El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-09
THE,SCARCITY OF FUEL
In Colorado Mining ICamps
Has Made the People Des-
perate, And Worse
Is Feared.

L
er records for 25 years were broker
during the early hours this morning
From the mouth of the Mississippi tC
Medicine Hat, the weather reports
show a rapid falling temperature.
Following are the latest "below
zero" temperature reports received
Bismarck, 20; Davenport, "a; Des-
Moines, 25; Detroit, 10; Dubuque, 25:
Duluth. 80; Huron, 81; St. Marquette,
20; Omaha, 25; Kansas City, 80; Win-
nepeg, A.
CINCINNATI O., Feb. 9.-There are
no flies in Cincinnati today. This
morning the cold weather record was
broken by the mercury sliding down
to 10 below, several degrees lower than
it has ever been since the government
bureau began dispensing weather over
the country.
Reports from Indiana. Kentucky.
and West Virginia show the weather
all around below zero mark, 20 below
at Elwood, Ind, 10 below at Hunting
ton, w. Va.
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 9.-At Z
this morning the mercury touched IA
below, the lowest since January 1875,
when it was II, the Cleveland record.
The hotel lobbies were filed last night
with homeless wretches who crowded
in for shelter. The clerks did not
have the heart to turn them out into
the bitter cold.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 9,-The lowest tenn
To- irrhf
% degrees below. The unusual cold
caused much suffering among the poor,
but so far no deaths have been report
ed. Many factories are closed down as
they cannot be comfortably warmed.
The natural gas holds out WE'LL It is
the coldest since 1861.
DENVER, Feb. 9.-The railroads are
still suffering from the enormous &C
cumulation of snow in the mountains.
A big rotary plow was buried under a
big snow slide at Req Cliff this morn
ing.
The weather here is balmy today, |
the cold snap having gone east on a |
visit. Two theatrical companies ar
rived this morning, being seven days |
coming from Salt Lake.
LEADvILLE,, Feb. 9.-The condition
here today from lack of fuel is des-
perate. A meeting of mine owners
was held at noon. They agreed to
close down and offer the services of q
thousand miners to the Rio Grande
to dig out the snow on the
track eight miles to Malta, where
cororo1 oool frainS are hnria6
If coal is not secured Immediately,
pumps must stop, which in few hours
would allow the water to flood the
mines, causing incalculable damage.
SKIBBEREEN, Feb. 9.-Terrific
weather is prevailing all along the
Irish coast, and great quantities of j.,
wreckage are being washed ashore.
ng that vessels carrying timber have /;
oeen lost. D.,
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Piercing /.
Winds and zero weather com bine today
% make New Workers uncomfortable.
t is the coldest day of the season and
he mercury is still falling from the ,
ero mark, which was reached at
o'clock this morning.
Several deaths from the cold are re-
,orted and there is great suffering in
he poor districts.
At Fanwood, N. j., two men were
ound frozen to death.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-This is the cOldest
ay in 26 years in Chicago. At 9
'clock this morning the temperature +
7as 81 degrees below zero. This is
he lowest reading since December,
S71, when the mercury dropped to'23
egrees below the cipher mark. The
veather man says the record which
as stood for a generation will be O
mashed before the day is out. n