Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — FATAL TO THE FRUITS. [ARTICLE]

FATAL TO THE FRUITS.

Country Visited by Fr®exing Cold—Drop of Fifty Deprres. According to the press dispatches the recent cold snap has been fatal tn the fruits. Throughout Illinois, Indiana, lowa and Michigan the temperature has been EcasuE-'lv low for this season. At Anna. 111., the thermometer fell to about 20 deg ees. Tho frost did great damage to fi uit and vegetab es throughout the section. The buds of the pears, cherries and ear y apples are thought tn bn killed. Stra * ber.-ies are injured some, aud there wi 1 be no peach crop whatever, thi. freeze having finished tne ruin which tue January co d snap be ran. Cairo, 111, —The temperature here has fallen several degrees below freezing. Tie damage to fruit growe sa id garJeneri in this vicinity will reach many thousand do.la-s. Mascoutah, UL —ln two da vs there has been a drop in tho temperature oi fro.n fifteen tn eighteen ’ degree . Poac ies, pears and plums are mini d. Detroit. Mich. —Dispatches Dorn various se tions of Michigan report the temperature at fa • below tho freezing point everywhere. Tne the m meter registers 10 degrees at Snult Ste. Marie, 12 at Alpena, In at Grand Haven and 2o in Detroit. Thj cold wave in Michigan is rccompanied by north we t winds and light snow in some portions. Fruit-grower will mi Ter a mo.,t universally. St. Louis, Mo.—Tho freezing weather that now prevails throu.hout this seeticn of the Southwest is unprecedented’ for the mon h or March, and s ea sing consternation among fruit and vegeta ble growers, who will be heavy therefrom. Ice an incn thick formed in this city, and us far s >ut i as Sau Angelo, Tex., it was a quart Jr of an incn thick. Muncie, Ind.—T e temperature has dropped thirty degrees, an 1 Muncie was visited by one of the sove est blizzards of thesea.on. Ono grower says that all the fruit in this section of the county has been killed, which will be a 10.-,s < f thcu amis of dollars to farmers. Wabash, Ind.—lt is believed tho fruit is all killed. Wheat wnieh had grown rank is also injured. Valparaiso, Ind.—Wheat is thought to have been killed. Burlington, la. —Easter Sunday will be memorable as the coldest in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The mercury was near zero. Many Howers with which the churches were decorated were frosted during the night. Fruit buds suffered severely. Buffalo, Wy.—Last week s blizzard, continuing seventy hours, has never been approached in severity by any other storm in this locality. Traffic ii entirely suspended, and communication by wire with the outside world has only just been restored. Snow is drifted from ten to twenty feet deep in every direction. The loss of stock is terrible. St. Paul, Minn. —The temperature reached the vicinity of six degrees below zero, which was the lowest record for the month.