| Show IL ALL RECORDS HAVE BEEN BROKEN Warm and Cold Waves Leave Desolation Behind Them KILLING FROSTS GENERAL FREEZING WEATHER IX1 XEV YORK AND NEW ENGLAND I Great Damage to the Peach Industrj of Michigan Xcw Torlis Grape Growers Will Lose 1 000000 Ohio Wisconsin Minnesota aiichisnn aid Illinois Are Among the Sufferers I Washington May 13The weather Bureau furnishes the following bulletin The unusually warm weather that prevailed pre-vailed last week throughout Missouri and the upper Mississippi valleys and lower lake region the middle Atlantic states ard New England has been followed by a wave of extremely low temperature I throughout the same districts the extremes I ex-tremes of both low and high temperature I exceeding in many cases the record of any I previous year for the first half of laThe la-The warm wave began on Wednesday the Sth in the Missouri valley with maximum max-imum temperatures ranging from 90 to lOt decrees and moved eastward reaching the middle Atlantic states and New England Eng-land on Friday z The cool wave set in the northwest on Friday night Frosts erereported Saturday night day morning a far south a I 1s and Missouri They extended tp the Atlantic t coast by this morning producing light coat tis mornng and frosts as far south a Chattanooga Lynchburg Killing frosts occurred on Lchbur KUing Sunday morning In Jsebraaka Iowa and Michigan and this morning in Michigan Ohio and West Virginia Warnings of these frosts wer cent out by the weather bureau on the day preceding I pre-ceding their occurence to all the districts affected Snows occurred along Lake Michigan In vf ogsr The storm which 1 developed suddenly during the last twentyfour hours is now centerod in the Ohio valley and will probably cause a still further fall of temperature a It moves eastward producing freezing weather in the lower lake region and iiorthem portion of New York and New f England EnSlaJA A Gloomy Outlook Chicago May 12Prof Moore of the United States weather bureau here today said The prospect is the greatest dam age will result to the peach growers of Michigan The fine weither of the last few weeks has brought u rees along t a point where they wH b not susceptible ble l cold The cold wave is bound directly di-rectly for Michigan too and will stir up some northwest winds that will make matters worse Bud In New Yorlc New York May 13 Reports from many r sections of the state indicate that last I nights frost did an immense amount of damage to growing vegetables crops and fruit Telegrams from Dunkirk state the entire grape crop of the Chautauqua grape belt was ruined The loss is estimated mated at 1500000 in this belt C mate Chautauqua grape belt extends through Erie county westward t Erie Jt occupies 3 strip from six to eight miles ia width along the southern shores of Lake Erie Tho number of acres bearing grapes last year was 36000 This year 35000 acres would have been bearing The vines were loaded with blossom buds last evening and today from one end of the c belt to the other the vineyards are nothing noth-ing but Blackened ruins and have thoap pearonce of having been visited by fire Pearce six hundred cars were loaded from the belt last season At Westfield the vines were entirely cut down pme growers will plough up their vineyards and return to the old style of general farming Brockton generally known a the center of the Chautauqua grape belt is i in mourning today Nothing is raised there but grape and the frost last night cut them all down Jerry Hlckman the millionaire grover and wine manufacturer says the loss to the belt by reason of the destruction done to the grapes will reach at least J2000000 His gpt he estimates at 5250000 At Fredonia nothing of the grape crop can b saved Various Other Places ittsburg May 13 Eastern Ohio western west-ern Pennsylvania and western Virginia were visited last night by heavy white frost The mercury dropped to 3 degrees de-grees and In exposed places Ice formed a quarter of an Inch thick Garden truck and grapes were nipped Oshkosh Wis May lJAn inch of snow foil here today and the thermometer is at freezing point Great damage has been itG done to early fruit and gardens Minneapolis May 13Last nights frost was severe in Minnesota and South Dakota Dako-ta Snow fell at Ely Tower and Iron E range points Garden truck and fall fruits suffered badly and grain in a lesser degree Wheat is reported damaged slightly strawberries and other small fruits in western Wisconsin were frozen solid Minnesota Minn May 13A howling bUzard passed over the city last night and the snow is three to four inches deep I today All gardens and many fruit and shade trees are ruined Detroit Mich May 13 Western Michigan igan dispatches received today indicate that the fruit was not injured to any extent ex-tent by the frost last night In the orhern peninsular and northern parts of the rtate however heavy snow fell with a freezng wind from northeast badly damaging the vegetables Cleveland 0 May Telegrams from numerous points throughout northern Ohio show that the heavy frost last night was most disastrous in its effects upon irult and early vegetables The damage is enormous Green Bay WIs May 13A severe blizzard bliz-zard prevailed here from midnight to 9 a m today Three inches of snow fell accompanied ac-companied by wind blowing forty miles an hour Great damage resulted to fruit market gardens and growing grains Cincinnati 0 May 13Dispatches from northwestern Ohio report heavy damages by frost The mercury fell four degrees below freezing point Milwaukee May 13A fierce norther is Iwukee sweeping Lake Michigan today A dis patcn from Sheboygan says the lifesaving path of the ing crew has gone to the rescue te scow Quickstep which was being driven before the gale and In danger of going ashore Snow Is reported all through northern Wisconsin Chicago May 13 Chicago shivered In a tempeature of 40 decrees today with a heavy gale blowing off the lake and with promise of colder weather tonight I 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