The Mena weekly star., 1897-01-27
THE COLD SPELL.
intense Suffering Among the Poorer
 Classes in St. Louis.
THE COLD WAVE IN OHIO.
Schools Dismissed at Toledo-Many Frozen Ears and Noses in Chicago Farmers Gratified Intense
 Cold at Many Points.

oAs IIOlls. Jdtl. Sp.-- \ He COlu wave which reached here Saturday night continues to-day and the mercury re- mains close to zero with high wind, but no snow. The suffering among poorer classes of people is intense and last night over 800 unfortunates were sheltered at the police stations. Re- ports received to-day show the cold wave extends south to Texas and west to the Rocky mountains. Tn western Missouri the mercury dropped 60 de- grees in 24 hours and dispatches re- ceived from all parts of the state indi- cate that great damage has been done to the wheat crop and that much Of the early budding fruit has been killed. Throughout Oklahoma and | northern Texas the temperature has fallen from 80 to 70 degrees in the past 36 hours and in the latter section light snow has fallen. In western Texas the storm has reached the sever ity of q blizzard, and distress in the cattle ranges is feared. Throughout southern Illinois and western Ten nessee the weather is the coldest of the season. Reports from Kansas are to the effect that the storm and cold wave is the most severe of the past two years. notwithstanding the intense cold railroad traffic is but slightly de- layed on western and southern rail roads.
 The Cold Ware in Ohio.
 CINCINNATI, jan. 26.--The cold wave struck Cincinnati in 2ll it's fury sum day night, and the thermometer fell 1 steadily until it reached nine degrees below zero, it's lowest mark at the weather bureau ct about five o'clock this morning. About eight o'clock the thermometer began to rise little. 1 Sunday at seven ?. m t stood at 1T above, and fell to zero at nine D. m. There is much suffering among the poor in tha suburbs. Adam Feiss aged l0, of Danlap street was the first victim of the extreme cold weather. He was brought to the hos pital this morning wlth both hands frozen. At ten (. p. f5e thermometer registered two degrees below zero. There is great su1feripg at Toledo where gas is used foc fuel, the pressure i having been reduced to q minimum, and all the schools were dismissed at an early hour. 1t being impossible to | keep the buildings warm.
 Ssany Fro1srl Tara and Noses in Chicago
 CHrcAG0. Jan. 26. -Seventv-six pco- l pie have been more or less frozen, ae- cordiug to police and other reports, since the cold wave came Saturday night mp to ten o'clock this morning. From two below zero early on Satur- day evening the thermometer began to drop rapidly until at seven o'clock this morning the weather bureau reported it had gone down i 10 t2 below Prof. 6sarriott. of the /, weather bureau, said this morning that .he intense cold wonld moderate slight ly during the next l2 hours, but that no relief was in sight at present. In 1 almost every drugstore in the city the proprietors and clerks are kept busy thawing out frozen ears and noses. The motorlnen, conductors, street car drivers and teamsters were the worst sufferers from the cold. The cable roads experienced considerable difh- culty in running.
 Farmers Gratified.
 OMAHA, Neb Jan. 26 The tempera- ture is one degree colder here than it was yesterday, being 13 below, which is the coldest at this point in two years. The ice is ten inches thick and the ice companies are working shifts night and day. Applications for relief are being made in great numbers by the destitute poor and all are being met The cold snap is especially gratifying to the farmers, who say it will save much of the corn that the warm and wet weather was threatening to spoil. Railway trains are all late because of the difficulty in making steam. Throughout this part of the northwest it is two to ten de- grees colder than Sunday. At Dead wood S. D., the temperature is 20 be- low; at Sheridan, Wyo., 22 below, and at Billings Mont, 20 below.
 Thirty-Two Degrees Below Zero. MALONE, N. r., Jan. 26.-The weather this morning beat the record of the winter here for Arctic cold, the ther- mometers of this village registering from 2S to 30 degrees below zero and the mercury touching s2 degrees below at seven a. III. at Saranac Lake. A stiff gale and drifting snow added to the severity of the day in this county and practically stopped all out door busi- ness
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 26.-At seven o'clock this morning the temper ature in this city was 14 below zero, the lowest since January, 1884. There is AL. n. A L.