The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-22
WINTER ALL At ONCE
Mercury TumbIes Half the
Length of the Tube.
BLIZZARD IN THE NORTH
While the Frost Line Almost
Reaches the Gulf.
BLIZZARD IN THE NORTH

Washington, Nov. 21.-The weather bu-
reau tonight sends out the following gen.
eraI weather conditions and forecast:
The cold wave has reached the Missis-
sippi river and in states bordering on the
western bank of the Mississippi from
Louisiana to Minnesota the temperature
has fallen 80 to 50 degrees in the last
twenty-four hours. with snow as far south
as Oklahoma and southern Missouri and
! freezing weather to southern Arkansas
! and northern Texas. The special warn
! ing 20 transportation. shipping and agri-
| cultural interests which nave preceded
| the advance OF this cold wave over the
western states by twenty-four to thirty
hours have been telegraphed TO all inter-
ests far as the Allegheny mountains
and the Gulf and the interior Of the South
Atlantic states. The warnings stated that
very cold weather would continue several
days and that extraordinary precautions
should be taken to protect perishable
goods.
Warnings of unusually severe gales
have been sent to all lake stations and
along the Atlantic coast from Florida to
Maine.
Storm signals are also displayed along
the Gulf coast
BLIZZARD IN THE NORTHWEST.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Nov. 2l.-The first snow
storm of the season began falling early
this morning, the storm developing into
genuine blizzard. There * a high wind
blowing and the snoy- Is drifting. Re
rrfc
that the storm is general
st. Paul, Mimi, Nov. 21-The first gen.
eral storm of the winter prevailed
throughout the northwest during the past
twenty-four hours and it stu continues
without much abatement. The snow has
been accompanied by a high wind.
Dispatches from various points in North
and South Dakota and Minnesota. Wis
consin and northern Iowa report local
business impeded. The weather observer
here predicts that the storm will con-
tnGe tonight and tomorrow and will be
followed by cold wave. Battleford and
Calgary, in the British Northwest Ter
ritory, reports temperatures of "a and %
degrees below zero. and other places say
zero weather is prevailing.
Locally Tie storm has been quite severe
causing delay to street car TIE. The
mercury is rapidly falling and the
weather observer believes it viii go to 10
or Is below zero tomorrow Railroads
centering here report trains moving with
but little delay
The storm was especially severe on |
Lake Superior, Duluth reporting a 7O-mile |
gale.
A Duluth special says report is cur |
rent there tina tthe steamer Hiram r. |
Dixon, of the Booth Packing a tpany's /
line, has foundered. The Dixon left Du- |
luth this morning and the last heard of /
her she had passed Two Harbors.
Duluth, Mimi, Nov. PA bowling biz |
zard with a 45-mile wind is raging here |
and the weather is rapidly growing colder. |
All vessels are remaining in port and |
a 60-rnile gale prevails over Lake Su- |
perior.
DEATH FROM COLD IN OMAHA
Omaha. Neb., Nov. 21-Neb-aska has |
been in the grip of a nor;+er all day. |
For twenty-fOur hours a strong wind /
from the northwest has swept the state |
and during most of that time II mas
driven a fine snow ahead of IT, This
snow has been too light and dry to drift |
badly and consequently the country roads
are in no danger of a blockade. Con-
siderable loss of stock, both cattle ana |
sheep. is feared owing 70 the fact that
many thousands have been brought in TO-
feed and have not had sine 70 become
sufficiently acclimated 10 stand the storm.
Omaha has had the worst OF The storm
up TO date. so far as has been learned.
Street traffic was practically suspended
here all day. The street cur lines have
had a hard struggle 20 keep open, but
two of them have succumbed, the others
being able 70 run cars at irregular inter
walls. One death from exposure is report
ed, D. H. Thompson of Des Moines. Ia.
was found dead on the street in South
Omaha about 7 o'clock. He vas a can
vasser for a ST. Louis view publication
firm and while his clothes were good they
were of summer weight and he had no
overcoat.
AT o'clock the storm abated greatly
and the temperature was going up. The
fall in twenty-four hours. from 3 o'clock
Sunday TO 3 O'Clock Monday, was @ Ge-
grees.
AT ST. JOSEPH. MO.
St. Joseph. No, Nov. PA remarkable
change in weather has taken place here
during the last twenty-four hours sun
day il was too hot for overcoats and
wraps, and the wind blew a gale. ! ast
night sleet began 10 fall. whicn turned
INTO swon This morning and -here was a
,aA in temperature Of 40 degrees. The
weight of the sleet has broken down
many telephone wires and railroad trans
are running irregularly.
REPORTED FROM KANSAS CITY.
Kansas iCty, 40. Nov. 2.-SIeet ana