The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-25
AWAY DOWN BELOW @.
Is Where the Mercury Will Go
Say Washington Dispatches.

Washington, Jan. 25.-Advices receiv-
ed by the weather bureau indicate that
the full force of the cold wave will not
be felt in the middle and south Atlantic
states until tonight and tomorrow
morning, when the lowest temperatures
of the season will undoubtedly be
reached.
The reports received show that the
entire country from the Rocky noun
tairs to the Atlantic coast has or will
feel severity the effects of the cold snap,
which is technically explained to be due
to an exceedinly high barometer from
the cold-breeding regions of the Cana
dian northwest provinces pushing south
and eastward and displacing the low
barometer in those sections. Local
SHOWS are quite generally reported
from Texas and from Mississippi val
ley regions.
In this city the thermometer last
night went to degrees above zero and
is expected to fail considerably before
tomorrow morning. The sun is out
and the air is clear and crisp. IT is
too early to predict how much damage
will be done to Florida and the south
Atlantic states by the cold snap, as
the wave will not strike that section
severely until tonight. The weather
bureau expects that low temperatures
will be general throughout the section
east of the Rockies most, if not all, the
week.
Burlington, Ia, Jan. 25.-The Their
mometer this morning ranged from Is
to 20 degrees below zero. A bitter
northwest wind causes much suffering.
Omaha, JAN 25.-The cold wave has
abated here and generally over the
state. The minimum temperature dur
ing the last 48 hours was 10 below. The
wind has moderated. There was but
t1l NT0I,T e-Iro Fo,.
ported, the personal suffering has been
slight.
Council Bluffs, Jan. 25.-Last night
was the coolest of the year. At a.
m. today the thermometer indicated 18
below. The Missouri river is frozen
solid.
Madison, Wis, Jan. 25-The mini
mum thermometer this morning was %.
This is the official registration at Wash
burn observatory AT II a. m. it was
only less. Lowest Sunday was 20.
A phenomenon is that while the ice is
foot thick at some places in local
lakes, other places are open. Nothing
like it has been known here before.
St. Louis, Jan. 25.-Last night was
the coolest of the season, if not in years,
and much suffering among homeless
and destitute people resulted. More
than 800 tramps and homeless persons,
among whom were many well dressed
men and women out OF employment,
took refuge in the various police sta
of others who could not get shelter
were badly frozen.
Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 25.-The coolest
weather of the winter prevails through
out western Pennsylvania today. In
this city the mercury dropped to from z
TO 10 degrees below zero, while the
thermometers in the country registered
from to 10 degrees colder. The cold
wave was preceded by d heavy snow
fall.
Denver. Jan. 5.-Thermometers regis
tered s to 10 degrees below zero in Den
yer this morning. At some points in
Colorado the thermometer fell 20 de-
grees in IA hours.
Cleveland, O., Jan. 25.-At the weather
bureau office this morning at o'clock
the mercury registered Is degrees be-
low, being within 31a degrees of the
lowest point reached in over 20 years.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 25.-The
lowest temperature reached here last
night was 80 below, which is the coolest
| in three years.
Duluth Mimi, Jan. 25.-The weather
| at Duluth is very cold, the government
| thermometers registering 80 degrees be-
| low zero. There is an absence of wind.
| On the ranges, at Virginia, 81 below is
| the figure; at Tower, A.; at Ely. 40; at
| Two Harbors, %, and some winds.