FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
April 10-12, 1894 were miserable days for Marylanders. It was cold; the high in Baltimore on the 10th was 40, still a record-low high for the date. A coastal storm with 60 mph winds battered ships. Two coastal schooners went aground in New Jersey, drowning 20 seamen. Two days of sleet and snow piled up 5 inches of slush in the city. The Sun reported: “The barn and wagon shed of Samuel Crocker, Chestnut Ridge … collapsed. Several hogs were killed by the falling timber.”
(SUN PHOTO: Kenneth K. Lam, April 7, 2003)