Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-01-25
DEATH IN A COLD WAVE
Coolest Weather Known in Years
Throughout Many Sections
of the Country.
TERRIBLE SUFFERING AMONG The POOR
Trains Delayed, Fire Plugs Frozen and
General Havoc Done by Snow,
Wind and Blizzard.

Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 25.-In this city the
mercury dropped this morning from z to
10 degrees below zero, while the thermo-
meters registered from to 10 degrees
colder. The change was preceded by a
heavy fall of snow.
ooLDEsT IN TWENTY YEARS.
Cleveland, Ohio.--At the weather bureau
this morning at 8 O'Clock the mercury
registered Is degrees below, within 3119
degrees of the lowest point reached in
over twenty years. The severe weather
is causing much suffering among the
poor.
SUFFERING OF THE POOR.
Dubuque, Iowa.-This section of Iowa
is experiencing the coldest weather known
for many years. This morning it was 20
below zero, with heavy snow storm, fol-
lowed by severe cold. The poor people
are in desperate straights.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
Prairie Du CHEN, Wis.--The frozen
body of a man supposed to be Henry
Luetohe, hunter and trapper, was found
six miles north of here yesterday.
APPEAL FOR AID.
Chicago Swift to-day issued
an appeal to the big packers, coal dealers
and merchants, asking for contributions
and supplies to relieve the suffering poor.
Heavy contributions kept coming in all
day. At the board of trade several thou
sand dollars were subscribed in few
minutes. The big department stores and
dry goods merchants sent in ch ecks for
$500 and 81 900, and many smaller con.
tributions were received.
GOLD AT DENVER.
Denver.-The thermometer registered
to 10 degrees below zero here this morn
ing. The cold was severely felt in Colo
rado on account of the sudden change.
In some places the mercury fell 20 degrees.
TERRIFIC WINDS.
Kansas City, Mo.-This part of the
southwest has experienced the coldest
weather this season known for the past
twenty-four years. Terrific north winds
have generally prevailed but there has
been no snow. Great losses in cattle are
reported. The cold wave extended into
territories, where the suffering among the
unprotected must be intense. The local
weather bureau this morning reports
four degrees below zero with no pros
pect of an immediate change. At $3.50
this morning it was six degrees below
zero. The average is four below IN Kan
sas.
wAsHBURNE OBSERVATORY.
Madison, Wis.-The temperature was
25 degrees this morning. This is an
official observation from the Washburne
observatory.
FoRTY-Two BELOW.
Duluth, Minn.-The weather at Duluth
is very cold. The government thermome-
ter registers 80 below zero; at Virginia,
81 degrees below; at Tower, 40 below;
Ely 40 below, and at Two Harbors 20 be-
low are registered.
AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, Ohio.-At O'Clock this
morning many Thermometers registered
at 10 and 10 degrees below zero.
Toledo, Ohio.-The temperature this
morning is 16 below zero, the coldest
weather registered since the establish.
ment of the weather service twenty-five
years ago.
SERIOUS CASES.
Chicago.-The cold wave struck Chi
cago harder to-day than either yesterday
or the day before, going materially under
the lowest points Sunday, when the rec
ord of twenty-five years ago was broken.
At z a. m. to-day the weather service re-
ported 20 degrees below zero with no re-
lief in sight. At 8 O'Clock the tempera-
ture was exactly the same. A heavy fog
from the lake which enveloped the down
town district, made the cold doubly dan
gerous. Frosen fingers, noses and ears
were common occurrences, and numerous
cases OF serious character were reported.
FREEZING WINDS.
Minneapolis.-Thel lowest temperature
reached here last night was 30 below the
coldest in three years. There was cold
wind very difficult to face for time, but
this has subsided.
HOSPITALS FULL.
Chicago.-Only one death has been re-
ported by the police up to noon. Freda
Busch sucoumbed as result of exposure.
Ambulances, however, we're kept busy
conveying people to the hospitals with
feet and hands frozen. George Grant
was found in freight car near North
street almost dead with his feet badly
frozen. They will have to be amputated.
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