Evening journal., 1904-04-21
RECOVERING
FROM COLD WAVE
Great Suffering and Loss In
Many States.
SNOW AND RECORD BREAKING COLD

In Middle and Eastern States Traffic Is
Impsded by Snowdrifts-The South
and West Also Visited by Frisid
Blast, Which Ruins Fruit Crop.
New York, April 21.--City and coun-
try are slowly emerging from period
Of midwinteE weather Of record break
ing proportions. Freezing April tenn
peratures in this city caused great dis
comfort, but il was Of little conse-
quence in comparison with conditions
outside. From the lakes to the Caro-
llnns and from Maine to the Dakotas
the unreasonable cold and in many
places heavy snowfalls caused great
suffering and loss.
Reports from the state show blizzard
conditions generally.
A foot of snow fell in Ogdensburg
and its vicinity. Trains reached there
from one to two hours late because Of
the drifts. Such a snowstorm in April
had not been known there 70 the oldest
inhabitant. In Saratoga and the lower
Adirondack region a driving snow
storm prevailed, and the discomfort Of
the farmers, already thirty days be-
hind with their work because OF unsea-
sonable weather, was without parallel.
Roads were blocked, delivery OF ru-
raj mails was stopped, and railroad
traffic was hampered seriously by the
six inches Of snow which fell and
drlfted In the neighborhood of Lyons,
n. Y. 1t was the worst storm of the
year there. The Mohawk valley es-
capped with about three inches Of snow,
and Elmlra ana the entire Chemung
valley had light visitation.
Almost Down to Zero.
In Auburn a foot of snow fell, with
a fierce nor'wester piling the fakes
into drifts There was good sleighing
I'm Syracuse and its vicinity, and thou
sands went out to enjoy the April nov
city in their cutters. Rochester was in
the grasp OF a blizzard for twenty-four
hours. Five inches of snow fell, and
snowplows were In use on the rail-
ways 1t was only Is degrees above
zero there yesterday morning, with
Penn Yam showing and Sodus 4. Wa
tertown and practically all the cities
and towns in northern New York
shared in these blizzard conditions.
Northern New Hampshire was buried
in snowdrifts. Sixteen inches of snow
fell In Littleton, twenty in Lancaster
and Groveton. High northerly winds
sent the temperature TO the zero point
in central and northern Vermont and
piled the snow in huge drifts. The
fall was a foot on the level, with seven
inches in Mortified.
With the lamentations Of fruit and
vegetable growers in all the rural sec
tions arose the plant Of the tobacco
growers in the Connecticut valley
, The loss they suffered will run up into
the thousands.
Great Damage TO Fruit.
The coldest April weather in ter
years prevailed in Hagerstown, Nd
! Small streams were frozen over anC
! wagons crossed on the ice. The mer
curry dropped to 20 in that section, anC
great damage was done to fruit anG
vegetable crops. On the Maryland anS
the Delaware peninsula II is feared TIN
peach crop has suffered irreparable in
jury.
Maryland was not the only southern
: state which felt the nip. In Charlotte
! N. c., the snowstorm was so heav.
!, that trolley traffic was impeded serl
ously, and steam railroad traffic shareI
> in delay unprecedented for April.
Six inches of snow fell In st. Louis
and from fve to seven inches cover th
ground for a radius of $50 miles frou
! that city. The heaviest April snowfall
a in thirty years delayed traffic on tn
a railroads around Evansville, Ind, an
j. at Rockport the snowfall was fou
: inches. The storm prevailed generall
J. over southern Indiana. Fruit wa
g damaged seriously In western Ker
! lucky, where there was an unpreec
dented snowfall Of six inches.