Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-05
The Cold Wave.

Inc OOiu wave.
New York, Jan. 5.-The bitter cold
continues today wrapping the city in its
icy embrace. The temperature was two
degrees below zero at nine o'clock this
morning. There appears to be no i'm
mediate relief in sight and the poor are
suffering intensely. Retail coal dealers
in many instances have raised the price
of coal from to cents apailful, though
the wholesale prices have not been
changed. 1t is almost impossible to es-
innate the number of those who are suf-
feriug from colds, bronchitis and pneu-
mOnia. Frost bites are common. The
fire department reports that from mid
night last night until shortly after 8
o'clock this morning twenty-five fires oc-
Cured, which breaks all records for ten
hours. The fires, in most instances,
drove half clad people into the streets.
Quarantine, n. Y, Jan. 5.-The bay
is filled with floating ice and the vapor
rising from the surface makes navigation
difficult. The thermometer at 7 o'clock
was four degrees below zero.
Albany, n. Y, Jan. 5.-Since the
Albany weather bureau was established
thirty years ago, its instruments have
never reported as low temperature as
that at-9 clock this morning, at which
time the mercury registered twenty-three
and one half degrees below zero.
Rochester, n. Y, Jan. 5.-The cold
weather record Of 10 years was broken at
IL o'clock last night, when the thermo-
meter showed temperature of IL degrees
below zero.
Gloversville, n. Y. Jan. yesterday
was the coolest day on record in Fulton
county, the mercury not going above
II degrees below zero, but today promises
to be much colder. At Broadalbim the
thermometer registered As below.
Baltimore, Jan. 5.--Last night was
the coolest of the winter in Baltimore, the
thermometer dropping to fraction below
two degrees above zero. The city is
covered with three inch coating of
frozen snow.
Philadelphia, Jan. 5.-Philadelphians
are suffering, today, from the coolest
weather in four years. At 7 a. m, the
official thermometer at the local forecas-
ter's office, registered 2 degrees below
zero. There is great distress among the
poor and The free soup houses are
thronged.
Reading, Pa, Jan. 5.-At Schuylkill,
Haven the mercury registered fourteen
degrees below zero at six o'clock this
morning.
Elizabeth, N. j., Jan. To-day was
the coolest recorded in this city in forty
years. The thermometer between yester-
day noon and this morning registered as
low as 10 below zero.
Wheeling, w. Va, Jan. 5.-The ex-
IRENE cold yesterday which began Satur-
day, night, continues to send mercury
down the line until IA below zero was
recorded in this city this morning. The
suburban towns are experiencing much
lower temperature, averaging from Is to
"a below. The Ohio river is frozen from
shore to shore. A lack of proper heating
facilities in the operating room of the
Western Union Telegraph Company's
local office caused the day force
to refuse to continue work, they
claiming they were unable to perform
their duties properly. Business is being
transacted by the managerand wire chief
alone today. Since the Office was Quilted
by fire and the entire front burned out
tar paper has been used to cover the
front, and the wide cracks in the floor
permit cold and damp atmosphere from
the cellar to permeate the operating room.
Other low temperatures are reported
from Scranton, Pa, where the mercury
registered 30 below; Binghamton, n.
Y, % below; Hackensack, N. j., 80
below, and BENNINGTON, VT, 80 below.