Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-03-10

Lo1ueSt In vermont.
Reports concerning the coldss1
wave since 1872 are coming in as ths
citizens thaw out, and IL the oldes,
inhabitants" who keep tab on the
weather to the exclusion Of all else,
are TO be believed. spirit thermome.
ters indicated 81 below zero. One
man living In Bradford solemnly de.
clares that il WAS 10 below at his
farm, but his neia,hbors say he is an
Ananias, as the most trustworthy
Thermometer Registered 8.
Every one expected that Bernard,
which has fust-rate climate ex-
cept bout three months In th sum-
ner, when ye hev { drag round on
wheels, would orsak the record.
but Il tlidnt. because oil the ther-
mometers in the place froze up. One
man AYERS that the cold got so in
tense that many of the incandes-
cent bulbs at the village blew up.
At Bethel Rev. L. Fl. Long, pas
tor OF the Congregational Church,
went out TO look at bis Thermometer.
and couldn't find the mercury. He
was forced to take q spirit affair 10
locate the temperature at A below.
All the water pipes in his town froze
solid and no school could be kept,
because the pupils refused to sit In
a a6-below temperature.
Miss Blanche Smith OF Waterbury
tried to 60 to the Trust Manuiactur
ing Company's Office, where she
worked. She got there, but with
her whole face SO badly frozen that
DIR. G. S. Bidwell says he Is ''afraid
it will come of" In the nearby
town of Randolph large water pipe
in the Salisbury mill burst and flood
ed the building. The authorities
would not allow the main to be shut
of for fear all the pipes in the town
would freeze, so in short time the
mill took on the appearance OF an
iceberg.
+. S. Cokay of Bennington thought
it was going to be an exceptionally
cold Tuesday night, and built a rous-
ing coal fire in his sitting room stove.
Before he went to bed he placed a
bucket Of water in a chair beside the
stove. At midnight he heard an ex-
plosion. and, jumping up, found wa
ter in one-half Of the pail hot and In
the other half it vas frozen. The
contracting OF the pail threw half the
ilnid on the floor. A few moments
later the hot water heater attached
to the kitchen steve blew up and
wrecked the room. The same thing
happened in Mrs William Haw-
thorne's kitchen.
Deputy Sheriff Spafford of White
River Junction tried on Thursday
to serve fifty subpoenas in the town
OF Rochester in connection with the
Joseph Bean murder case. The
way lay over the mountains, and in
the snow and cold the Sheriff lost
his overshoes, f-oze his feet and
nearly lost his horse. At one house
he found a woman going about In
bare feet. She said she didn & mind
the weather, and was saving her
shoes. She said If she went to court
it would be in her bare feet. The
judges ouught to be able to stand it
if she could, she declared.
Trains have all been late because
of the difficulty experienced in maxi
ing steam. One engineer on the
Rutland Railroad swears that the es-
Gaping steam from his locomotive
turned into mist and then fell in a
thin sheet of milk white ice. Seve-
raj stages have been stalled in the
snow, and many stories of narrow
escapes are told. At Londonderry,
where the temperature was 80 below
on Tuesday, the stage got stuck,
and the passengers were rescued aft
er frightful experience. The Rut-
land and Woodstock line was blocked
and in Rutland it was necessary TO
let out the schools and keep the
buildings closed. Montpelier Cor
respondent New York World.