Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — Severe Cold. [ARTICLE]

Severe Cold.

For several days the railway trains havebeen detained by snow, but are again running on time. The pilots of the engines have been “weatherboarded” to keep the snow from caking on the underworks. The cold weather is very severe on the machinery and tracks. Some of the freight trains yesterday came into the city with their under works covered with ice——looking as i’s they had just arrived from Spitsbergen or some other locality In a high latitude. The cold of the night befure had been intense, and ice was even formed on the sides of some of the boilers. On the Madison &> iUdianapolis Road near Franklin, an engirie drawing a hog train was used up by the cold and could not proceed. Those having the train and hogs in charge suffered extremely. All the. railroad employees with whom w« have conversed complain of the bitter cold they have experience during the past thirtysix or forty-eight hours.— ttidianapolis Journal, 2414. A writer in the Valley Tan, the Gen. tile paper printed at Salt Lake City, says: “There are thousands of women in Utah Territory, between the ages of fourteen and twenty, who would gladly walk bare-footed all around the world to find some place to hide ironi these hoary-heoded bishops, elders, and priests,”