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Terrible Effects oi the Cold Snap.The mischief which a few degrees oftemperature, more or can produce, vitt11is tf urfiiliv exemplified by the it delli-fceuce which the telegraph ‘brings daily A full of Jo degrees in the thermometer ^ vithiu a few hour* has caused ternhlv 1 destructive tires all over the countn\ v produced by overheating, and involving u loss of millions of dollars; lias broken a rails and wheel* and wrecked numerous v trains, with a fearful loss of life; has **f- 1 tWtuulIy Bitipped the business of twolarge cities, New York and iioston; has summarily suppressed the transmission { of moils and merchandise all over the Eastern Scutes: has destroys] thousand* of dollars’ worth of steamboat and bulge J property at Memphis, arid will probably do the siime thing at St. Louis before long, as the ice is gurgl'd both above and below that city; has caused great expense, and, in some instances, loss of life, by the explosion of boilers and kitchen ranges; has cut * IT, il is rejMtried, the Michigan fruit prospects; and bus resulted in a multitude of minor casualties and accidents all over the country, not to mention the extreme suffering incident to poverty and exposure. During the spring, Hummer, and fad, allthe disastrous elements of those Bcasojis seem to have been let loose, mid neu winter add* its dismal catalogue of horrors, caused bv the ice, tie* snow, the x frost, and tiit* cold — Ili(f(tlt;/u Trihiiite* '
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Plymouth Marshall County Republican
Plymouth, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 09, 1873
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