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

A ZERO WAVE.
Men Frozen to Death in the Western States
Remarkably Rapid Fall of Temperature in
Some Places-Twenty- five Degrees Below
Zero at ST. Paul, Mimi, and Eight Below
at Chicago-A Blizzard RACES Forty eight
Hours in Wyoming, and the Storm in the
Texas Panhandle Causes Great Suffering
Among Cattle-The Mississippi River at
Lacrosse, Wis. Frozen Over-Deay on the
Railroads in the Northwest Caused by the
Great Difficulty in Making Steam-Sleet
Storm in Chicago Causes Considerable
Damage.
CHEYENNE, WYO., Dec 13.-The
blizzard raging throughout Southern Wy
oming is terrific Everything is delayed
from three to five hours, and a blockade
is imminent. Great distress is reported by
shecpmen Of the Red Desert section and
Southern Uinta county. In the former
section, Charles Barnes and a Mexican.
sheep herders. were frozen to death On
the desert the losses will be large unless a
break occurs within Il few hours. At
Frewen Sweet Water county, passenger
train plowed through "A 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. l3.-Reports from
Western Nebraska and the Black ills 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 CITY, Mo-, Dee 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 mailing. The thermome-
ter had fallen decidedly since last night.
and in many place, 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, y. d., Dee. l3.-The Gov
eminent thermometer registered today 81
degrees below zero, the lowest temperature
i'll December since the settlement Of Lisbon.
twenty years ago.
FERGrs FALLS, MINI. Dec 13.-The
Government thermometer registered % be
low zero mere today, fall Of 80 degrees
in fifteen hours.
One Of the sevcrcst 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 soulheastward to Arkan-
sas fell from 40 to 30 degrees in - hours.
The cold wave Is rapidly extending east
ward to the Atlantic coast.
The crest Of the zero wave reached a
line drawn from Western Ohio southwark
to Middle Alabama
In Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas a
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 Is hours The loss Of sheep in
the Red Desert will be enormous. \
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 IA de-
grees below, at Kansas City, Mo-, below;
Wichita, Kan, 6 below; Chicago, 8 below;
st. Paul, Mimi, % below; Milwaukee,
Wis, / below. The drop in the tenn
perature in Chicago was the most remark
able in n 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 ~ hours In Cleveland
it fell 40 degrees.
la Benton county, MINI, Joseph he
damer, aged 50 years, was frozen to death
Wright Fisher and Dr. Dewitt Jordan,
Of Nincennes, 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 Leavenworth Kan.
The high north winds and snow storms
interfered 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 cold 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 m tho anormnus damaoa fn
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 overfowed
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-