Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-01-26

there was day 20 below; one in Janu-
airy, 1879, when 1t got as low as 1S, and
January 1884 and 1888, had one each
eqnally as chilling. Sunday was
the next epoch maker and the mer-
curry at z o'clock a. m. showed
lG below Necessarily, the cold caused
untold suffering 1t was bitter Sun
day for the coalless poor, and they are
legion in Chicago. Church-goers were
comfoltab in heated sanctuarles, but
the unfortunate in the thousands Of
fireless attics got another swish from
the flood of misfortune. Many grave
will get its fill from the blast. The sta
ton houses were filed with men who
begged for places to sleep. They could
have been filled twice over had 1t been
possible to receive all the applicants.
Hundreds came in with frozen ears and
faces, piteously asking for chance to
get warm.
Ice Six Feet Thick.
After three winters that scarcely de-
served the name the Northwest is now
experiencing one OF the old-fashioned
kind. The present January has beaten
the record for intense and sustained
cold weather and there is no prospect OF
a change. For four years the new year
has found the ground clear Of snow at
st. Paul, and every lake and stream
open. That city has been proudly
claiming location in the center OF
the banana belt" This winter got its
work In early, coming in November
with steady snow falls that will lie till
spring. The mercury went below zero
in the same month and has been above
that mark only at rare intervals since.
On Christmas Day it was 25 below,
about the same on New Years and has
maintained a steady gait ever since. At
st. Vincent and Minnedosa 40 below has
been reached and the cold has been
nearly as severe all over the western
and northwestern part OF the State. A
cube of ice six feet thick was cut from
Vadnais Lake. 1t. is the heaviest ice
seen since the famous block which
formed the corner stone of the Ice Pal
ace in 1885,
In Omaha the thermometer registered
8 below and in the northwestern part OF
the State % below. The snow in the
eastern part of the State has been there
since Nov. 26. Kansas is also suffering
extremely from the cold but in the
western part snow covers the ground
and wheat is we'll protected.
In Des Moines, at o'clock in the
morning the thermometer registered 1S
degrees below, and at Sioux City the
weather has been intensely cold for
week. The mercury has ranged from 4
to IL degrees below zero. The Missouri,
Big Sioux and Floyd Rivers are frozen
to greater depth than for many years.
At Cincinnati everything Is Uied up
by the cold weather. The thermometer
waS ID degrees below zero and in
some places on the hill-tops it was
1S below The Ohio River is frozen
tight from bank to bank, postponing
any threatened devastation by the ice
gorge. For the first time since 1877,
pedestrians are walking across the
river on the ice, the five bridges being
deserted except by vehicles and cars.
Many motormen and cable gripmen
were compelled to desert their posts
More relief is promised the poorer
classes. Eighteen car loads of coal
$50 tons, arrived for distribution ut cost
price.
Froze the Mercury Solid.
Wisconsin is also fast in the grasp OF
the ice king. Dispatches from all parts
Of the State report the coolest weather
for years. In Milwaukee it was IA de.
grees below, but that wasn't marker
to the weather up north. At Sparta the
mercury 'froze solid at 40 below; al
Whitehall ii was 45 below; Lacrosse, SO.
AZ; Neenah. 2S; Watertown, 80
X Kaukauna, 35. The Winnebago indiana
Falls are suffering terribly. Marine
men say the lake will be frozen solit
from Grand Haveu to Milwaukee il thii
naf fAAN inn