Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-02-16
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The Thermometer Falls BeloH Zorro III
:, Many Places Throughout the South.
Land--SufferlnH Intense. Jj.

The Thermometer Falls 8eIoH Zorro Ii
Many Places Throughout the South.
Land--SufferIng Intense. II
| WAsHINaToa. p. O., Fetruary 49,
The weather department tonight issuet
the following statement:
Since Sunday night the Atlantic ooas
storm has moved from Florida to thu
Massachusetts coast with velocity ant
increased intensity such as has boon sol
dom equalled In tho history OF tho wea
thor bureau. y. ....." ...
Remarkably heavy snow has aocompa
Mod this storm and still continues at
O'Clock P. NJ. from Virginia Northward
Accompanying tho snow there were
Northerly Winds of hurricane velocity
and hurrioane warnings were issued al
noon on tho Atlantic coast from Della
ware Breakwater to Eastport.
So severe has boon this storm thai
there has been on almost total paraiysit
Of all classes of business in tho Middle
Atlantic States. In tho vioinity,of Wash
ington this storm has greatly exceeded
all previous records.
About twenty inches of snow has
fallen since Saturday afternoon and
thirty-four inches during the past eight
days. or equal interest with this storm
has boon the reoord-bEoahing, low tom,
peratures Of tho South, At Now Or
| loans this morning the temperature was
deSroes above zorro, 0 degrees lower
than any previous record, while at Jack,
| sonviiie it was 10 degrees above zero, OF
degrees lower than any previous record
The observer ut Jacksonville reports
hoavy SHOW and sleot during Sunday
night, and that great damage has been
done to- tho crops.
Tho limo Of froezing temperature in
Florida extended through the upper two
thirds of tho State, with minimum of
28 degrees at Tampa. At Koy Wost to,
night tho temperature Ia only 4s degrees,
23 degrees below tho normal.
Warnings of this destructive frooze
were issued during Saturday and Sunday
and supplemented for Florida this morn
ing. Warnings of tho norther and much
coldor weather were issued this morning
for Havana and tho Bahamas, tho same
being indicated for Tuesday morning.
Tho limo of zero temperatures this
morning extonds through Southern Lou
isiana, Southern Mississippi, Alabama
and Central Georgia, but during the day
thoro has been steady rise in the South.
west and tonight the temperatures range
from 20 degrees to so degrees. Through
out tho contral valleys, tho lake region
and tho west tho temperatures have
risen from 10 degrees to SO degrees, and
arc above the frcozing point in tho slope
region.
CHATTANOOGA FROZEN.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, February 49,
The thermometer in tho weather bureau
here ills morning registered 10 degrees
below zorro, the lowest point reached
since the establishment of the bureau,
twenty years ago, and tho coldest within
the memory of any resident Railroads
and street car lines arc having much
trouble keeping in operation, as they
arc unprepared for snow, loo and bitter
cold. Thoro is much suffering among
tho poorer classes, but no doaths arc re-
PSAoSN' AHo pubiiH pShoOio tIc
rarily suspended.
IN ASIIEYILLE.
AsHEvILLE, N. c., February 19.-The
mercury reached ID degrees below zorro
horo last night, the coldest evor known.
To-day it stood at 10 degrees below.
There is much suffering.
A RECORD DREAKER.
MEMPHIS, TENN, February 13.-Tho
present cold snap is a record breaker for
West Tennessee, Arkansas and Missis-
sippi. Zero weather has prevailed for
several days and there has been much
suffering among tho poor. Tho effect of
the weather has boon to cause complete
suspension of navigation on the Missis-
sippi from Greenville North to Cairo.
Early bearing fruit trees in Mississippi
have been withered by the intense cold.
MAIL CARRIER FROZEN.
LITTLE Rock, February 13.--A negro
mail carrier named Brozior, who for
many years has carried mail between
Little Rock and Fouroho Dam, in Pulaski
county, was frozen to death to-day. Tho
thermometer last night reached zero and
the weather to-day is worry cold.
SNOW AND SHOCK IN IYNCHBURa.
LYNcHDURG, VA, February 13.-Snow
foil here nearly all day yesterday and to-
day up to p. M, the total dopth boing
IL inches. The minimum temperature
for twentyfour hours up to o'clock to-
night was degrees above zero, with in
dications of going below zero before
morning. Passenger trains arc greatly
delayed I'll th0 way from two To eight
hours. There has beon no mail from tho
North since early morning up to this
time, o'clock tonight. A slight shook
of earthquake, though moro severe than
the kind usually felt in Virginia, was folt
hero at 4.30 a. m. Weather to- night clear
and strong winds.
sENTRIEs FROZEN ON POST
ANNIsToN, Ala, February 13.-Eaniel
Chairman, n negro, WAS found frozen stiff
in his bed this morning. Tho official
temperature early this morning WAS ID
below, the coldest over known. The en-
listed mon at Camp Shipp are well
equipped and suffered no Inconvenience
from the cold. Many sontries, mainly
negroes, however, fell on their beats
from numbness and had to bo taken to
tho hospital to be thawod out.
sLEET AND SNOW IN FLORIDA.
JAcKsoNvIILm, FLA, February 49,