The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-06
A COLD WAVE.
Sweeps Over Some or the Eastern
Cities.
The Thermometer Behaving Very
Badly.
The Ohio Senatorship-Simcn Cam
trOn-O other Interesting Items.
The Cold Wave.

The Cold Wave.
Cleveland, 5.-Coldest weather il
years: the thermometer reported to in
dicate as low IS IA below zero in SOM
| places.
Chicago. 5-The thermometer at
o'clock this morning dropped to {
point twenty-seven below zero
which taken with the cold RECORD
yesterday makes it the most severe
showing in the way of extreme
weather known in many years. Al
s o'clock, the thermometer was still
twenty-four. At the same hour
Kansas City reported twenty-fOuI
below, st. Paul twenty, Omaha
twenty-four Dubuque twenty-five
Des Moines twenty-four and Keo-
kuk twenty-five The effect in this
CITY has been in a measure to par
TALLY paralyZe the ordinary
course of bosiness. AS Is Gus
tOmary at such an unusually
cold spell, fire alarms have been
more numerous than usual, and the
night proved to be one of terror to
members of he department. Three
fires after midnight served to keep
practically the entire force on duty,
and the service required of them
under the circumstances was such
as to tax their endurance to the
fullest extent. At q o'clock this
morning fire was discovered in
Beau Revage flat, one of the most
imposing residence structures in the
south division of the city. ltspread
with rapidity, which caused a num-
Der of families to seek the street in
their night clothes. Trouble was ex-
perienced in working the engines
On account o. the cold. No lives
were lost, the escaping occupants
taking refuge in the Leland Hotel
adjoining the Turned building.
The thermometer here at ii to
night registered 10 below, indicating
that the weather has moderated
only slightly. as com pared with LIST
night. Reports from points west
and northwest, however. indicate
that the cold wave has in measure
spent itself.
Des Moines, 5.-To-EIght it was
below zero, with light snow falling
There was Il change of .wenty-four
degrees in a like number Of hours
On the Mississippi river bridge at
Rock Island, at 6 q. N, it was 80
below; at O'Clock this evening it
was 20 below.
Chicago, 5.-Inter-Ocean specials
from Southern Illinois and Missouri
Indicate that peach trees have been
injured, in some instances killed. |
Western railway lines are not yet |
heard from.
Cincinnati, 5.-The weather |
slightly during the day, |
)ut the mercury is falling tonight, |
md stands at below at ii o'clock. |
)ne man was taken to the hospital |
md will probably lose his feet. He
lad been frozen in a shed where he |
,ook shelter last night. There were |
| great many cases Of frozen ears, |
poses and fingers. Business is much |
neglected.
Madison, 5.-22 below this morn
ng.
Elkhard, Ind So below this
no abatement this even
ng. Coolest ever known.
New Albany, Ind, 5.-The cold
est day in thirty five years % be-
ow; at noon 10 below; at S this
evening u below. Fruit growers |
Jay the peach crop is destroyed. |
st. Paul, 5.-The weather has
greatly, from twenty be-
ow this morning to zero at nine to.
hight.
Indianapolis, 5.-Thermometer at
even this am, six below. Ali trains
Ire delayed, and business is par
tally paralyzed. Several car drivers
lad their hands and feet frozen.
Kansas City, 5. - The mercury
his morning STOOD 25 degrees below,
he coolest day in years. It has
,een ascertained that a stock train
'earirg 800 mul4s, most of which
re weanlings, en- route from Aus
in, Tex, was blockaded at Lees
summit. twenty miles from here, on
he Missouri Pacific. The mules
we're exposed to the most intense
old on the open prairie for sixty
lours. and not being acclimated,
yer 100 animals have died The
theirs were cared for to-day.
Wilmington, g. The heaviest
now storm ia many years; cold
lortherly winds; snow covers the
found to the depth of two inches
nd is still falling.
Quebec, ) The first mails from
country parishes since the great
torn, which set in on the 1st inst,
cached town to day. The bags were
arried in on snow shoes. Such a
complete stoppage of communities
ion in the country has not been
,nown for twenty years past
Montreal, 5.-The food here is
apidly subsiding.
Acquitted.
Co., Nox- |