Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-25
THE WEATHER.

cast OF the weather bureau tonight
lends rs far east as the Ohio valley
and southwark to Texas, where the
temperature has fallen from 20 to 40
degrees in the past twenty-iOur
hours. 1t is below freezing in Ten ues.
see and Central Texas. 1t is below
zero in OHIO, India ma, Illinois and
Missouri, anu 20 degrees below zero
over the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Light local SHOWS are reported from
southern New England and southwest
| ward over the Ohio val ley, Tennessee
| aud northern Texas. The weather Ia
generally fair in the northwest and
South Atlantic states.
The Indications are that the cold
wave will extend eastward and south
ward over the Atlantic and Gulf COASTS
Monday. The temperature will fall
to near zero from Virginia northwnrd,
| and frstziag weather Will extend
| southwsrd TO the Gulf and South
Atlantic states.
COLD IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.--Aocording to
| the records OF the weather bureau, til ia
was the coolest day in Chicago In
| twenty-five yeaTs. AT NO time since
the C.icago station has been estab-
| lished has there been 80 low a maxi
mum temperature recorded. 1t was
steady coli. There was a variation OF
but four degrees in the twelve hours
from pm. AT O'Clock tonight the
! signal service was reported IL
below. In the street 1t WAS several
degrees below that.
The suiferings among the poorer
class is Intense, anu u nu mber OF CASES
OF restitution were reported to the
police. AT Grand Crossing thirty
three families with eighty-six children
were found In their poorly protected
hovels unable 10 care for themselves.
Ear, noses and HAMS we're whitened
anu benumbed by the cold. They were
cared Tor and ply sicians summoned to
render relief.
In South Chicago five families were
found actually freezlug TO death.
These were also removed by the poll e
to warmer quarters, where pr0per
treatment was given them. A num-
Der OF other cases were found In other
parts of the city.
To gid tho poor on account OF ex-
treme severity OF the weather the
l tuAhtJ Soaf f'p
loads OF coal TO destitute families. Tn B
Is the first time such delivery has
been made on Sunday. Food anu
clothing wsre also given out.
Up to ii O'Clock tonight there were
between fifteen and twenty cases
reported to the police OF people being
found in the streets suffering from
frozen hands, feet, ears auI noses. OF
these two or three are in serious
condition. Only one death from cold
was reported, that OF child.
By midnight the thermometer regis
tered IL degrees below, having dropped
five degrees since O'clock.
The cold is made more intense, as 1t
ia accompanied by brisk, sharp wind.
IN MINNESOTA.
TT. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 24.-Tha
coluest weather OF the winter thus far
was experienced in this section last
away down In the minus figures, from
20 to 80 degrees below, Thermometers
varying in different parts OF the city.
Tonight at O'Clock the weather
bureaus official record in this city
gave is below zero, while other North
western stations reported rs follows:
Helena, IA below; Huron, 20 below,
and Duluth, Is below.
specials from Rochester, Minn., say
that today was the coolest for many
years, the thermometer Mt noon indi.
eating 20 below, and the severe cold
was intensified by 25-mile gale from
the northwest. The mercury Is falling
steadily.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
HAMILTON, NO., Jan. 24.-Park
Sterling, a negro coal miner, was
frozen 10 death near here last night.
He fell by the roadside while drunk,
and WAS dead when found this morn.
Ing.
LEXINGTON, No., Jan. 24.-Lasg
night was tue cUldest experienced
mere this wiuter. Martha Lacey, an
aged negro woman who had no home,
was frozsn to death In the basement OF
u uilspidated apd unused house, where
abe had gone for shelter with her two
little children.
THE WINTER IN TEXAS.
AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. ga cold
wave struck this section todsy and hRi
been Increasing in velocity until to-
night, when n driZEling rain began,
which Ia freezing as II falls, coveIinl
everything with lee. Reports from
stock ranges Ia the west of the state
cay that much apprehension or sever,
loss is felt, as many herus are withou
shelter. A eight snow was reported
this afternoon to the north of the city
, Mexican EaFthq uatgex.
CITY CT MEXICO, Jan. 2A.-Earth
quskes continue In the state OF onxaci
: and that city has been shaken severed,
by the respiratory shocks. 5cieBtisl
! believe volcano is forming among til
hills, ana the continued seismic dls
: turbances have excited alarm In rev
/ eral islnets, while on the Pacific coas
(. the ocean Ia In a continual com M tiou
D cauaed by submarine tx 'l'pi ms senr
Ing huge waves on the shore and terri
1 lying fishermen.