Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16

Washington, reb. 14.-Since Sunday
night the Atlantic coast storm has
moved from Florida to the Massachu-
sets coast with a velocity and an in
creased intensity such as has been sell
dom equalled in the history of the
weather bureau. A remarkably heavy
snow accompanied the storm and still
continues from Virginia northward.
Accompanying the snow there are
northerly winQs Of hurricane velocity
there has been almost a total paralysis
Of all classes Of business in the middle
Atlantic states. About 20 inches of
snow has fallen since Saturday after
noon and "a inches in the past eight
days. Of equal interest with this
storm has been the record-breaking
low temperatures Of the south At
New Orleans yesterday morning the
temperature was above zero, 9 de-
grees lower than the previous record,
while at Jacksonville it was 10 above
zero, or 4 degrees lower than any pre-
vious record. The observer at Jack
sonville reports heavy snow and sleet
Storm during Sunday night and that
great damage has been done to the
crops. Throughout the central valleys,
lake regions and the west the temper
allure has risen 10 to 80 degrees. The
railway mail service is paralyzed by
the storm and the mails are at a stand
still throughout the Atlantic region.
No through trains arrived here from
the west over the Pennsylvania road
yesterday and only one over the Balti-
more & Ohio. All the Chesapeake &
Ohio trains were abandoned and there
were no trains either sent out or ar
irving over the Southern & Atlantic
Coast line. A famine of coal and pro-
visions is imminent in Washington on
account of . the railroads being
tied up. The price of every
thing in this line has scared sky-high.
The gas supply is being rapidly ex-
hausted and many street lamps are not
lighted. rhe condition of the poor,
particularly the large colored popula-
tons, is pitiful in the extreme One
of the most serious phases of the whole
situation is the danger from fires, the
| fire department being rendered prac-
| tically useless by reason of the deep
snow and low water pressure, which, in
! the high points of the city, has failed
| entirely. The Potomac is frozen from
its source to Point Lookout, where it
empties into the Chesapeake.
Kentucky's Zero Weather.
Louisville, Feb. 14.-The coolest
weather ever known in Kentucky was
recorded yesterday. At Louisville the
! thermometer only registered 10 below
! but the state suffered much more Lo-
banon showed SO below, Carlisle 80,
Princeton 80, and the highest record in
the reports from % stations was 13
| below. At Paducah a negro woman
and child were frozen to death in a
| field. In many towns business has
been suspended and a coal shortage is
! reported from all parts of the state.
Chicago People Rescued.
Chicago, Feb. 14.-After being aQrlft
on an ice-f1oe in Lake Michigan IoI
over Is hours, the five persons who
were carried out Sunday evening by
| the breaking OF OF the ice were res
cued, and it is not expected that any OF
| them will be much the worse
for their experience. Young
Arthur Fletcher, who made an
heroic effort to bring them
ashore in his boat and padded al
around ali night in fraiI craft, had
both feet badly frozen, ana will prob
ably be cripple for life. The names
of those saved are Elmer D. Brothers
Miss Orel Mannley, Chauncey MannIey
! Guy w. Caron, George Mallory The
| castaWay6 were discovered at daylight
! by two young men who had yentured
nearly four miles from shore in search
OF the missing persons and we're Joined
a few minutes later 10y Capt Fountain
and several Oarsmen Of the life saving
crew from the mouth of the Chicago
river. Miss Mannley, the only girl in
| the party, was unconscious from the
| cold and exposure, and the rescuers
were obliged to carry the insensible
| body of the half-froZen young woman
| to land. For five hours after she did
not regain her senses. The physicians
| think that she will recover entirely.
New York SnOwbound.
| New York, Feb. 1.-THE storm
which has been raging since Saturday
night increased in violence yesterday,
| becoming a thorough blizzard. Snow
| fell all day and is still coming down. A
bitter northwest wind drives the snow
in clouds through the streets The
street cleaning department, after
struggling for So hours to clear the
principal streets, gave up entirely,
even surrendering Broadway to the
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