Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-12
THE COLD SNAP.
The Mercury Out of Sight Saturday Night
and Sunday-Several Men Frozen to
Death.

CHICAGO, Jan. IL.
Reports from the west and northwest indi-
cate no abatement Of the cold snap. The
mercury stood at l5 to "a below zero through
out Illinois Sunday and Sunday night. Sew
eral cases OF freezing are reported. At Elgin,
ILL.,, Irwin Undcrhill, on his way home from
party, lost his wsy and was found frozen
stiff Sunday. His horse WAS stalled in snow
bank some distance from him. At Dundee,
Erwin Barker was found frozen in farm
yard. At Burlington, Ia, John Lang left a
barber shop late saturday night, for home
and was found dead Sunday morning, not
quarter of a mile from where he started. A
dispatch from Denver saws that two men
were frozen to death near the western Kansas
line, and il is feared that the loss of life in
the mountains was considerable.
CHICAGO, Jan IL.
The mercury dropped TO l5 degrees be-
low zero during the night, and at 5 o'clock
monday morning registered II degrees be-
low with very little wind stirring. The sig
nal service at the same hour reported the
temperature at Fargo to be IA degrees be-
low, at ST. Paul 20 degrees below, and at
Des Moines, ~ degrees below. The rail-
ways continue to encounter great difficulties
in moving trains. Eastern and southern
trains due here twenty -four hours ago have
not yet arrived.
The cold weather continues but MANY of
the railroads are being cleared and are re-
sLming operations The east bound train
from St. Louis to Cincinnati, on the Ohio &
Mississippi road, was caught in drift west
of Centralia early Friday morning. The
DRIFT WAS two miles long and several feet
high. The train WAS not rescued uii Sstur-
day afternoon. This passengers suffered a
good deal, but the road manageI 20 got coffee
and some provisions to them. Two men
were frozen while digging at the drift.
The Sha~neeto~n u Beardstown branch
of the Ohio Mississippi road has been prac
tically abandoned The north bound freight
train was crossed near Louisville Friday
The brakeman walked two miles in the teeth
of the gale to telegraph the station where
met the southwark passenger train. This
train tried to get to the freight, Intending to
push it back to Flora but became stalled be-
fore it reached the freight Fifteen or twenty
passengers passed the night in the drift and
nearly perished. Two cars of hogs, part of
the blocked part of the freight train, were
found frozen stiff Saturday morning.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. IL.
The minimum temperature this morning
was below zero. Dispatches to the Times
from towns throughout East Tennessee
North Georgia and North Alabama say that
last night was colder than ever known.
GALVESTON, Texas, Jan. IL.
The weather here and throughout Texas
continued raw and cold Reports from the
interior indicate that the loss of stock will
prove far greater than at first supposed.
Another victim of Fridays blizzard was found
off Bolivian Point in his little sloop frozen to
death. The body was identified as that
of Henry Dodne, hunter by occupation.
When the body was discovered it was en-
cased in a solid sheet of ice several inches in
thickness. This makes the fourth person
frozen to death in Galveston bay.