Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-05
BITTER COLO WEATHER
Reported From All Points
North of Here.
MANY RECORDS BROKEN
BUSINESS INTERFERED WITH In
MANY PLACES.
Trains Tied Up and Outdoor Work at
q Standstill-Coal Mines
Badly Hampered.

registered were beaten. Thermometers III
various outlying parts of the city went sew
eral degrees lowe, and In the SUBURBS from
8 to IL below zero was reported. Al
o'clock the official thermometer had gone
up to below and the absence of winds
was some relief
The intense cold interfered considerably
with all outdoor occupations and delayed
all regular and suburban trains from a
few minutes to several hours The effects
of the heavy snow had been overcome, but
it was difficult to keep up steam, and many
local trains had to be abandoned on ac-
count of disabled engines.
Four deaths from freezing and two cases
expected to end in like manner were re-
ported
The lumber-Iaden schooner Charles K.
Buckley, from Charleston. was cut through
by ice In the harbor today and became
waterlogged All board were saved
The vessel Is not seriously damaged
Traffic Seriously Impeded.
Traffic on land and water was in serious
trouble. Transatlantic liners arrived loon-
Ing like specter ships. Both the East and
North rivers were barely navigable. while
the Harlem river, for the first time ineight
years, was impossible above MacComo
dam bridge at 10th street.
their course by the drift fce. and every
ounce Of power in them was required to
reach their slips The boats which land
at the Battery had to turn battering rams
to part the ice IN their slips.
Mails from the west and east are from
six to ten hours late. Snow vas not to
blame for this so much as the inability OF
the locomotives to keep steam up under
the great outside cold pressure.
The severe weather. too, was the cause
of unusual number of fires. Between
2:30 and $50 am. thirteen alarms were
sent in. These were all for small fires but
two alarms were sounded in several in
stances, as a precautionary measure.
All trains entering the Grand Central de-
pot were marked Indefinitely late on the
bulletin boards today, and delays of from
one to three hours were frequent on all
through trains coming into Jersey City and
Hoboken. Switches were frozen or showed
under. interfering with the handling of
trains and delaying the departures also.
BUFFALO, n. Y. January 5.-The ther-
mometer at the weather bureau registered
four degrees below zero at am. today.
Railroad traffic was still slow, trains
irving from one to four hours late.
At Jamestown the temperature was re-
ported by the weather bureau thrty-oue
degrees below zero.
Colder in New England.
BOSTON, January 5.-Reports from all
over New England indicated more intense
cold than on yesterday AT Salem. Mass,
the harbor was frozen over for the fist
time in fifteen years. From New Hanp-
shire, Keene reported thirty-two degrees
below zero the lowest in fifteen years,
while at other places the mercury fell to
forty-three below. Woods River Junction.
R. L reported the lowest temperature ever
known, thirty-six below zero. Trains every
where were from two to six hours late to-
day.
Very Cold In Connecticut.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. January 5.-This
was the coldest morning IN the last five
years in Connecticut. according to the
measurements of the weather bureau sta
ton. From midnight until this morning
the official thermometer reading in this city
was 6 below zero. Inland points reported
much lower temperatures. the lowest among
them being Danbury, % below.
Traffic on all divisions on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford was again de-
iayed today on account of the difficulty of
making steam.
Work Stopped at Coal Mines.
WILKESBARRE, Pa. January 1.-The
temperature today is the severest in many
years In this section of the state. At Glen
Summit the thermometer was 2S below
zero. at Hillside 25 degrees below, at Noun
tain Top 20. while in this city II recorded
as low as II below. heavy, damp fog
accompanies the cold Coal mining is seri-
ously hampered, and while the demand for
coal is great and many companies have
been unable for q week to make deliveries
the mines cannot produce the fuel fast
enough with steam and water pipes frozen
and breakers too cold for men to work in
them.
AMSTERDAM, N. Y, January 5.-The
average temperature in this city this MORN
ing IS and % degrees below zero The
electric system between this city and Gloy-
ersville and Schenectady is tied up. Trains
on the New York Central railroad are from
three to five hours late
36 Below at Fishkin.
FIsHKILL LANDING. N. Y, January s.
AT Fishkill at o'clock today the ther-
mometer registered 3e below zero. Along
the Newburg bay section of the Hudson
river it registered variously from % to 80
degrees below.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, January 5-Tbe
z o'clock this morning. the coolest weather
here since February 10, $780, when the
Thermometer dropped to "a degrees below
TROY. N Y. January 5-The cod this
morning reached the lowest point in the
history or Troy and vicinity. In exposed
places In the city and suburbs II was SO de-
grees below and at other points %.
ALBANY N Y, January 5.-Twenty-five
degrees below zero. the lowest temperature
In twenty-eight years. was recorded here
today.
WILMINGTON. Del, January 5.-The
cold wave extends over Delaware with
practically no variation. Last night the
Thermometer fell to and degrees below
zero in exposed places. At s o'clock his
morning IT was only degrees above in this
city and rose very slowly later in the morn
ing
The Christiana river is blocked with ice
and traffic Is impeded. Railroad trains are
late. In this city many large Industrial es-
tabEshments suffered from bursting pipes
and were compelled 20 shut down.
Coolest Since 1875 in PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, January 5.-Official
figures show this TO be the coldest January
day this city has experienced since 1875