The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-14
STORM BAD IN
NORTH CAROLINA
The Snow Falling for Fifty Hours and
Unabated.
NO MAILS ARE MOVING,
The Temperature the Lowest Ever
Known and the Snow Fifteen
Inches Dccp-rhc Trains Are All
AnnuIled on Account Of 1t.
NO MAILS ARE MOVING,

WELDON. y. C., Feb 49, Special
Tho snow storm IS the worst ever known
here. No trains can move. Two engines
hitclcd together were unable % move
ON thc ward to-day the wrecldng train
which arrived at =. NJ. 20 get trcisni
train from under the shed.
The train has two damaged engines
attached
10 mails have arrived to-day. Snow
has been falling fifty hours and the Inc
dications point TO more tonight.
TRAINS ANNULLED.
ROCKINGHAM. y. g.. February H.
Snccial-Ten 90 fourteen-incnes ol Sn'"
considerably driUed. covers the ground
JOB this section. The mercury Tell 10 SIX
thls morning.
An trains on the seaboard Airline
nave been onnmled for twenly-iouI
hours on account OF Che snow.
VERY COLD AT WINSTON
WINSTON \ c.. Feb. l3.-Spccial-
The mercury here registered TWO de-
eroos below zero this morning. snow la
.l, inches deep and in many places where
driftcd # Is ten feet Coal ana Noou
xre both scarce and the demand Tot IL
10 great. The city is aiding "a number
~ peonlc. Trains are running -FOUR ana
nvo hours behind time.
There is no snow so Wilkesboro. sew
rntv miles away. There is only Two
inches at Elkn. nifty miles from Wins
ton.
Tho weather here IS the coolest eN-
pe~ionced bob u-lnv years.
FOOT AND a HALF AT RALEIGH.
RAT,EIGH. a.. g.. Feb. 13-The snow.
which began falling at Saturday noon,
ceased this afternoon. 10 is the largest
snow-storm that has ever visited This
CITY since 1851
That snow was said 20 De twenty-ioW
inches deep. while the present fan IS
eighteen inches. Tho temperature Is re-
marhably cold. and the wind is very
brisk
The mercury viii drop TO zero or slight
iy below by morning, IS very probable.
breaking an previous records. Traffic ON
the railroad lines was practically sus-
pended to-day. but viii Doe resumed To-
morrow.
CONDITIONS AT CHARLOTTE
CHARLOTTE ~ &C. February 49,
charlotte i- having the coolest weather
Ono ten or fifteen years. Snow began i1ll-
eng Saturday mR'ning and continued
through The day and night. increasing
ir severity towards Sunday morning.
4, continued all day Sunday mp 90
O'Clock Sunday night Tie thermometer
go @ O'Clock sunday morning marked i'
degrees.
This temperature dl not vary during
fho mornlne. Do decreased toward night,
reaching She lowest sunday night. whom
tho mercury stood degrees above zero.
The lowest previous record at This season
Was degrees above on February ia. 1880.
Although the sun shone for rut of Zoe
lay there was mo- thaw. The sno" is hFe
feet deep iu tho drifts.
Business is practically suspended sum.
dav ANA to-day the trains ou the Souin+
arn and seab0ari have been from TWO
fo seven hours late Tonight the trains
ou both roads are annulled. There Us
four inches of ice on tine ponds
Al 1O.W tonight the thermometers reg
i.ferd from I 20 degrees below zero.
one of the worst Billiards ON record
ia raging ln the mountains iu the western
mart of the State. Al Blowing Rock the
thermometer was degrees below zero
mis- morning At LenoX it stood at
degrees below: az Winston zero was re-
ported Many towns are coallcss ana
wood famine SIS threatened
Suffering az AShcNillc.
AsHEVu.LE. ~. c.. FEB. H.-The mer-
curry reached 10 below zero here last
night the coolest ever known. but at
noon had moderated to- lo below. There is
much suffering.
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