with police and furnished coal and
provisions to hundreds of families. A large
number of people with frostbitten hands,
faces. ears and noses were cared for early
in the morning and ten cases were sent to
the Grady hospital.
One week ago the temperature here
was Y.
Street car traffic is demoralized. no cars
having been run on some lines since Sat
urday night Four inches of snow covers
the ground. Superintendent Stephens. of
the Western Union. reports telegraph ia
cilities badly demoralized. There is no con-
nection with New Orleans or Jacksonville.
Fla. and many wires in every direction
have snapped.
The storm in the vicinity of Mobile has
wrecked all wires to New Orleans and q
large crew of linemen left Mobile early in
the day in an effort to restore communica.
ton.
Among the temperatures reported to the
weather bureau are the following-all be-
low zero: Nashville. 12: Knoxville, 10; Sell
ma. Ala. 6; Birmingham, 5; Columbus,
Ga, 4; Mobile. Ala, l.; Montgomery. Ala.
T. and many others lowering near the zero
mark.
LOUISVILLE, KY. Feb 1S-Associated
Press dispatches from throughout the
South to-day and tonight Indicate that
without exception the cold weather record
was broken in every state. Death and the
destruction of early fruits and vegetables
accompanied the cold blast. Up to mid
night the deaths of ten persons had been
reported. From Texas come reports of
considerable losses Of CATTLE together with
the utter ruination Of the oat and wheat
crops in some sections. Railroads in Vir-
Gtnia are blockaded owing to the heavy
snow drifts. From almost every section
come reports of fuel famines and great dis
tress among the poor. The temperature
| ranged to-day from 30 below zero at Lon
don, in the mountains of Eastern Ken
lucky, to Is above in the. orange belt of
Florida. In the latter state winter matur-
age was done to orange trees is yet in
doubt. In the extreme South the tele-
graph systems were demoralized the en-
tire day. the severe weather causing a
swapping Of the wires.
In the South the temperature ranged
from % degrees above zero to 10 below IN
Alabama and West Virginia. In Florida
and Louisiana this means a possible loss
| of millions Of dollars, for the orange groves.
destroyed four years ago last week, are
believed to be killed.
1t was II degrees warmer last night in
Medicine Hat than in Jacksonville, Fla
In Georgia, 1t is said Admission registered
| Is degrees below. Fuel is scarce, and the
| colored people are suffering. All shipping
| on the Mississippi from Cairo to Memphis
| Is at standstill. Coke and wood are be-
coming scarce in Virginia, and the owners
of what is left are making profits while
| the mercury drops. Drifts of snow ten
feet deep are reported, in some cases pre-
| venting burial Of the dead.
Although Kentucky is full of soft coal
mines, fuel famine is reported. The
peach crop is ruined and vegetation gen.
| orally blighted. South Carolina is prac-
tically without railroad transportation.
| Fuel is running short at Ca 1p Marion, in
that state. exposing Pennsylvania and Con-
necticut troops.
The following fatalities due to the ex-
treme cold, have occurred in this state
within the last twenty-four hours:
William Brockman, carriage painter
found dead in bed at Richmond.
Albert Maries, 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
1-year-old child; found dead in field near
Paducah.
Negro child, Cattlettsburg.
| MONTGOMERY, ALA, Feb. 13-The
weather to-day was the coolest ever known
here. The temperature at a. m. was 5
below zero. The lowest previous record,
In 1855. was S above zero. Two negroes
were found this morning frozen to death.
| SAVANNAH. GA, Feb. ia heavy
sleet yesterday, snow to-day, and the cold
| est weather ever known here, have para.
| lyZed all business. Street car service has
been broken up and all trains delayed. The
| schools were dismissed. A negro was found
| frozen to death in side street.
| BIRMINGHAM. ALA, Feb. Flowing to
| the intensely cold weather, the thermome-
ter being 10 degrees below zero. the Birm-
ingham Carnival Society has called off the
| Mardi Gras celebration which was to have
| been held to-day and tomorrow. The town
is full of visitors. The present blizzard is
| the worst on record.
| LITTLE ROCK, ARK, Feb. 13.-Tbe
thermometer last night reached zero, and
the weather is very cold to-day.
| An old negro mail carrier named Brozier,
| who for many years has carried the mail
| between Little Rock and Fourch Dam, in
| Pulaski county, was found frozen to death
| to-day.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. ls.-To-day the
temperature was six degrees above zero,
| nine degrees lower than any previous record.
| while at Jacksonville it was ten degrees
| above zero. or four degrees lower than any
previous record. The observer at Jackson
vile reports heavy snow and sleet during
Sunday night and that great damage has
been done to the crops.
The line of freezing temperature in Florf-
| da extended through the upper two-thirds
| of the state, with minimum of 2S degrees
| at Tampa. At Key West tonight the tenn
| perature is only As degrees, q below the
! normal.
Warnings of this destructive freeze were
issued during Saturday and Sunday and
supplemented for Florida this mornig
Warnings of the norther and much colder
| weather were issued this morning for Ha-
| indicated for Tuesday morning.
The line of zero temperature this morn
ing extends through Southern Louisiana
/ Southern Mississippi, Alabama and Central
| Georgia, but during the day there has been
| a steady rise in the Southwest and to-
night the temperatures range from 20 de-