Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-02
DAMAGE AND DEATH
FOLLOW BILLIARDS. TRAIL
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gradually dying down. At 4 o'clock the
mercury registered g. Probably go half
dozen lower by daylight.
FLORIDA WEATHER
COLDEST IN YEARS
PENSACOLA, Fla, Jan. 3O-Following
a wind which attained velocity of 10
miles an hour and which had been blow
ing steadily for twelve hours at over
thirty miles came a drop in temperature
this morning of degrees and today this
section of Florida is experiencing the
coolest weather of the past two seasons.
1t is feared that the fruits and vege-
table crops may be seriously injured by
the cold weather due to the warm wea-
Their of the past few weeks causing them
to bud and sprout.
PEACH CROP is NOT
DAMAGED By COLD
GAINESVILLE. Ca, Jan. SO.-V. o.
Marshburn, j. C. Collier, r. A. Stafford
and Stafford & Howard, among the
largest peach growers here, interviewed
tonight give 1t as their opinion that no
damage will result from the extreme
cold which arrived today and which they
look to get below twenty degrees tonight.
They assert that peach buds are abb
solutely dormant in this vicinity and
therefore no injury can come unless
the trees are themselves killed.
They have made thorough inspection of
orchards and think this cold advantage
GUS rather than otherwise.
WARM WEATHER Is
COMING ONCE MORE
Yes, it's getting warmer-just little
bit warmer. May be that will make you
feel better after you have shivered
through Sunday the coolest day in Allan
ia in ten years, the thermometer having
registered IL degrees at the weather
station on Sunday morning, reaching a
maximum Of only 81 during the day.
Sunday was one OF those days when
one was we'll content to enjoy the ''tu-
multuous privacy of storm" as Emer-
son has aptly termed it. and to sit within
the radiant circle of a glowing CRATE,
reveling in warmth and lolIing out oc-
casionally upon the boisterous winds as
they chased a scrap of paper through the
air or wrestled roughly with the branches
of the trees.
One may now think complacently of the
coolest day Atlanta has had. in the past
years when the mercury crept down
or of the coolest day in January ever re-
corded by the local weather station, jan
uary II, 1856, when the thermometer reg
istered two degrees below zero.
But the main thing to be noted about
the present cold wave-for ii was gen.
uine cold wave, the mercury having fall
en- go degrees in 10 hours, from so to Is
is that Sunday was in such complete
contrast with the preceding Sunday. The
mean temperature Sunday was II de-
grees, or rs below the normal for the
day, while on the preceding Sunday
mean of 62 was reached, giving a differ
ence in average temperatures for the two
DAYS of 45 degrees. While the maximum
on Sunday was II, on the preceding Sun
day it was Y. itt..
Mercury Rises
The storm has Nabated all over the
country and high winds are no longer re-
ported At Atlanta on Monday morning
at 1870 o'clock the mercury registered
go for the first time since early on last
Friday night. having been below the freez-
ing point during all that time. The wind,
which was blowing at rate of nearly 40
miles per hour on Sunday morning-and
pretty nearly all day for that matter
was easying along at barely four miles
per hour on Monday morning. .
On Monday, after several days OF In
terrupton, the local weather station was
once more able to get reports from the
northwest which had been Isolated for
two or three days. The storm is now
central over the lower lake region and
New England, a temperature of two below
zero being reported from. Oswego, n. Y,
on Monday. and two above at Buffalo.
In the northwest, however. it is much
warmer, and a storm is coming in over
the northern Pacific coast, replacing the
cold wave. With the exception of the
northwest and Texas, where it is cloudy,
fine, clear weather prevails generally. The
northern Pacific storm is even now af-
fecting the temperature here. causing 1t
to rise, and the moderation will be much
more marked in day or two.
killing Freeze In Florida
It is said that the freeze in Florida is
the worst that has visited that state
since the severe one had killed orange
trees and other fruits and vegetables in
1899. Killing frosts extended as far south
as the twenty-eighth meridian, the mer-
curry having dropped to 26 at Tampa, "a
at Jacksonville and very nearly as low
at Jupiter Inlet.
While the mercury registered IA at
Atlanta on Monday morning, it began to
rise rapidly under the influence of the
sun, as the severe winds had ceased. Fair,
warmer weather is indicated, and the
mercury should be above 20 on Tuesday.
COOLEST WEATHER OF YEAR
SWOOPs DOWN ON PITTSBURG
PITTSBURG, Feb. 1.-The coolest
weather of the season was experienced
here today when the thermometer regis
tered degrees above zero.
A light snow is falling and the mercury
is rising. se ''
MAN CRAWLS SEVEN MILES;
HANDS AND FEET FROZEN
OMAHA; Neb., Feb. 1.-Gust Johnson a