The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-15
INTENSE COLD
NOW PREVAILS
Mercury Falls Away Below the
Zero Mark.
&
SEVERAL FROZEN TO DEATH
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KENTUCKY TREATED TO GENU-
me NORTHERN WEATHER.
SEVERAL FROZEN TO DEATH

Washington. Dec. 1.-THE weather
/ bureeu reports severe storms all over
the world. America is not the only
sufferer by any means. Severe, storms
have prevailed and are still prevailing
in the British isles and throughout
northern Europe.
Of the local situation a. J. Henry.
forecast official, says:
The cold wave predicted by the
weather bureau for the middle Mis-
sissippi and Missouri valleys and the
upper lake region has spread 10 the
eastward and southeastward as far as
Chicago and St. Louis, at both places
temperatures falling ffty-foUr degrees
during the last tWenty-fOur hours,
reaching six below at Chicago and
zero az st. Louis. The front of the
cold wave today extends from north
ern Illinois s0uthwestward to Arkan-
sas. In all of this region the temper
allure has fallen from forty to fifty
degrees in the last twenty-fOur hours.
The cold wave promises 10 be severe
during at least two days. 1t viii ex-
tend eastward and southeastward,
reaching the Atlantic coast districts by
ture will occur south of the Ohio river
and east of the Mississippi river"
Frozen at St. Paul.
Dispatches from St. Paul say that
the mercury Yesterday reached two
degrees below zero. Even colder
weather was reported at other points
in the northwest. There was consider
able suffering in the country.
Joseph Zulager, 65 years of age, a
farmer, living in Benton county. fell
in the snow and frOze to death within
forty rods Of his home.
One Death at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee reports eleven degrees be
low zero, the record Of the weather
there. An unknown man was found
frozen to death in the public school
yard at WauWatOsa, a suburb of Mil
Waukee. The body was thinly clad and
it is supposed the man was seeking
shelter when he was overcome from
numbness.
Severe cold prevails throughout the
state
Two SUccumb at Chicago.
The thermometer at Chicago regis
tered eight below IN the morning, which
fell to fifteen before night. liberal
fall of snow preceded the drop.
The death of two WOTkingmen to-
day is attributed to the frigidity.
In Old Kentucky.
The first general snow of the season
in Kentucky fell yesterday and a cold
wave is being felt throughout practic-
ally the entire state. The mercury fell
forty degrees during Friday night.
Missourians Are Shown.
Ten below was the record in Kansas
City Cold weather prevails all over
the state. No moderation is predicted
for twenty hours
Drowned in a Storm.
The heavy wind and rain Friday
night resulted in the drowning Of Ed
Reynolds, a fisherman, his wife and
infant and two others narrowly es-
capped death They were on q house
boat, mOOred near the mouth of Rich
land creek, near Nashville, and the
sudden rise of the waters broke its
mornings and the wind drove the boat
into the middle Of Cumberland river,
where it capsized and sank.
Mississippi Closing.
The Mississippi river at La Crosse.
Wis, is closed, ice forming in the
channel. At 8 O'Clock the government
thermometer registered % degrees be
low zero.
Cold at Denver.
Fourteen degrees below zero was
the temperature recorded by the Den
YER weather bureau at Z a. m
Yesterday at Cheyenne, Wye, it was
20 below zero, and at Lander, Wyo., "A
below.