The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-10
And Fair but Much Colder Weather
Promised for Other Portions of
the State To-MorrOw.
MUCH DISCOMFORT PROBABLE
PEOPLE WHO DEPEND ON NATURAL
GAS FOR FUEL MAY SUFFER.
Also Those Who Delayed Laying in
Coal, Hoping for. a Decline I'm Price
-Yesterday's Temperatures.

II the predictions of the weather fore
caster at Washington be fulfilled northern
Indiana will get its first taste of real win
ter to-day, and all Indiana, including In
dianapolis, will be shivering tomorrow
The weather forecast for Indiana. prepared
at Washington last night at p. m. and
based on conditions prevailing at p. m.
reads:
Fair and much colder in northwest por-
ton on Monday; fair and much colder on
Tuesday; brisk northwest Winds
In northern Illinois and Ohio the drop
in temperature will be accompanied by a
cold rain. which possibly may turn into
snow along the lakes. In Nebraska last
night semi-blizzard was sweeping over
the State from the northwest, snow was
falling and the mercury had dropped 40 de-
grees from midday. Conditions In the
northwestern States were similar, a cold
wind driving a wintry blast southeastward.
This is the storm that is expected to chill
the marrow of caolless and gasless In
dianions, and the Weather Bureau at WASH
ington hold out no hope that the course of
the storm would be diverted.
There was nothing in the meteorological
conditions here yesterday to indicate an
was little in the conditions anywhere in the
country. The maximum temperature at In
dianapolis was 66 and the minimum A.
while last night at o'clock 1t was IS. Else
where ii also was above the average for
November. Only in the Northwest was the
mercury reported below the freezing point.
In Manitoba and Assniboia, however, the
half-clad fanatical Doukhobors shivered in
a zero-chilled atmosphere, the temperature
at Gu Appelle being stationary at de-
grees below all day. Calgary, in Alberta,
was the coolest place reported by the
Weather Bureau-10 below in the morning,
4 above at noon and zero at p. m. In
Montana, Minnesota, North and South Da-
kota and Michigan the temperature ranged
from to 80 above. In the middle West
and Central States the range was from IS
to above 60, while in the South 20 and above
was reported.
The first severe weather is expected to
be a test of the fuel conditions in Indian
apolis. Natural gas experts say that the
first severe weather will demonstrate the
futility of attempting to continue the use
Of natural gas generally as a fuel for heat
ing purposes. The supply in the present
warm weather has been meager. When the
temperature falls all the valves of 25, ,O0c
consumers of gas in Indianapolis will be
thrown open and 1t is predicted that there
will not be more than enough gas 10 pro-
duce combustion.
The cold wave, belated as it is, will un-
doubtedly find householders short of heat
ing fuel The effect of the coal strike is still
as complete as it was before the resump-
tion of mining in the hard coal regions
There is a demand for fuel that is far ir
excess of the possible supply and coal deal
ers are trying to distribute small consign.
ments, usually not more than a ton, tC
their customers until fuller supply may
be secured. The westward movement oi
Jackson and Pocahontas coal is not yet as
heavy it must be to supply the loca
markets and dealers say Ii will be thirty
days before they can fill orders as they are
expected to be filled.
Anthracite is still practically out of the
market. All that may be shipped in here fol
the next fifteen days is covered by orders
If the orders on the books of coal dealers
are to be taken as evidence of the paucity
of household coal bins only a few have
prepared for the winter and the bulk of the
coal trade is yet to be done.