Severe Winter Storms Across the Country
During the past week the storm king has held a tight grip on all the country from the Rockies to the Atlantic Coast and Labrador. Trains have been snowed in in all sections, and the railroads have been unable to keep their tracks clear for regular traffic. Naturally the more northern roads have suffered most, but they have not been alone. The heavy storms have produced much suffering among live stock. Cattle and sheep are said to be slowly famishing, their weakened condition making it impossible for them to paw the snow from the grass on which they feed. The temperature has been unusually low even in the Southern States, and stock is suffering there as well. Floods have been threatening the Ohio valley, and some lives have been lost on land due to the heavy wind or to exhaustion and freezing. Severe gales have prevailed along the Atlantic Coast, doing some damage to shipping. On February 16 a tornado struck a passenger steamer plying between Virginia and North Carolina and sunk her, and eighteen of her passengers and crew went down with the vessel.