Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-13

grees was noted. Fort Collins and Hol-
dredge reported 33 below, Sedalia 30. Lit
Teton, a few miles south of Denver, 30 be-
low, and at half dozen places il was re-
ported to be % degrees below. The Off
cials of the weather station here do not say
that the cold weather is entirely over. but
II is thought the storm on the mountains
has run its course.
Reports of losses in the live stock inter
ests in the west and southwest are coming
in, and while nothing like an accurate "stt-
mate of the extent of the losses can be
given now, it will undoubtedly prove very
large.
baltimore Car Lines Blocked.
BALTIMORE. February 13.-Snow has
been falling in this city without intermis-
sion since o'clock Saturday night. and
during most of that time the wind has been
blowing almost a gale out of the north
west, with the result that the street car
lines and all the steamboat lines leading
INTO the city are almost at a standStill.
The fall of snow during the past eight
days has amounted in the aggregate 20
mere than fifteen inches, and the wind has
been blowing it into drifts, which in some
places are as much as six feet deep on the
sidewalks and in the streets. No such fall
or snow has ever been recorded in this
vicinity. Reports from all parts of the state
show the same condition of things, and
much suffering, both among the farmers
and the poor of Baltimore. has resulted.
All the railroad lines leading into the
city are running trains, but as a rule they
are much behind time, owing to heavy
snow drifts on all the lines.
South is Shivering Too.
ATLANTA, Ga, February 13-The south
shivered today in a temperature of unpre-
cedented severity. From the Gulf of Mexi-
co ncrthward, and from the Atlantic coast
to the west boundary of Texas, the cold
wave has settled heavily on the country
and produced the lowest temperatures ever
krown
Admission, Ala, reported the lowest tenn
perature-i5 below at o'clock this morn
ing. Atlanta comes next with 81 be-
low recorded officially. This was the
lowest ever known here the low
mark being broken, 6l2 degrees
II below, and this temperature, accom-
panied by q wind which showed a velocity
OF ffteen miles an hour made the cold al
most unbearable. Great suffering was re-
ported TO the police early in the day and
prompt measures were taken for relief
The Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Consti-
tntion co-opefated with the police and fur
nlshed coal and provisions to hundreds of
families, large number of people with
ffostbltfen hands, faces, ears and noses
We're cared for early in the morning and
ten cases were sent to the Grady Hospital
one week ago the temperature here was -
Street car traffic Is demoralized no cars
| having been run on some lines since Satur-
Cay night Four inches of snow cover the
ground
Super ntendent Stephens OF the Western
Union reports telegraphic facilities badly
demoraliZed. There is no connection with
New Orleans or Jacksonville Fla. and
many wires in every direction have snap
ped, as they We're frozen from the cold.
The storm in the vicinity of Mobile has
wrecked all wires to New Orleans. and a
large crew of linemen left Mobile early IN
the day in an effort to restore communica-
tion.
Among the temperatures renorted to the
weather bureau are the folowing-all below
zero: Nashville, 12; Knoxville. 10; Selma
Ala, G; birmingham. 5: Columbus 4: Mo-
bile, |; Montgomery. 4. and many others
lowering near the zero mark.