The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-04-22

done by the winas. though &c d feared
shat In some localities young crops have
been stunted or killed by the frost and
cold At many points. panlcuiarliy in
eastern Kentucky Eastern Tennessee
and Virginia. the temperature WIS low
or than known IN q decade az This tlmo
cf the year Reports were received
by the local weather bureau today from
nfteon cities or towns IN Kentucky and
la most Of them the minimum temper
ature for iast night ranged between 30
and ai degrees The maximum Tor the
entire stat was as degrees, az Eariiug
toni ln western Kentucky. The cold
cst section was the blue grass district
In and around Lexington. This is the
best fruit growing part OF the state and
here 81 IS feared, there was damage
BY frost TO not only fruit. gut TO vege-
table and tobacco crops. Ia the noun
tains of Kentucky the snowfall was I,
broken. and U,is afternoon "A Inches OF
snow were reported from London nn9
afjddtasboro. An the streams there are
hankfull. ana general preparations are
benlR made to yacate the homes 10 the
valleys before thaws ana expected Hoods
There has been much suffering nmon
tho poer mountaincers. Around Louis
VILE there has been no damage of con
sequence. Frost Is again predicted Tor
tonight Reports from Bristol, Va, this
afternoon were that a dangerous food
was raging about eight miles east NJ
that place. forty foot bridge on the
Norfork aud western railroad was wash
ed away near Wytheville Va. and for
eight or ten miles the track Is from two
70 six feet under water. Many washouts
were reported and several trains were
onnulied. At last reports snow was stu
falling at Bristol
The Big Sandy, Twelve Pole, Guyandot.
Tug and New rivers are at flood, and
many tons Of piles have been swept away
I'm West Virginia over fO0t Of snow
has iallen In the last s6 hours. Similar
reports comefrom nearly all places heari
fom IN the upper Ohio valley.
Near Blackburg. 81 c.. a town on the
south Carolina and Georgia extension
railroad the track was uudulated by the
high waters and today combination
freight and passenger train ran into the
washout
One tralnman was badly hurt and an
other 9. missing. The water In all
the streams about Blackbure rs higher
than known IN 20 years.
Throughout the entire southeast the
telegraph and telephone services are bad
ly crippled
At Atlanta, whore the high winds have
been prevailing for days, the maximum
was reached this morning. when the
velocity recorded was dfty-six miles an
hour The mercury has fallen near.y
forty degrees and indications are that
small gardening has suffered
Pittsburg, Pa, April 20.--A wide
spread and isastrous food has in
undated ali the low lands in western
Pennsylvania, eastern ohio and north
west Virginia. The streams both great
and small are still rising. Pittsburg
Is the center OF the storm stricken dis
trlct. and the effects OF the flood are
probably worse in It's immediate yicin-
ity Rain has been falling In and for
many miles around Pittsburg FOR sixty
hours, and all precipitation records are
broken Parker's landing, up fhe A"~-
cheney, reports nearly four incnes. and
Greensboro. on the Monongahela river,
over three inches. Down the Ohio river
four inches fell al Wood Junction and
about three and one-half inches at
Beaver.
West and north Of Pittsburg heavy
falls OF wet snow are reported. Up
the Allegheney valley reports come o.
two feet Of snow on the level at many
places. This had the effect Of breaking
down telegraph wires and cripplng
railroad service. Malls are either de-
layed for hours or not arriving az
all. Railroad officials cannot estimate
the cost OF repairs but say It win be
heavier than ever before IN the history
Of the railroads running into Pittsburs.
Tracks are torn M, bridges weakened
ana telegraph poles are down IN AN di-
rectons. Six land slides have occurred
on the Panhandle between this city
and steubenville. two Of them very SER
ious Yhe Chartres branch is complet
ly submerged and no trains can reach
Washington Pa, over this lthe.
AT Jones Ferry, on the south side, a
huge boulder fen on the Panhandle