Evening star., 1899-02-10
PERISH IN THE COLD
Indescribable Suffering of Cattle on
Texas Ranges.
CROPS IN PANHANDLE KILLED
Cold Wave Still Hovers Over East
ern States.
MAY MODERATE TOMORROW

| HOUSTON, Tex, February 10.-A special
from Dallas to the Post says:
Deputy Sheriff Davis returned to Dallas
last night from the Panhandle along the
line of the Fort Worth and Denver railway.
He says the storm, distress and desolation
are indescribable. At Texline the snow is
| five feet on the level. At Clarendon it
was two feet deep Thursday morning and
showing hard.
The mercury is 10 below there. The loss
of cattle along the railway is something
terrible. The cattle had practically no shell
| ter and in addition to this hardship there
| is no grass or water to be had, and their
| thirst and starvation hasten their death
| caused primarily by the bitter cold. Most
of the trains on the Fort Worth and Dem
| yer road have been abandoned. Extra en-
| gines and snow ploWs had to be employed
to get the train he was on through from
Clarendon to Fort Worth, and 1t arrived
| bars had to be used at water tanks to cut
| holes through the ice, and then the en-
gines had to be supplied with water by
| the use of buckets
| Farmers in the Panhandle wheat belt
| say the wheat has been killed The loss
to grain and cattle, Mr.. Davis says, will
| reach an enormous sum. There We're re-
| ports at stations of terrible distress among
| and it is regarded as a certainty that many
| persons have frozen to death.
Another Drop at New York.
NEW YORK, February 1O.-Yesterday
cold weather was not only continued to-
! day, but the temperature took another
| drop, the thermometer registering several
| degrees lower than yesterday. A number
of persons were found by the police in the
| streets overcome by cold and sent 10 vari-
Gus hospitals.
A. V. Nolan of Brooklyn. a tugboat fire
| man, was found frozen to death on a North
| river pier early today.
John kearney of Brooklyn was found in
| West New Brighton S. l., few minutes
| after Il o'clock this morning frozen to the
| ground. His hands We're frozen and he
| suffered severely from exposure. he was
| taken to hospital.
Charles Sailor, laborer, was found
| frozen to death at Coney Island.
i ne minimum temperature recorded was
at O'Clock this morning, when it was Z
| degrees below zero
The British steamer Daniel, from Shields.
| is frozen in the ice of the lower bay The
! marine observer at Sandy Hook report ed
| that the thermometers there showed from
o to 10 degrees below zero, according to ex-
| poT're. Great quantities of ice, broken
| away from the pack in the lower bay and
| joined into an immense field, We're passing
out Sandy Hook with the ebb tide.
Dispatches to the Associated Press from
|
| every instance the lowest temperature of
the season. At GAINESVILLE eight miles from
| Syracuse, John Hotaing was frozen to
death. Some of the public schools in Syra-
| cuse were obliged to close on account of the
| cold. In Rockland county the thermom-
| eters indicated 10 to 20 degrees below zero,
| and in Orange county from IA to % de-
| grees below. The Hudson river between
| Nyack and Tarrytown, where it is three
| miles wide, is frozen over-a very rare oc-
| currence Railway traffic is delayed in
| many places on account Of the cold.
| PhiIndelphia's Lowest Record
PHILADELPHIA, February 1O.-The Off
| cfal thermometer at Z o'clock this morning
| registered 6 degrees below zero, the lowest
| temperature recorded in Philadelphia since
| the establishment of the weather bureau
| The lowest previous record was below on
| January 10, 1875, and December 80, 1880
In the suburbs today the mercury fell to 10
| and L degrees below the mark, and
| from towns in the eastern end of the state
| reports were received showing that ther-
| mometers registered from 10 to 20 degrees,
| and in some Of the mountain sections the
| mercury even fell beyond the 20-degree
| mark Easton reports 10 below, Bethlehem,
| 10; Pottsville, 0; Reading, 49, Lancaster. 10;
| York, 16, and Harrisburg, 13. Wilmington
Del. reports 10 below, and other points in
| Delaware and the eastern shore of
| Maryland show even lower than 10.
| The cold wave in this city has yet
caused very little inconvenience to traffic
| except to river craft. The street car sys-
| tenn is somewhat retarded by trucks and
| wagons, which at times congestion
| of the car tracks through inability of the
| teams to pull through the deep snow on the
side of the car tracks. The Delaware river
is almost blocked with solid chunks of ce
| and although the city ice boats are working
| constantly in endeavoring to keep the ice
| broken, great inconvenience and delay to
| shipping is experienced.
Twenty below at PittsburE
| PITTSBURG, Pa, February 10.-AH cold
| weather records for this section We're brok-
| en- today, and a new record of 90 degrees
below zero established by the weather bu-
| reau.
Private thermometers registered from to
| 10 degrees lower Business is almost at
| standstill and fewer people on the
| streets than on any other week day in
| years. Schools were dismissed, outdoor la
| borers refused to work and every form of
| industry necesstating exposure to the
| weather was prac -lcally paralyzed Many
persons were severely nipped by Jack
| Frost. but no fatalities have been reported
One grewsome phase of the blizzard is its
effect on live stock shipped from surround
| ing towns to the stock yards in the East
End. The ears of many hogs dropped off,
they being SO badly frozen that the least
| touch caused them to fall TO the ground
| Cattle likewise suffered severely although
| but few of them died from the effects of
| their trip The cold weather has seriously
| trains
| from one-half hour to three hours late
| Navigation on the Allegheny, Mononga-
hela and upper Ohio has closed and the first
| named streams are frozen over The indi-
| cations today are for slightly warmer
weather.
| WILMINTON. Del. February 10-Last
| nights cold in this city and vicinity broke
| all records. In ordinary loca tions the mini
| mum record of thermometers was 10 de-
grees below zero. and in exposed places Is
| below. At O'Clock this morning the ay-
| erage in Wilmington was below zero and
| at IL o'clock the mercury still registered
| below. Reports of like severe cold are uni-
| form from all parts of the state
Rather Warm at Boston
| BOSTON, February 10.-The cold wave
| which reached this section yesterday in
| creased in severity during the night and this
| morning the mercury stood at degrees
| below zero at the weather bureau and from
to 10 below at various points in and about
! Boston. At Springfield the Thermometer
registered 10 below zero at q o,oloolr ts.;