Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-08
SEVERE COLD IN THE EAST
NEW YORK STATE HAS COOLEST
SNAP IN TWENTY YEARS.
Zero All Traffic Delayed Sew, raj
land Sta es- Fifty Below at Orange,

New York, Jan. 6.-When the gov
eminent thermometer registered below
zero at O'Clock this morning all Jan
uiary cold records since 1875, when 6
below as registered, We're beaten.
Thermometers in various outlying dis
tricts went several degrees lower and
in the suberbs from s to ~ below zero
was reached.
All traffic was delayed more or less.
Mails from the west and the east were
from six to 10 hours late. Snow was
not to blame for this so much as the
inability of the locomotives to keep up
steam under the great outside cold pres
sure.
The severe weather, too, was the
cause of an unusual number of fires.
Between 2:30 and $3.50 a. m. ID alarms
were sent in. All were small fires.
The coolest weather in many years
was reported throughout the Adiron-
dack region last night. At Saranac
lake it was 40 below. For the past
four nights the thermometer has reg
istered not less than ~ below any
I points in northern New York. An av-
erage temperature of 80 below zero
Prevailed throughout the centarl and
western part of the state. At several
points north of Utica last night the
mercury went to 80 below.
Reports from all over New England
indicate intense cold.
| At Salem, Mass, the harbor was
| frozen over for the first time in 15
years.
From New Hampshire, Keene report
ed 32 degrees below zero, the lowest
in Is years, while at other places the
mercury fell to 45 below.
| Woods River Junction, R. L., re-
ported 36 below.
Thermometers in Orange, Mass,
burst at 80 below zero.
At Tully, Mass, the bulbs went
down to A below.
William Pattison was frozen to
death in the snow at North Webster.
For the first time in 10 years the
eastern and western passages of Mar
ragansett bay are closed by ice.
| The ice has choked up the warves
along the water front at Newport, r.
L., and soldiers walked from Fort
Cradle, on Dutch Island, to the west
ferry over the ice.
| Thermometers in different parts of
Ruthland, VT, registered from 40 to
A below zero. The Ruthland public
schools were closed owing to the cold
weather
| New Haven, Conn, Jan. 6-This is
the coolest weather in the last five
years in Connecticut, the official
thermometer registering six below.
The lowest in the state is at Danbury
! -26 below.
Traffic was delayed on account of
the difficulty of making steam.
Philadelphia, Jan. 10 fiji ia1
| figures show this to be the coolest snap
this city has experienced since 1875.
The weather bureau thermometer reg
listers 52 dergees below, while in the
suburbs the mercury ranges from to
| 10 below.
The Delaware river below this city
is frozen over from shore to shore for
tlo hisp piiuS Ill youlsJ ihtoioiciAh6
seriously with the movement Of
shipping.
Wilkebarre, Pa. Jan. 1.-THE tenn
perature here is the severest in many
years in this section of the state.
Coal mining seriously hampered and,
while the demand for coal is great,
New York companies have been unable
for week to make deliveries.
Wilmington, Dela., Jan. 1.-THE
cold wave extended over Delaware with
practically no variation. The Their
mometer ranged from 2 to 8 below
zero. In this city many large in
dustrial establishments suffered from
the bursting of pipes and many were
compelled to shut down.
Baltimore, Jan. 1.-THE mercury in
the thermometer dropped as low SD two
degrees above zero. In the surburps
the mercury went to six below. AT
Hagerstown weather records for twenty
years were broken when the murcury
reached 26 below zero. Sharpsburg
was the co dest place in the state heard
from, the thermometers registering ~
below. At Annapolis the harbor IS
frozen far out into the bay.
Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. From
many points in Ohio reports received
indicate II temperature ranging from
10 to 20 below zero.
Russian Navy Prepares.
Moscow, Jan. 5.-The Russian vol