The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-18
SWEEPING ON.
The Storm is Moving Over
Iowa, Missouri and Illinois.
Has Been Followed Closely by
Freezing Weather.
FROST LAST NIGHT
Extended Through Texas Into
Louisiana.
Great Damage Has Been Done
on the Range.
FROST LAST NIGHT

Kansas City, Oct. 1S.-Freezing
weather has followed yesterdays storm
of rain and snow in Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa and Nebraska in many places. A
strong wind still blows causing more or
less damage. Wire communication so
badly demOralized yesterday north and
west has been only partially restored
At most places as far as ascertained
today the snow ceased falling about
midnight last night, when the ther-
mometer began to drop.
The wet snow Of the past "a hours
had wrought havoc with wires, trees
and country roads, and when the freez-
ing weather turned the coating to ice,
as it seems to have done generally, the
prospects of relief Iessened. Last night
before it began to get colder, communi-
cation with Topeka, Wichita, Guthrie
and Denver, shut off for fifteen hours,
was opened. This morning, however,
the freezing snow had ca5ed on the
wires and again made the wire service
uncertain. At this hour, 10 a. m, To-
peka and Denver are reached imperfect
ly. Wichita has been lost again and
Omaha is almost as completely shut off
as it was "a hours ago. But brief news
of suffering on the open prairies where
stock is known to be unprotected has
been received but enough to say that
great damage to cattle will result
1.-THE storm area central yesterday
over Missouri has moved but little, be-
ing central this morning near Daven-
port, Ia. Its progress is toward north
northeast. At a m. rain was falling
in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Illi-
nois and snow in South Dakota, east
ern Nebraska, extreme northeast Kan
SaS and western Missouri. The weather
was clear in the western half of kan
sas and Nebraska, in Oklahoma and in
the south and southwest. Frost occur
red last night in northern Texas and
extended to the northwest corner Of
Louisiana. Heavy frost was general in
Oklahoma and Arkansas. The tempera-
ture this morning in the western states
is not far from the freeing point" The
predictions are still for rain or snow.
Peace Jubilee Spoiled.
Leavenworth, Kan, Oct. 18.-The
blizzard seriously interfered with the
opening ceremonies of the annual grand
lodge meeting of the Kansas and West
ern Missouri Select Knights. A street
parade and competitive drill at Fort
LeaVenWOrth were abandoned.
The peace jubilee set for today has
been postponed for a week. Most of
the tents of the Twenty-secOnd Kansas
volunteers were blown down, and the
camp wrecked. The cook and provision
tents were the first to CO. and the men
had no breakfast. All the soldiers of
the regiment were allowed to come to
town to seek shelter, and most of them
slept in public buildings last night.
Mercury Dropped 80 Degrees.
Nashville, Ill, Oct 18-The first blasts
of the winter of 1898 struck this section
last night. The wind, which had been
blowing a gale from the south all day,
whipped to the northwest and the ther-
mometer dropped thirty degrees, the
mercury registering 35 degrees at 9
o'clock last evening The cold wave
and a heavy frost will do no damage
in this vicinity. The corn is all matured
and the farmers have the fall wheat
SOWn.