Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — FROZEN FISH. [ARTICLE]

FROZEN FISH.

Myriads of Fisli in the Gull of Mexico Killed by the ltecent Cold Weather. [New Orleans special.] Mr. A. 0. Wilson, a well-known civil engineer, has recently arrived here from Florida, where he has been engaged in .landsurveying. He states that during the recent cold snap, while he was making a voyage from Tampa to Cedar Keys, the schooner in which he had embarked was wrecked off Cedar Keys the Bth of January. All hands escaped with their lives, but suffered greatly from the cold. The salt water froze on the reef in the Gulf of Mexico upon which the vessel struck, and great numbers of fish, chiefly trout,' sheephead, and redlish, were killed by the cold and floated on the water, covering its surface for miles. Inquiries among fishermen and others elicited the fact that during the same cold spell fish were killed on the Louisiana coast and were then floating by the thousands from the Rigoleta to points far to the eastward.