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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1905
Page
3
Local notices run alongside train schedules and town news. The item lists the election day appeal to vote for the west side school, while rail schedules show north and southbound departures. Readers are urged to check remnant sales and weather-related notes as well as personal notices from residents and merchants across Bryan Texas.
Yesterday J T Maloney bought Dr Ken S Read's drug business and will merge with E R Emmel forming Emmel and Maloney in Read's building. The firm will serve retail and jobbing trade with new fixtures and nearby expansion led by John M Caldwell relocating his jewelry shop. Dr Read plans to stay in Bryan and may resume medical practice. Bradford Imboden of Ft Worth and Kansas City joins J J Hill at a large New York banking institution.
A major sleet storm swept the south from Kentucky to Georgia over three days, laying a thick freezing coating that disrupted telephone and telegraph lines, halted rail and streetcar service, and left many towns with limited or no communication for two to three days. The storm also cut Atlanta and New Orleans from the national network for hours.
A severe sleet storm disrupts all major lines from Georgia to Texas and reaches the Ohio River. In Atlanta over 150 telegraph wires are cut, telephone lines fail, and railroads switch to alternate control methods. Telegraph crews work to restore service, with initial reports of 200 downed poles near Atlanta.
Memphis area reports temperature near 230 degrees with heavy snow and sleet hampering streetcars and rail service. Telegraph and telephone wires are down across much of the South with New Orleans and Georgia partially reachable and many routes delayed for hours.
The Weather Bureau reports continued cold throughout much of the United States with zero readings down to Oklahoma. Valentine Nebraska records 32 below zero as a snow and sleet storm moves northeast from the lower Mississippi valley toward New England. Chattanooga ends up ice bound with streetcar service halted and no church services. New York Harbor sees dense ice packs hindering vessel movement into and out of the port.
Glen Fails reports in Northwestern New York on February 6 that fifteen inches of snow have fallen and trolley traffic is suspended as travel is impeded.
Cambridge Maryland February 6 report that five men drowned in Hooper s Straits while trying to reach shore from an ice bound oyster vessel with the men failing to reach safety in the icy water and surf.
Bedford Indiana February 6 Justice Mc Lachlin released Frank Evans and held Elmer Browning to the grand jury in the preliminary hearing for the murder of Miss Sarah Schaefer.
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