Show COLD WAVE EAST AND SOUTH Johnson City Tenn reports mmiii nine inches of snow which by Its weight has damaged large e tracts of timber Vreexng I temperature was reported yesterday as far south as a line run ning east and west through the I center of the cotton belt I Snow fell and Ice I formed generally Thursday night not only III northern Louisiana but In the southern sections as well Some damage lo fruits and I vegetables Is reported Nine inches of sleet and snow coy ered the streets of New York yesterday and WOO men battled with It in Man i I hattati Three thousand more worked In Brooklyn Tralllc was partially paralyzed The heaviest snowstorm In many years act in yesterday and continued last night over northern Texas Okla homa and Indian Territory Many places repoit six Inches of snow and much suffering to live stock Tho worst feared by the fruit growers of eastern Tennessee and northern Georgia was realized In the I cold wave of Thursday night Reports show that Ihe mercury dropped to 21 I und every thing Is frozen over that entire section Over COOO men and boys residing be tween Shamokln and Mount Curmel Pa and employees at the collieries are Idle J owing to the snow blockade In a number of tho mountain passes traversed by the trains snow drifted from live to fifteen feet On many of the suburban lines In New Jersey the trolley wlIcH broke un der the t weight of their coaling of sleet and ICt lslIda yesUnlay tying up several lines completelv A number of horses were killed by contact with live wires No fatalities from the cold ire reported |