The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-09

hoWeVeI, dI some pOlnCS ike lam
pa, where only weather bureau TEN.
peratures, taken from the tops of high
buildings, are given, it is going tc
give the tree level temperatures as
reported to US by men who were or
the ground.
One man who was in Tampa or
Friday and Saturday and Sunday
stated that the temperature on Satur.
day morning before sunup was %
That of Sunday morning was but 6
fraction higher. The Tampa Times
of Saturday evening said:
High winds, which may have help.
ed to save the crops, cut off commu.
nication with many sections, and the
extent of the damage wrought coulC
not be ascertained early today.
"At $3.50 o'clock this morning the
thermometer at Jacksonville register.
ed 16 degrees, and Tampa unofficial
ly' reported 26. Among points cut
off from wire communication this
morning were Orlando, Ocala, Dayto.
ma, DeLand and Tallahassee"
Inc Miami temperature.
The Miami Metropolis of Saturday
evening in its report of the weather
conditions there said:
"All records for low temperatures
at the local station of the weather
bureau were broken by the dip last
night. The official minimum tenn
perature was 27 degrees, which was
two degrees less than the previous
record. This temperature was Sc
cured by the official instrument on
the top of the government building
which, owing to it's elevated location
was not situated advantageously to
secure particularly low reading
From reports received at the weather
STATIC this morning FROM reliable
sources temperatures in the vicinity
of Miami reached minimums ranging
from % to "a degrees. Temperatures
in this low range were reported from
Cocoanut Grove, Allapattah, Biscayne
Heights and even in some of the wes-
tern part of the city"
At Plant City.
Plant City is but few miles west
of Tampa. The Courier of that place
in its issue of Tuesday, Feb. 9th, in
it's articles describing the cold, said:
"Florida has been gripped since Fri
day by the most severe cold wave in
many years-in fact, no such temper
atures have been recorded in this i'm
mediate section since 1909, and it came
near the devastating freeze of 1894
and '95, when many millions were lost
in two nights.
"The present cold was preceded by
a heavy rain and high orth-to-north-
west winds last Thursday night, and
the mercury dropped from 50 on FRI
day to "a degrees above zero Satur-
day morning. Sunday morning
brought a further drop, % 1-2 being
the lowest recorded by the govern
ment station"
Conditions at Orlando.
Next to Crescent City, Orlando is.
with the possible exception Of AroaG;a,
the second largest citrus shipping
point in Florida.
Mr.. A. J. Nye, a heavy orange
shipper at that place is reported as
making the statement that a large
number of trees in the Orlando sec
tion are showing trunks with split
bark, which means dead trees. How
ever this is only hearsay.. The Or
lando Reporter-Star, one of the most
accurate, carefully edited papers in
Florida, in discussing conditions there
says:
"The extent of the damage done by
the freezing weather last night in diff
ficult to arrive at, for the reason that
opinions differ and several days will
be required to ascertain for certain
if the citrus crop on the trees was
frozen, as some claim. or if it escaped,
as others assert. 1t is noticeable
that the oldest growers are the most
outimistic. At o'clock last evening
the temperature was 80, and it fell n
degree an hour, on an average until
midnight. Some claim that the mer-
curry descended as low as 81. A. D.
Zangen reported the lowest register
and stated that all his nursery stock
was killed The official register was
% 1-2."
Lakeland's Report.
The Lakeland Evening Telegram of
Saturday says:
"Last night Florida was visited by
the coldest weather the State has ex-
perienced in twelve years, the gov
ernment thermometer in the City
Park registering a minimum Of "a
degrees. Today the temperature is
slowly rising, and it is not thought it
will go below % tonight. x y.
1t is too early yet to figure on the
damage to the citrus fruit industry.
Much of the fruit on the trees, it is
thought, is frozen, but in many pro-
tected groves the fruit is not injured.
Many large growers were prepared
for the cold with heating apparatus,
and the fires were lighted in these
last night, therby saving the fruit in