Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1899-02-09
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LATEST NEWS FROM THE FILIPINO FIGHTERS

TOPEKA. Kas., Feb. 9.-Thermom-
eters here registered 10 degrees below
zero this morning.
coLDEsT SINCE 1883.
OMAHA, Neb. Feb. 9.-The weather
bureau thermometer registered % de-
grees below zero this morning, the colo
est WEATHER at this station since 1883,
when the record was % below.
coLDEsT SINCE 1879.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Feb. 9-Ten de-
grets below zero by weather bureau
thermometer. the coldest since 1879.
TELEGRAPH SERVICE DEMoRALIzED. =
tLEvELAND, Ohio, Feb. The ther-
mometer today registered IA below or
switllin3 degrees of the low record of
1873; Telegraph service is demoral-
CoLDEsT SINCE 1872.
Chicago, His, Feb. 9-The city is In
the grasp of the coldest weather since
lS72 The thermometer at 6 O'clock, a.
M, registered % degrees below at the
weather bureau. Many thermometers
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Twenty people were so severely frost
bitten during the early morning hours
that they had to be removed to. hospi-
tails There is no snow on the ground.
and frost penetrates to the water mains
and several portions of the city are
suffering from lack of water
DRIFTS TWENTY FEET HIGH.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Through New
York state all railroad traffic is delayed
several hours by snow, which on level
averages a foot deep and in many
places it has drifted twenty feet hight.
The Hudson river has overflowed and
is flooding blick, kilns, lumber yards.
etc. Long Island sound was swept
from end to end by the highest tides
ever known.
A ROWLING NoRTHEASTER.
BOsTON, Mass, Feb. "a bowling
northeast snow storm has prevaiIed
along the Massachusetts coast for the
past twenty-four hours. A three
masted schooner is reported wrecked
off Nantasket Beach.
RECORD AGAIN BRoKENE
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 9-The win
ter's cold record was again broken. last
night the mercury reaching SO below.
CoLDEsT FOR YEARS.
ST, LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 9-Not since
1884 has the weather been SO cold. The
government thermometer registers 10
below zero,
FROZEN TO DEATH.
+. CHICAGO, Ills, Feb. Oh. Bluensield
was found frozen to death on the
street. by a police officer.
THE ooLDEsT PLACE.
HURON, N. D., Feb. 9-Thirty-six
below at Huron was the coldest place
in the United States. The line of zero
temperature passes from Chesapeake
Bay westward over Tennessee, sArkan-
sas and Oklahoma. Freezing tempera-
lures are reported as far south as CEN
tral Florida.
R COLDEsT DAY THIS WINTER.
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-This was the.
coldest day of the winter in New York.
At a. m. the temperature was de-
gree above zero.
FUEL AND PROVISIONS SCARCE.
LEADvILLE Colo, Feb. 9.-The fuel
supply is nearly exhausted, and it is
feared the smelters and mines will have
to shut down. Seven cars of coal remain
for pumping thedown-town mines. This
work will be continued If possible.
there has been practically fifteen days
of continuous snow storm. The Rio
Grande is getting trains through. but
with difficulty. 10 replenish the fuel
supply it is necessary that the roads be
kept open at least week. KOkomo
and breckenridge are suffering froma
scarcity ofprovisions.
Low RECORD BROKEN.
KANSAS Cry, Mo, Feb, 9.-The
| local low temperature record was broken
this morning, the official Thermometer
at : O'clock recording 90 2-l0 below zero.
RANGE oATTLE SUFFERING.
WICHITA, Kan, Fob. at is report
ed that many cattle on the range are
suffering from frozen hoofs. This
usually proves fatal.
SAM KENNEDY FROZEN.
| ST. LOUIS. Feb, 9.-Sam Kennedy, a
laborer, was found in a coal shed, frozen
to death.
81 BELOW IN IOWA.
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WEBSTER CRY. Iowa, Feb. 9.-With
the mercury at 81 below zero, disas-
treus fire broke out in Williams, ifteen
miles east of this city last night. Six
business blocks. were destroyed. Loss
| $4,000.
TWO MORE DEATHS.
JOLIET, Ills, Feb. 9.-Frank Dubriet
and George Hamilton have been found
frozen to death. ks
I$ WARNER WEATHER PREDICTED.
4 WASHINGTON, FEB. "a weather
j bureau special bulletin says: The tenn
perature continues abnormally low Ii
all districts east of tho Rocky Noun
tains. The lowest Temperature reached
was SO degrees below zero at MInnedosa
Manitoba. The outlook Is that therl
will be marked though gradual rise O.
Z temperature east OF the Rocky Noun
taIns after today. II
NEVER HAD An EQUAL.
i DENVER, Colo, Feb. 9.-The mount
ain roads are again tightly tied W
i The Rio Grande trains are running onI,
as far ae SalIda Marshall pass Is agail
| blocked and around Leadyille is tw