The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-28
MERCURY WY DOWN
Kansas Towns Made Fearful
Showing With thermometers.
BAD AS REST OF COUNTRY
8lizzard in North Seems to
Have No End.

Topeka, Kan. Jan. 27.-Kansasa has
ben experiencing some severe weathe-
durin gthe past "a hours. This morning
it was the coolest winter so far. the Their
mometer reading all the way from 10
TO Il degrees below zero Last night was
very cold but fortunately the cold was
accompanied by little or no wind, and
consequently there was comparative little
damage among stock. The weather
throughout the state tonight is about
at zero with practically no wind and
the prospects OF warmer weather to-
morrow.
Kansas City. Mo-, Jan. 27.-Last night
and this morning was the coolest exper-
fenced in this part of the southwest dur
ing this winter, with the following tenn
peratures-
Clinton. no. II degrees below zero;
Lawrence, Kan, 16 below; Abilene. Kan.
10 below; Kansas City. no, Z below;
At Clinton, the thermometer fell 40 de-
grees within twelve hours. Near Jewell,
Kan, a Missouri Pacific freisht train
was ditched today by running into a
snow bank. No one but the engineer
was injured. Today the weather in all
parts Of the southwest has moderated
greatly and the indications are that the
severe cold is at an end.
CHICAGO A SUFFERER.
Chicago. Jan. 27.-Chicago is struggling
under the biting blasts of a cold wave
that arrived here last night, the off-shoot
of the big blizzard that has been raging
in the northwest. In the last twenty-four
hours the temperature has fallen as de-
grees, having touched degrees below
zero at daylight. AS the day advanced,
mometer AMI at 10 o'clock was degrees
below.
An the northwest is suffering from the
extremely cold weather. which covers all
the upper lake region and the Mississippi
valley region, with zero temperatures ex-
tending to the extreme southern portion
of Illinois. Missouri and Kansas. In the
further northwest states the range OF
temperatures is from 10 to "a degrees
below zero.
Traffic has been severely impeded where
the blizzard occurred and passenger
trains on nearly all roads have arrived
several hours late. Coal dealers express
no fear for a repetition of the coal fam
inc that was brought on by the last cold
wave unless the below zero temperatures
outlast week.
One death so far has been reported as a
result Of the cold. The body of Sarah
Scriggs. 4 colored woman. was found in
bed in a shed in the rear Of 1861 West
Lake street.
20 BELOW IN IOWA.
Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 27.-The govern
ment weather bureau reported minimum
temperature for Des Moines of 1s degrees
below zero at s o'clock. It reports a min
imum of 20 at Sioux City and estimates
the average for the state at about two
degrees colder.
rs BELOW IN MINNESOTA.
St Paul, Mimi, Jan. 27.-After more
than a month Of comparatively mild
weather the mercury began to drop Fri
day night and by Sunday morning a mild
blizzard had set in. During last night the
ranged from Is to % below
zero. the official figure being &c below.
Continued cold IS promised.
20 BELOW IN WISCONSIN.
La Crosse, Wis. Jan. IA severe biz
zard IS raging n this vicinity The mer-
curry dropped about twenty degrees since
yesterday and this morning was L de-
grees below zero. The cold wave, ac-
By fall Of four inches OF
snow and a high wind.
SNOW IN VIRGINIA.
Huntington. W. Va, Jan. Z7.-Tyenty-
four hours Of heavy rain is being followed
by the fiercest snow storm Of The season
in southwestern Virginia Traffic is de
ayed on ali the railroads
". /. Yancy, Paducah. Ky. writes
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southern Kentucky treated mo without
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