Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-12-29
DOWN BELOW ZERO.
Coolest Weather Known for Years
in Various Places.
Great Suffering in the Western Part OF
acknowledgements of Cattle Freez-
ing-RaIlway Trains BIOckaded
by Deep Snow.
BITING BLASTS.


KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 27.-The
severest weather that has touched e
southwest in years prevailed Monday.
From the Arbuckle mountains in
southwestern Indian territory to the
Missouri river is one glare of ice and
snow, over which a 2O-mile an hour
gale is blowing. As outlined in these
dispatches, the sudden change in the
temperature caught the people of the
poorer regions of Kansas exposed to
the ravages of the storm.
The snow in Seward county, Kan, is
banked so high over the country roads
that communication is impossible, and
the wires being all down it is not
possible to learn from there the
exact condition. Many families in
the interior are known to be
without food to last twenty-four
hours, besides being insuffieiently clad
to withstand much of this sort of
weather There are at least dozen
families, embracing 100 members,
known to be in this condition. Stevens,
Morton, Meade, Finney and Hamilton
counties are also suffering. In Finney
all the poorer classes are in sod houses
and are safe from suffering from cold,
but there is a shortage of food and
what there is is high priced.
From Lalned to Coolidge the Santa
Fe road is blocked and passenger
trains are standing in country drifts.
There is no effort being made to extri-
cate the freight trains, which on the
Southern Kansas, central branch Union
Pacific and Santa Fe are standing on
sidetracks by the dozen, and it is
estimated that 5000 cattle in cars en-
route will freeze to death before they
can be moved. Agents on one line are
ordered to let the animals out and herd
them wherever pen can be found.
Robert Phillips, a cattle-driver for a
southern Kansas ranchman, reached
here with trainload of cattle for the
stock yards and he was frozen almost
stiff. He will not recover.
Wichita has had only two trains,
both local, all day and much suffering
is reported from the nearby country.
A special from there says: Down in
the Indian territory a guide found four
Cherokee blanket Indians frozen to
their ponies. which were pushing their
way through the snow just across the
line from Caldwell"
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-Sunday night and
Monday the weather was the coolest
of The season. 1t started III Sunday
afternoon. The extreme point was
reached at $50 Monday morning, when
the thermometer at the Auditorium
tower, where Sergt Frankenfeld takes
observations, marked 10 degrees below
zero. 1t only remained there a short
time, however, when it slowly started
upward, reaching zero at 10 o'clock,
stopping there a few hours before drop
ping down to 1 degrees below.
Texas, Georgia, Mississippi Arkan-
sas and Tennessee are getting a taste
OF cold weather, too. The tempera-
ture was only Is degrees above at
Vicksburg. Arkansas has a tempera-
ture of - degrees above zero, Texas
20 degrees, and Georgia - degrees.
The cold wave started away
up at Qu'Appelle in the north
west territory and swept south
to the Gull of Mexico. Minnedosa and
Winnipeg had % degrees below, St.
Paul IA degrees below, and Duluth IA
degrees below. There was rise in
the temperature Monday throughout
the west and northwest of 10 to Is de-
grees, thus showing that the severe
cold is moderating.
PRESTON, Ia, Dec. 27.-The thermom-
eter showed "a below zero Monday
morning.
BOONE, Ia, Dec. 27.-Monday morn
ing was intensely cold the mercury
going down to IS degrees below zero,
at which point it stood ali day.
DAVENPORT, Ia, Dee 27.-In exposed
places the mercury dropped to II de-
grees below early Monday morning.
Persons are crossing the Mississippi on
foot and the ice bridge will hold teams.
MILWAUKEE, Dec 27-The tempera-
ture here early Monday morning
ranged from degrees TO 10 degrees be-
low zero.
BEILAIRE, o., Dec 27-The Ohio
river at this place IS frozen over for the
first time since 1885.