The record-union., 1899-02-10


wind has ranged from 20 up to SO miles
an hour throughout the cold snap, max
ing it doubly severe.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 9.-The winters cold
record was again broken last night The
official local mercury reached 33 below
zero.
IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9-This was the
coldest day of the winter in New York
and extremely cold for this latitude. At
a. m. the temperature was | degree
above zero. The local forecaster gives
warning of still lower temperature to-
night.
IN KANSAS.
WICHITA, Feb. 9.-It is reported
here that many cattle on the ranges are
suffering from frozen hoofs. This
usually proves fatal
IN MICHIGAN.
DETROIT, Feb. 9-The lowest point
reached by the official thermometers in
Detroit this winter was 13 degrees be-
low zero, at 8 o'clock this morning.
This is the coolest weather in two
years. Niles reports 26 degrees below
LIN A,
EVANSVILLE Qnd), Feb. 9.-This
Wac the coolest day in twenty years.
The Government Observers thermom-
eter registered Is degrees below zero.
At exposed points it showed 9 degrees
lower, and on the river front. where a
strong west wind has full sweep, the
mercury showed % below.
IN NEBRASKA.
OMAHA (Neb.), Feb. 9.-The Wealth
er Bureau thermometer registered a
fraction under 81 below zero this
morning. This is the coldest weather
on record since February 4, 1884, when
the record was 25 below.
IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE (Ky), Feb 9-Louis-
vile is experiencing the coldest wealth
er since 1884. The Government ther-
mometers to-day registered IA below.
Many private thermometers registered
as low as Is below. There is much suf-
fering among the poor.
LEXINGTON (Ky.), Feb. 9.-At Lex
ington the thermometer this morning
at o'clock registered 1S degrees be-
low zero, and during the entire day the
highest temperature was below The
peach crop is reported entirely killed.
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
PITTSBURG Pa.), Feb. 9.-Ten de-
grees below zero by the Weather Bu-
reau thermometer, and from 10 to 20
degrees below in more exposed places,
was recorded here to-day This is the
coldest it has been since January, 1879,
when the mercury dropped to u de-
grees.
AT WASHINGTON CITY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The ther-
mometer went to Z below zero IN the
early hours this morning, the lowest
since December, 1881. The air is clear
and the sun to-day is out, so that the
cold is not felt so much as the ther-
mometer reading would Indicate The
city is covered with deep snow from
the storms of the past week, and sleigh
ing is more general than in years. The
Potomac is frozen over.
IN FLORIDA.
JACKSONVILLE (Fla.), Feb. 9.-The
severest cold wave of the season COW
cred Florida last night and to-day In
the northern part of the orange belt
the range of the mercury was from
26 to 81 degrees. Only the young
spring growth on the orange trees was
injured and "drone'' or useless bios
SONS made to fall. Pineapples were
not hurt.
IN GEORGIA.
MACON (Ga-), Feb. 9.-Advices re-
ceived from the peach-growing centers
in South Georgia indicate that the
peach and plum crops have been cut
off at least a third, and maybe half,
hu tho r,rocauf cold cpon
IN TEXAS.
HOUSTON (Tex.) Feb. "a special
from Dallas to the Post" says: Dep
uty Sheriff Davis returned tonight TO
Dallas from the Panhandle along the
line Of the Fort Worth and Denver
Railway. He says the ssorm caused
distress and desolation. At Texline the
snow is five feet deep on The level. At
Clarendon it was two feet deep this
morning and showing hard. The mer-
curry was Is degrees below zero.
The loss of cattle along the line of
the railway is something terrible. =. he
cattle had practically no shelter, and
in addition to this hardship, there is
no grass or water to be ha6 and their
thirst and starvation hastened their
death, caused primarily by the bitter
cold.
Most of the trains on the Fort Worth
and Denver road have been abandoned.
Extra engines and snow plows had to
be employed to get the trains from
Clarendon to Fort Worth, and they ar
rived eight hours late. Axes, picks
and crowbars had to be used at water
tanks to cut holes through the ice, and
then the engines 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.
FORT WORTH (Tex.), Feb. 9.-The
heaviest snow known in Northern
Texas fell to-day. Street car traffic is
suspended. Reports from Northwest
Texas say cattle are dying in large
numbers from the severe weather
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