The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-04
NORTH HAS SPELL
Of ZERO WEATHER
Heavy Shows in the East Block
Traffic
BLIZZARD RAGES ON COAST
In New York Numerous Exhaustions
From Exposure Are Treated-The
Thermometer IS Below In
Northern Maine.
BLIZZARD RAGtS ON COAST

Boston, January 3-With the mercury
lowering around the zero mark in this
city, and reaching an extreme of 30 de-
grees below in northern Maine, with
foot of snow. piling up at exposed points
in huge drifts that delayed railroad trains
caused the abandonment of street railroad
schedules, and in many cases interfered
with the street lighting systems, New
England slowly emerged from the
clutches of the widest blizzard that has
swept this part of the country since the
memorable storm of November l. 1898.
The gale, accompanied by a binding
fall of snow. swept the coast from New
port, r. L., to East Port Maine, until
noon today. when it moved eastward and
tonight was raging with almost unpre-
cedented violence over the maritime pro-
vinces. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
suffered the most.
Double patrols of life savers are watch
| ing the coast tonight as they have for
| the past thirty hours. Only one ship
wreck Is known to have occurred, that Of
the schooner Belle J. Neal, on Allerton
Bar, but late tonight a womans body
was washed ashore at Nantasket, and it
is feared that another vessel was wrecked
during the storm.
/ Since last night five deaths from ex-
posture have occurred in this city. Word
came from Nantucket tonight that the
harbor of Siasconsett was frozen for the
first time in several years. The supply
of provisions is low and much anxiety
is felt by the islanders.
Biting Cold in Now York.
New York, January s.-Clear skies and
biting cold succeeded the snow storm
which ragged all last night and yesterday,
resulting in a total fall of from eight to
ten inches, the heaviest of the season.
While there was little interruption of
street car traffic today. owing to the
constant use of snow ploughs during the
continuance of the storm, the service on
railroads entering the city was badly
crippled,
Many cases of frost bite and exhaus-
! lion from exposure were treated at the
! hospitals. One man was found uncon-
scious and badly frost bitten in a. snow
drift in Second avenue.
Peter Johnson. address unknown, was
found dead in the snow near the Rich
mend County club golf links on Staten Is
| land.
Mrs. Francis Jeanette, IS years of age,
may die as the result of exposure to the
cold She was found near her home IN
! Staten Island with hands and face frozen.
The thermometer at II p. m. stood at q
above zero, the average temperature for
the day being above.
From points In various sections of New
| York state, come reports OF heavy snow
fall and intensely cold weather. Railroad
| traffic is much impeded and much diff
| Guilty is being experienced in operating
| trolley lines.
Three Boys Freeze to Death.
Bad Axe, Mich, January S.-Three
boys, about 10 years of age two named
Loundberry and the third named Dutch
er. were frozen to death on the bay at
| Bay Post during last nights terrific
storm. The boys were fishermen's sons
and had gone out to their parents fish
shanties on the ice and they became
lost in the binding snow