Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-13
Coolest Weather in Years
Is Report From All Points
Special Dispatch to The Star.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
KEYSER, w. Va, January 13.-Within
the past eighteen hours the temperature
has dropped about SO degrees, ranging
from 10 to 30 degrees below zero, break
ing all records. The lowest temperature
reported is in the South Branch and
Patterson Creek valleys. Orchardists of
the eastern panhandle fruit belt fear Sc
rious damage to peaches and other stone
fruits, and that new wood as well as
buds are killed. RABBITS are starving
and peeling young trees. In the winter
of 1880 the record In this territory was
| "a degrees below zero. Game and song
birds are freezing in ccantless numbers.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN. Md. January 10
This section Of the state is in the throes
| of the coolest weather in many years,
! thermometers at some points in Wash
ington county registering as low as LIZ
degrees below zero this morning. In
the business part Of Hagerstown the
| thermometers ranged from four to six
below. while in the suburbs the average
was from eight to twelve. At Funks-
town, Edgemont and Highfield Their
mometers showed a temperature Of from
fourteen to sixteen below, being the
ground is covered with snow and the
sleighing is fine. AS a result OF the con-
tinued cold weather the charity organ
| izations have their hands full looking
after the needy poor.
Smashed Way Through Ice.
RICHMOND. Va, January 13.-The
big Old Dominion liner Brandon smashed
its way through endless Ice foes in
prri tnO fyyn
hours late. The steel-prowed city tug
dashed to and fro in vain, trying to
keep the harbor open. No vessels are
now moving.
The official temperature, 81 degrees at
8 am, was the lowest since 1899. and
Richmond shudders under such unac-
customed cold.
WINCHESTER, Va, January 10
Northern Virginia is buried under foot
of snow. With the thermometer Il de-
grees below zero early today this sec
in fifteen years.
WARSAW, Va, January 13.-The
northern neck OF Virginia is completely
ice bound. All passage along the river
has closed. The thermometer this morn
ing at. 5 o'clock registered degrees
above zero. Merchants are running
short of groceries. and every one is
raging for a railroad.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
STANTON. Va. January 1s.--The
thermometer registered 2 degrees below
zero here today. j. L. Beard, cattle
man, was frozen to death while In the
fields.
Suffering in New York.
NEW YORK, January 13.-This was the
coolest day New York has experienced in
e.ght years. From five degrees above
zero at midnight, the mercury climbed
steadily down. until at $50 am. it was
three below. Then q rise set in and at
am. the temperature was one below,
with indications of gradual rise through
out the day
Dry. cracking cold and the absence of
wind minimized the suffering of those
forced out doors, but the mum cipal lodg-
ing houses and charity organizations
were damned with the homeless and des-
titute.
official thermometers recorded early this
morning temperature as low as seven
below. Both the North and East river are
damned with ice, Whlch ueidyeu Terry
traffic.
have been taken to the hospitals. among
them three nremen. VINO ,o were almost NOS
Der coats while fighting lumber-yard
fire in Brooklyn.
In the Adirondacks the temperatures
ranged from ID to 46 degrees below zero,
and at points along the Hudson river the
mercury was down as low as IL below.
Severe In New England.
BOSTON, January 13.-Although the
Official temperature at the lowest touched
7 below zero, the weather authorities de-
clared today that the crest of the west
ern cold wave was still to come. and that
tomorrow morning probably would see
lower readings.
Mortified, VT, beat out Greenvile
Me-. by two degrees in the race for the
lowest official mark in New England, tie
former reporting % degrees below ard
the latter 20 degrees below zero at am.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. January L. =
Zero weather was experienced in Phil
adelphia today for the first time IN eight
years. At 6 am. the temperature touch
ed the zero mark and remained there un-
til O'Clock, when 1t rose slightly.
| throughout the state and In New Jel sey
and Delaware the temperature was the
| lowest In years, the mercury gCiag to
II and Is degrees below zero IN the
mountains of Pennsylvania.
At Pottsville man wos found frozen
stiff in front of his home, evidently hav-
| ing been overcome by the cold while on
| his way home.
A number Of anthracite collieries had
| to suspend operations for the day be-
cause Of exposed machinery becoming
| clogged with ice.
Heavy Snow In South.
ATLANTA. Ca. January 13.-snow
| covers the greater part Of Georgia and
! the southern and eastern portion of the