The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-12-21

Men Frozen to Death IN the Western States
Remarkably Rapid Fall Of Temperature in
Some Places--Twenty-fy Degrees Below
Zero at st. Paul, MIMI, and Eight Below
at Chicago "a Blizzard RACES Forty eight
Hours ID Wyoming, and the Storm in the
Texas Panhandle Causes Great Suffering
Among Cattle-The Mississippi River at
Lacrosse, Wis, Frozen 0yer-Delay on the
Railroads in the Northwest Caused by the
Great Difficulty ID Making. Steam-sleet
Storm in Chicago Causes Considerable
Damage.
CHEYENNE, WYo., Dec ID. The
blizzard raging throughout Southern Wy
onling is terrific. Everything is delayed
from three to- FIVE houis, aud blockade
is imminent. Great distress is reported by
sheepmen Of the Red Desert section and
Southern Uinta county. In the former
section, Charles Barnes aud a Mexican,
sheep herders, were frozen 10 DEATH On
the desert the losses win be large unless a
break occurs within few hours. At
Frewen, Sweet Water county, passenger
train plowed through bunch of sheep
huddled in cut to keep out of the wind,
and over 800 Of the animals are reported
to have been killed.
OMAHA, NEB. Dec 49, Reports from
Western Nebraska and the Black Hills tell
of severe snow storm, from four to six
inches having fallen since last night. In
Chase county six inches Of snow covers the
ground, and the wind has been high max
ing the storm one Of almost blizzard pro-
portions. The thermometer stands at zero.
KANSAS Cry, Mo-, Dec 13.-The
Southwest is experiencing the first general
storm this winter. In Western Missouri,
most Of Kansas and Oklahoma, it is rain
ing, showing or hailing. The thermome-
ter had fallen decidedly since last night,
and in many places the rain has turned to
sleet, causing damage to telephone and tel
egraph wires. The storm will prove of
great value to farmers. Many small streams
had gone dry, leaving no water for stock,
and wheat needed moisture badly.
LISBON, N. d., Dec 13-The Gov
eminent thermometer registered today %
degrees belesx=zeF0, the lowest temperature
II December since the settlement Of Lisbon,
twenty yearsago.
FERGUS FALLS, MINI, Dec. 13-The
Government thermometer registered 25 be-
low zero mere today, fall Of so degrees
in fifteen hours.
One Of the severest cold waves recorded
by the Weather Bureau in December for
many years extended over the Northwest
the middle Mississippi and the Missouri
Valleys, on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day of last week. The temperature from
Northern Illinois southeastward to Arkan-
sas fell from 40 to so degrees in "a hours.
The cold wave is rapidly extending east
ward to The Atlantic coast.
The crest of the zero wave reached
line drawn from Western Ohio southward
to Middle Alabama.
In Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas
blizzard ragged Saturday, and as long
drouth had prevented the obtaining of pro
visions for wintering the cattle in the Pan
handle regions of Texas, great losses are
expected In Wyoming the storm pre-
vailed for As hours The loss Of sheep in
the Red Desert will be enormous. A
stage coach was lost in the drifts on the
prairies and several passengers were badly
frozen
The Mississippi River at Lacrosse, Wis,
was closed with ice and the thermometer %
degrees below zero, the coolest at that point
since 1884.
AT Denver the mercury touched A de-
grefs below, at Kansas City, Mo-, s below;
Wichita, Kan, 6 below; Chicago, below;
st. Paul, Mimi, % below; Milwaukee,
Wis, IL below. The drop in the tenn
sperature in Chicago was the most remark
able in "a years, according to the Weather
Bureau
The greatest drop in temperature was in
ST. Louis, where the mercury fell from "A
degrees to zero in "a hours. In Cleveland
it fell 40 degrees
In Benton county, Mimi, Joseph Ze-
damer, aged 65 years, was frozen to death
Wright Fisher and Dr. Dewitt Jordan,
Of Yincennes, Ind, persisted from the cold
An unknown man was found frozen to
death in a school yard just outside Mil
waukee.
Cold caused three deaths in Chicago.
Ten lives were lost in the blizzard in
Wyoming.
Matthias Gartheffer, aged 65, an old
soldier, was found frozen to death under
railroad bridge near Leayenworth, Kan.
The high north winds and snow storms
interfesed with telegraph communication
to the West, and in some places railroad
traffic was delayed.
Heavy rains fell in the Ohio Valley,
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, and
snow or rain from the Lake Region south
ward to the Gulf of Mexico, except in
Florida. 1t was showing Saturday night
as far South as Central Tennessee.
The bitter-eold wave from the north
west met the furious easterly storm this
side of the Alleghenies early Sunday morn
ing and checked the latter, but not before
the tremendous downpour of rain and ter
rife winds had caused losses to property
aggregating millions of dollars in the States
Of New York and Pennsylvania.
In addition to the enormous damage to
manufacturing plants by floods, a number
Of lives were lost.
Washouts caused damage and delays on
the various railroads in Pennsylvania and
New York. The Lehigh River oFerfowed
the canal at Bethlehem, Pa, and forced
the Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley
Railroads to suspend traffic. About 200
houses in Bethlehem were flooded
The havoc in the Pennsylvania coal re-
gions is enormous. and the los 20 railroad
and mining companies viii amount to mil