Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-01-18
20 BELOW AT THURMONT.
Crest of Cold Wave Reaches
This Locality Sunday 18th.

Crest of Cold Wave Reaches
This Locality Sunday 14th.
The cold weather of the past two weeks
held firm grip on the eastern portion of
the country, and on Sunday morning,
January 18th, thermometers in this and
many other places recorded unpreceden-
ted low temperatures.
Saturday morning was very cold, some
thermometers being as low as 16 below
zero. During the day the mercury rose
to about the zero mark, but by nine p.
m. the readings were eight below.
Sunday morning one thermometer in
this place recorded 20 below zero, others,
according to location, were slightly high
er. This no doubt is about as cold as
ever experienced in this locality. There
was no wind during Saturday and Sun
day. The severe cold sent the frost deep
into the ground and almost every family
having water pipes in their homes have
experienced trouble and in some instances
sustained damage, owing to pipes burst
ing and water flooding the house.
There is about six inches of snow on
the ground, and birds and rabbits have
suffered very much for want of food.
! Mr.. Sam'l Long and Rev. Shontz while
coming from Rocky Ridge to Thurmont
Sunday afternoon saw large number of
crows in the road ahead of them, and on
arriving where the crows were, found
they were feeding on rabbit which they
had evidently found and killed.
Following we give reports of the cold
at places throughout the State:
Baltimore, Jan. ID. Breaking all rec
ords for continuous cold save those es-
tablished in the great blizzard of 1899,
the temperature recorded at the Weather
Bureau today dropped to 2 degrees below
zero, and remained there for three hours.
Residents in the suburbs reported tenn
peratures as low as % degrees below the
zero mark.
Washington, Jan. lathe national
capital shivered today in the grasp of a
cold wave which drove the mercury at
the Weather Bureau down to l3 degrees
below zero, or within two degrees of the
record temperature, Is below, on Febru-
airy IL. 1899.
Frederick, Md, Jan Ia. The coolest
weather experienced in Frederick since
1885, when the first records were made,
struck here today when the official Their
mometer of the Weather Bureau marked
q degrees below zero. This is degrees
lower than yesterday, when all previous
cold weather records were broken.
Creagerstown, Md, Jan. Ia. AT eight
this morning the thermometer registered
exactly % degrees below zero. 1t is said
to be the lowest temperature known in
This locality. Horses attached to sleighs
were white with frost, as were also the
occupants of the sleighs-a sight rarely
seen here.
Elicott City, Md, Jan. H-Howard
county is now experiencing the coolest
weather since 1888. This morning at
o'clock the thermometer here registered
10 degrees below zero. At Highland, 10
miles from here, II below was recorded.
Ice 10 inches thick is being harvested.
Port Deposit, Md, Jan. l4.-The ther-
mometer on the Pennsylvania Railroad
bridge at Perryville this morning regis
tered 20 below zero. At Port Deposit
the range was from to 10 below.
During the sermon at the Methodist
Episcopal Church tonight the two inch
feed pipe to the motor of the pipe organ
burst and the water ran down into the
auditorium. The congregation resolved
itself into salvage corps and removed
the $500 carpet, while axes were used to
cut holes through two floors to save the
plaster. The damage has not yet been
estimated.
Hagerstown, Md, Jan. lathe in
tensely cold weather of the past few
days continued here today. In parts of
the county the thermometer did not get
above 10 below zero.
AZ Tic CiieWoNHe WcdIHeI SldIloIi, ~.
Paul Oswald, observer, this morning
the temperature dropped to rs below re
no. At noon today the Government Their.
mometer registered II degrees below the
zero mark
Harrisonburg, Va, Jan. 14-The Gov
eminent thermometer at o'clock this
morning showed rs degrees below zero,
the lowest on record in this part of the
valley. Half dozen ranges exploded in
the community and several persons had
narrow escapes.
FORD'S GRAND OPERA HOUSE.