The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-17
COLD WIND HOWLED
YESTERDAY WAS ONE OF THE
MOST DISAGREEABLE OF
THE WINTER
THERMOMETER WENT 4 BELOW
All Trains From the West Were Can
ceIed on Account of Biz
yards Raging in North
Dakota.

The people who for the past two weeks
have been heaping ridlcule upon the time
honored weather prophet, the ground hog,
even to the extent of purchasing various
kinds of spring raiment, had an elegant
opportunity yesterday of repentance. The
stylish spring raglan and the natty spring
hat, with accompanying spring cane, were
all severely relegated to the extreme
background yesterday morning, and if
the government weather observer has
anything to say in the matter, these ar
ticles will remain in this state for few
days to come, and even longer
The weather yesterday was of the sort
that is moderately termed "horrid," and
the few persons that were forced to be
outside any length of time during the
day or night, as q general rule, applied
a stronger and more picturesque term.
While the official thermometer did not get
down below degrees below zero at the
coolest time of the day, the bowling wind
with the skirling snow made it a great
deal more uncomfortable than If it had
been IA degrees below.
The clustering tactics of the atmos
phere began late Saturday night, and
with each hour of the. new day became
worse. Fairly in the morning a gale was
blowing that made Roadway on foot al
most q matter of utter inpossibiiity.
Street signs We're torn off, to CHATTER down
the streets, the small bill boards were
carried hither and thither, slamming up
against the sides of buildings and tearing
along before the wind causing pedes-
TRANS to step aside to escape annihila-
ton. A motor man carrying coal to an
Interurban car in front OF the Ryan
hotel had his scuttle blown out Of his
hand which was carried nearly block.
Persons waiting in doorWays for their
car heard a racket of immense volume.
as if the tin roofs of all the buildings in
town were being torn off, and the women
began to clutch their escorts, until they
saw the humble and dirged bod careering
gaily before the winter blasts ON the
frozen asphalt.
In every district in the city the house
hold sends up Il wall on account of frozen
water pipes and the bursting thereof, and
not a few spent dreary Sunday in mad
dening efforts to get the water in a liq-
uid state. Janitors who forgot to build
their fires found buildings uninhabitable,
and overcoats and wraps In many cases
were as badly needed inside as out.
The cold snap caused some real suffer-
ing in not few cases, as many, believing
the winter to be a thing of the past, al
owed the coal bins to become depleted,
and when the sudden change came, they
found It impossible to secure fuel.
While it was bad enough in st. Paul
the condition of the general Northwest
was much worse. The Great Northern
and Northern Pacific trains were both
cancelled, as they are snow bound some
where in the DaKoJas, and they will not
arrive until the blizzard that is raging
there ceases. All the trains from the
East arrived in St. Paul on schedule
time, but none was from the West last
night All day long there were knots of
people waiting for news from the West
ern trains, but the officials We're una
BILE to give them anything to hope for.
Owing to the fact that there was but a
slight fail of snow the street car service
was as good as could be expected.
The weather Office reported the velocity
of the wind thirty miles an hour at the
worst yesterday, and while there are no
observations taken Sunday, the forecaster
hazarded the prediction that the present
weather will continue today and possibly
longer