Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-11
THE VERY COLDESTDAY,
Chicago Sees the Lowest Temperature
. Of Many Years.
RACING HORSES IN THE COLD.
The Poor Brutes Covered With
Frost and Steaming as They
Run Under Whip and Spur Over
a Frozen Track-Very Cold in
New York-Severe Weather
ell Over the Country.

CHICAGO. January 10.-This was the
coldest day that Chicago has known Tor
many year.
The wind came bowling of the prairies
and when il struck the tall buildings Ia the
CITY IL was torn and twisted into gusts
which blew from all points at the same
time.
The mercury at sunrise was 10 degrees
below zero and all the morning il slid gent
ly downward and touched II below st 10
o'clock Then ID went 10 ) above and az
that point began 10 retire from business
At 7to-right 10 was below ana appar-
emily on the toboggan slide.
AT two race tracks the sport" and
gambling went on as usual, though the AL
legged races were run Ia the coldeSt weather
ever witnessed by an aggregation OF blue
nosed gamblers in this world.
The usual crowds were on hand, but kept
as much as possible under cover. They
would run TO the fence 10 see the wrong
horse 90 under the wire In the lead and
then rush back into the betting ring ana
plunC e wildly on Tom and Jerry, who
ruled as hot favorites throughout the day.
The thiuly clad Jockeys stuck gamely 10
their WORK and suffered froSt-bltten eX-
tremities. The tracks were as hard as
flint and the finish Of each race made more
noise than a barrel of buckshot being
n
The horses at the conclusion or each
event were white with frost and were had
in clouds OF steam which rose from their
heaving sides as they were led rway. The
scenes OF brutality 10 horseflesh will never
be forgotten even by the tough gamblers
present
Down town business was, IL anything.
accelerated by the low temperature. Men
and women hustled through the streets AS
tR..H,- Hoo fIsNA
and il was lonesome day for the police
men on crossings, for they couldn't tell
anybody 20 move on, and when they had 10
see man they found him somewhere OF
the street
No casualties have been reported. al
though the police stations and the Office OF
the county agent are overrun with appli-
cants for relief
New YORK, January l0.-This has been
a day Of shiyers, and the pedestrian could
almost hear his bones creak as ne trod the
snow. covered ground, with the wind driving
the cold into his marrow.
Starting to-day with temperature OF 2B
degrees AZ o a. m, the mercury has xraces
fullys dropped until twelve hours later it>-
was 10 degrees above, and at 10 o'clock II
was 4 degrees with no indications OF
break. Snow has commenced falling AGAIN.
Up I'm the State they ere having even
colder weather. In the Mohawk Valley
IL has been the most severe Of this winter.
In Buffalo the minimum temperature this
morning was six degrees below zero.
At Corning the day has been the coldest
OF the season. degrees below zero 10. light.
From Dover. Del, comes the report OF
genuine western blizzard. Three Inches OF
snow fell last night and the high winds
banked the snow so badly that travel Is al
most at a standstill.
Trains have been running two and three
hours late all day, but this evening there
are two passenger aud two freight trains
showed In.
At Stanton, Va, the mercury registered
two degrees above zero, the coldest weather
OF the season. Massachusetts also has use
for warm wave, the thermometer ~ Bos-
ton registering four degrees above.
From Pennsylvania come reports or ez-
treme cold POttsville says that the se-
verest of winter weather Is being expert
enced throughout tho county. At O'CLOCK
the thermometer registered three degrees
above.
East Franklin colllery, at Tremont.own-
ed by the Reading Co, was obliged 10 sus-
pend operations because OF the extreme
cold wave. Other collieries II is reported,
will suspend work temporarily.
The cOldest place as far as heard from
20 day is Linesay, Ont, with tempera-
ture Of 25 degrees below zero