The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-25
MILLIONS DAMAGE BY FROST
% HOLE ~ THE MIDDLE WEST
STRGCk m 4 BLIGHT.



ST LOUIS. April 3a.--The Government
weather observer at -. LOUIS DELAYED
hi. report until 10 O'Clock this evening
when h. predicted fair and slightly
warmer weather hsrs Monday and fair
and war->~r tuesday.
He reports that the temperature Dropped
o. % degrees in ~. Louis between and !
and 10 and n O'Clock this morning. thu
loves, ever recorded here At this season.
Unoncial reports are that all fruits
and vegetables in the vicinity Of -. Louis
we're entirely destroyed and wheat BADLY
damaged.
special dispatches tonight show that
the extent Of the damage excseas last
nj sht's alarming estimates. There will
~ practically no fruit crop in the middle
Vest
Frost which covered q vast AREA In the
middle West last night nipped all budding
fruits and flowers. injured Vegetables
and many shade trees the leaves of which
are dropping. Nurserymen express little
NOlR LOT NnH 49, OANAA@aoss NNSNAN 49,
we're kept burning.
To-day the storm area was extended
% I o,,isiana's northern boundary. This
~as the coolest day IN any years In Pine
R,ra. Ark, the thermOmessr there drop
p,nr 90 70 degrees tonight and growing
colder sleet and snow began falling
there At O'Clock this afternoon.
II showed heavily all day throughout
northern and central Arkansas. Ten
p...e~. Missouri. western Kentucky. I'LL
ro,. and Indiana and CONTINUES tonight
in thnae states 10 10 growing colder in
w.ssern Kentucky and Teanessee. taking
Axsy hopes fox fruits.
Ten inches of snow fell IN the lower OHIO
Valley from 10 O'Clock last night 20 2
this afternoon. turning to slush and rain.
lcicIes q foot long and ten inches OF snow
are reported ~ Louisville. FROST last
n, On, will I've followed nv heavier frost
tonight At Paducah. w. and other
POINTS along the Ohio River. iniurlnG
much wheat which has begun to head
IN bottom lands
The damage TO trees an far south ~
Tennessee 70 the greatest ever known.
Indications point 10 frOss tonight IN
Oklahoma. where snow prevailed all last
night and to-day.
The Springfield. Mo. weather bureau
predicts Pressing weather tonight
throughout the great osark Mountain
fruit region oe southwest Missouri and
northwest Arkansas
The apple crop in this section 10
toaal Dues.H SAID Dr. A. ,. Burrtll Of the
Univsrsity of Illinois at Champaign to-
niRht. Yesterday I thought the abun-
dance OF the crop would mean that half
would ~ sawed. Affer q tour I am COM
PEELED 20 revise my viswa
we have had frosea this late before. bIIi
the early vegetation caused tine great
damage. growing at least three weeks
ahead Of any previous time In my knowl-
sdas A. q result the freeze caught
IL a. the Worst time. Al the small
fruit. seem 20 have rsrssAed too The
orchard owners have had fires. hut they
have been fruitIeas. Prof Blair and other
university men IN s0uthsrn IlllnOis send
word that they are lighting hard with
smudRes. but their reports bring little
hop~ I greatly fear that the Him Ois
ir,m crop 10 practically destroyed
Memphis. Tenn. reports a heavy fall %
snow there At intervals throughout the
dAy With temperature within q fraction
II a degree Of the freeEi0G creating grave |
fears for the fruit crop In that region.
SECT and snow arc reported In northern
Mississippi. TeuneaRse Arkansas and
k-ntuoky A. more cOtton IN above
ground than ever before 81 tkis s~asOn
u the year the damage 10 the tender
Young plant 10 eKpectesi tO be tr~Den-
dou.
Astronomer IrI r. Hicks " 81 Louis
says HAllsy's comets arrival gave N
ApriI weather in March and now are
sunerinR the reaction. and that there will
10 tendency to frost after rains until
MAY 10. Other astronomers say the
",m-I is too FAR away 20 AFFECT our weather
I~TIAVAP,sI.Is. April -. The cold wave
1T the last three days. which illuminated /
All night in fre@zinG weather. - believed I.
10 have completed the destruCt GA u the |
small fruits throughOus The STATE and to |
have don~ incslculable damage To all
vegetation
When the sun casBe ouf this morUing !
grsp- vines looked ss " they had been !
-.urched early flowers we-c killsd and
smell fruits were blighted beyond |
rors For three days the temperature |
10 b~en hOVering around tho fr~ezine |
o. m ard IL only needed Ihe blasts of !
a. xht 70 complete me destruction.
- cold weather vas general over the :
sac AID reports tonight show that !
o" art -soap@d ds'nage. fruit growers /
" - 20 save tho blossoms and hundreds I
n hen burned straw under Trees and I
f"s".'~t 10 other eNp edisl,s. but their ,
e 80 g-ie m vGin
. lie sTsrea. with seasonsble weather. !
0u' ou' other bloom. hut the crop |
. rAiuced 10 on~-'hird OF one-fourth |,
-" normal. while cherries. peaches. |
.. - piums strswberries and other /
-~- fruits are Geasra,ly killed. Hun |
ore. - gareeDs planted in March wi!l
IA %. - replanted
20 'r'ht crops IN normal year, in
Fi.f' sf~ ~stimafcd 20 be worth about \
"'"' Or g.1OO.0OO. and u - safe to
o. mr. re lo~s will bs fally es.cOD00O !
90 vear THIS NAV - increased by I
g. 1-"r' danage 10 young trees where
10 .H,iH - has been killed
JUstPH. Mich. April - Late re- I
rom nearly every part Of the fruit !
o. southwestern Michigan show that |
o.. HrBs n r1IinNn The tracing tenn