People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1893 — THE COLD WAVE. [ARTICLE]

THE COLD WAVE.

Jaek Frta'i Fewer Felt la AU Part* j»f the Warld. Sunday morning the thermometer reg-' istered 2o below zero, the coldest in over twenty years. The increased cold was felt before midnight and steam i was kept np in all the factories. Stock is suffering severely, and there is no 1 donbt that all fruit is killed. A high j wind is blowing from the southwest I and another cold night is imminent I The natural gas supply is abundant and of good quality. Lebanon, Ind., Jan. 16.—Through misunderstanding of orders between employes of the natural gas company the supply of this city, which comes through a pipe line 20 miles in length, was shut off about 11 o’clock Sunday j morning with the thermometer 15 deI Frees below zero. There was great suffering among the people. Church services were discontinued and most of the population went to bed to keep warm. The supply came on again at 3 o’clock. Evansville, Ind., Jan. 16.—The Ohio river is frozen completely over at this point and river traffic is entirely closed. This is the first time in fourteen years that the river has been frozen over, and the coldest weather for eight , years has been suffered Sunday, the thermometer registering 5 degrees below zero at 7a. m. From Newburgh, ! 12 miles above here, to Henderson. 13 below, there is a solid gorge of ice, in some places piled several feet high. Jolet, 111., Jan. 16.—The city is threatened with a coal famine.’Freight trains on all the roads have been abandoned because of the snow blockade, and the supply is hearly exhansted. 1 For nearly a week dealers have been doling out coal to their customers in small quantities, hoping to be able to replenish their stocks goon, but the outlook is jnst now very dubious. Champaign, HL. Jan. 16.—The jpercury broke its record fdr this Season Saturday night by getting down to 22 degrees below zero mark. In fact Saturday night was the coldest in this city in eight years. Saturday the coal supply of both Champaign and Urbana was exhausted, and a great many families are tsuffering on account of lack of fuel. • ■ ’ * < ’ ‘

Greensburg, Pa., Jan. 16.—A little child of David McCracken, of Log tn’s Ferry, was frozen to death Saturday. The baby was 2 months old. Mrs. McCracken, wrapping the child up, started to walk to Parnassus, a distance of 2 miles. When she arrived there the babe was frozen stiff. Mascoutah, 111., flan. 16.—The reports from St. Clair, Washington, Clinton and adjoining counties in the great wheat-growing section of southern Illinois indicate that the growing crop has been badly injured by the December drought and the exceeding cold weather pf the last two weeks. An accurate - estimate of the damage cannot be made at this time. The theri mometer registered 9 degrees belqffc zero here Sunday, the coldest in years’ Cape Charles, Va., Jan. 16.—Snow fell early Sunday morning, covering the peninsula from 11 to 14 inches deep. The mercury is at 10 degrees. It was the coldest day since 1857. Steamers between Cape Chttrles and Norfolk are making their trips with much difficulty on account of the ice. At Smith’s island ice extends a mile and a half into the ocean. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 16.—Sunday was bitterly cold. The Cumberland is frozen from bank to bank and during the day was visited by thousands looking at the unusual sight. Ponds near the city have been crowded with skaters, a scene rarely seen here. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 16.—Dispatches to the Sun from all parts of Maryland show that the mercury marks below zero in the eastern shore counties, as well as in the western and mountainous section of the state. Salisbury reports 10 degrees below zero, and in the country round about birds, fowl, and rabbits are found in large quantities frozen to death. There is much suffering among cattle on the marshes and many will die. The Wicomico and Nanticoke rivers are frozen solid for miles, and in many places the ice is banked up' 5 feet high in the lower Wicimoco. London, Jan. 16. The weather throughout Europe is intensely cold. • In Russia the mercury is reported to have fallen to 69 degrees centigrade* below zero and in Siberia to 79 degrees below zero. Wood fires are kept burning in the streets of St. Petersburg for the benefit of way■farers. Even the double windows of houses are coated. In the south of Russia the mercury indicates 45 degrees of frost. All river and canal traffic in Germany is interrupted. Navigation on the Baltic has almost ceased. The pontoon bridges on the Rhine have been haused in. In some parts • of Hungary the thermometer is 52 degrees below zero cen- . tigrade, and in Constantinople tram cars and cabs have stopped' running and snow has blocked all traffic in the suburbs. Even telegraphic communication in Turkey is generally interrupted. Many deaths from cold have been reported.