The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-02-14
SNOW BOUND
Following the Record Breaking
Cold Spell Throughout East
and South
Comes a Record Breaking Biz.
zard Covering the Same
Territory.
Thirteen Inches Of Snow at WASH
ington Almost Paralyzes
Everything.
Traffic in New York Almost SuS-
pendeu.-IntenSe Cold in the
South.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.-The phe-
nomenal weather Of the past week cul
minated in a blizzard-like snowstorm
which broke all records and left
no room for the oldest inhabitant to say
the winters We're no longer as severe as
when he was a boy. The temperature
record was smashed last week when
the thermometer Went to II below zero,
and a snow record was established when
to the heavy fall Of the past week thir-
teen ::inches was added from SATURDAY.
night up to 10 a. III. At the hour when
the weather bureau made this obserya-
ton. the snow was falling as fast and as
heavily as at any time since it began,
and a high wind was piling it in huge
drifts.
At noon there had been 40 let IN at
al Ill the snowfall. and the sky gave no
indication of Immediate relief. though
The weather bureau held out an indetil-
tie promise that the storm would pass
over within a few hours. The one favor.
able element in the storm situation was
the comparatively moderate tempera-
ture. the thermometer showing 10 de-
grees above zero. Behind the snow
storm is a cold wave. SO that when the
snow abates. zero and below is likely to
add to the suffering. Business is prca-
tically suspended. Street cars either
were running not at all. or SO infre-
Quently as to be of little real service.
The car lines chief value in fact con-
sisted IN the path the car sweepers made
for pedestrians whom duty sent forth in
the storm. Business in the departments
was almost at a standstill. less than half
the force reporting. At noon the
treasury department dismissed the
clerks and other employees for the day.
and other departments, it was expected.
would follow suit. The paralysis to all
KINDS OF business was the worst since
the fierce blizzard of March. 1855. The
telegraph wires We're in better working
order than then. but aside from better
communication with the outside world,
the conditions then were not comparable
TO those in this vicinity. Railroad
traffic was almost abandoned, the only
train up to Q being a local from Bal
tlmore. The Potomac is frozen over
with six inches Of ice and unless broken
a flood is quite probable that will in
undat the lower sections Of the CITY.
especially as reports from the mountains
north and west Of the city show that
they are buried deep in the snow.
Weather Bureau Bulletin.
The weather bureau has issued a
special weather bulletin stating that bv
Tar the most important feature of the
weather is the extreme cold weather
which prevails through the gulf states
and Tennessee. The zero line extends
through the central Louisiana, southern
Mississippi, southern Alabama and CEN
trail Georgia. At New Orleans the min
lmum temperature was six degrees,
which was nine degrees lower than n
previous record. At Vicksburg the
minimum temperature was one degree
below zero: at Montgomery, four de-
Srees below zero: at Atlanta, six de-
grees below zero, and at gulf region the
temperatures were from three to nine
degrees below any previous record.
Another remarkable feature of this
weather was the heavy snow which
extended through the whole Atlantic
coast districts almost to the Florida.
particularly heavy SHOWS having fallen
IN the Potomac valley and upper Chesa-
upaka rouion