Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-12-20
THE TERRIBLE STORM
THE PRESENT SEASON BREAKS
THE RECORD.

People and Cattle Freeze to Death-The Mer.
curry Suddenly Falls Several Degrees Below
Zero Over Wide Expanse Of Country.
Kansas. Nebraska. Illinois. Wyoming. Mime.
sofa. Oklahoma. Missouri, Montana. Utah.
All Under Icy Fetters-lt Extends to the
Atlantic Seaboard and Pennsylvania Is In.
der Sway.
Chicago, last Saturday experienced
one OF the most severe cold snaps on
record for the early part of the winter.
The weather Office predicted, early in
the day, that it would prove the most
severe weather that the city had felt
in twenty-five years during the month
OF December, and no flaws can be
found in the prediction.
Three deaths were reported to the
police during the day as having been
caused by the cold.
In the large downtown stores ol
Chicago, where Christmas shoppers
we're in force. it was found impossible
to keep the buildings at comfortable
temperature, and the clerks wore
cloaks and overcoats as they stood be-
hind the counters.
The cold was accompanied by gale
from the northwest that made the suf.
fering much more severe.
A Chyenne, Wyo., dispatch of Sat.
urday says: The storm in the south.
ern part of Wyoming, for the past
forty.eight hours, shows no disposition
to abate. The thermometer is now
below zero, with wind blowing that
cuts to the marrow. Several herders
have been frozen to death in their ef.
forts to gather in scattered bands ol
sheep. The loss OF sheep in the Red
Desert cannot be estimated, as the
flocks are scattered to the four winds
The habit which sheep have Of taking
refuge in railway cuts has resulted in
the death Of large number under the
wheels OF railroad trains. Snow plows
have been working at the most threat
ened points on the Union Pacific, and
though the track has been kept open
trains are delayed six to seven hours
| So far ten lives are known to have
been lost as the result OF the recent
blizzard in Wyoming.
A Kansas dispatch of the same date
says: Kansas 10 experiencing no re-
lief from the cold wave that struck
the State last night. The tempera'
lures tonight are slightly higher, the
average being about zero. As cold a.
IL degrees below zero is reported in
the central portion Of the State.
Lives lost 90 far as known tonight
number only three. Reports tell ol
herders on the plains who have no;
yet returned, and it is feared they
have periehed.
Damage among stock is widespread
Farmers were not prepared for the
sudden change in the weather and had
no adequate protection for their ami
mails. Considerable stock has died
though numbers are at this time un'
obtainable.
A dispatch from Peabody says the
wheat In that district has been killed
by the cold. Salina reports that
wheat there is in bad condition, but
will be saved if the cold abates soon
There has been no snow in the wheat
region and the cereal is thus unable to
withstand the intense cold.
Wisconsin, says a dispatch Of the
l4th, is wrapped in the severest De-
cember cold wave known in may years
The coolest point in the State heard
from is Plainfield. which reports 81
degrees below zero. Other cities re
porting low registration are Mondovi
80; Barsboo, "a; Lacrosse, %; Green
Bay, 18; Madison, 16; Oshkosh, Is, and
Marinette, IA, all below zero. At
o'clock that night Milwaukee ther
mometers registered 10 degrees below
or one degree above the lowest poin'
Of the day. The figures show droE
in "a hours OF Al degrees. The tota
snow fall which ended last night wa
four inches.
So far one death from the sever,
cold has been reported in the State
that of Philip Kronenberger, an in
mate of An aims house at Wauwatosa
He was II years old. He was fount
dead in the vicinity of the Wauwatos,
high school, where it is supposed HI
was overcome at q time when he wa
seeking shelter.
| A st. Paul dispatch of the samt
date, says: The Northwestern State'
during the past forty-eight hours hav'
reported the severest cold wave eve
known during the month of Decem
Der. All stations report record break
ing "lows," ranging from fifteen Il
thirty.nine belew. Park Rapids, il
Northern Minnesota, reported the lat
ter figure. Coming as 1t did afte
mild weather the cold was severel.
felt, but 80 far as reported but one per
son rerished. This was Joseph Zula
ger. a farmer, IS years OF age, livinl
near st. Clond, MINI. He was return
ing from visit to neighbor and hi
sleigh overturned, leaving him sense
less upon the prairie. where he wa
found frozen to death.
In Oklahoma the storm assume'