Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-14
RECORD ZERO MARKS.
Chicago Has Coldest Day For Season
 Since 1876.

# ; Chicago Has Coldest Day For Season
 Since 1876.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 14-A dispatch from Chicago says that yesterday was son of the year since 1876. Early in the morning the temperature began to go down until at 8 a. m. it had reached 13 below. During the day it began to moderate, and the murcury is lowering around the zero mark, and the indica- tions are for warmer weather, with r snowstorms.
 On account of the cold and the heavy condition of the streets owing to the heavy fall of snow the three story de partment store of Bodzinski & Go. in West Twenty-second street was de stroyed by fire. A special for engines was sent in, but before they reached the scene of the fire through the drifts of snow the building had been com pletely destroyed causing a loss of $S5, ,OO0.
 So far but one death has been report ed, that of switchman who was found frozen to death in the Chicago and Northwestern yards.
 A report from Detroit, Mich, says Detroit is having it's first zero weather of the winter. At 9:3O o'clock the ther- mometer in the United States weather bureau registered 3 degrees above zero, and at that hour Observer Conger pre- dicted that it would fall a little below, zero before the morning. The ther- mometer has lowered between 10 and 5 degrees above zero all day, accompa- nied by twenty mile an hour wind. Cleveland (O.) advices say the sever est wind and rain storm in years has swept over that portion of Ohio.
 The weather in Cleveland, O., is the coldest thus far of the present winter. 1 At o'clock last night the thermome- 1 ter was 6 degrees above zero. 1 At Akron fifteen persons were in- l jured by contact with electric wires, | two, it is believed, fatally All lights were out and street car service sus- l pended
 At ZanesviIle the roof of the Smith l block was blown off, blocking the street for hours, and traffic over the high Fifth street bridge was suspended owing to its weakened condition. r A Rochester CN. Y) dispatch says the coldest snap of the season has struck Rochester. The temperature dropped to l IA degrees following very high wind which prevailed all day.
 A Kalamazoo (Mich.) report says sleet I and snow have blocked all railroad and | street car traffic in that section of 1 Michigan. The rainstorm which began early in the morning turned to snow later in the day, and at night there was over twelve inches of snow on the ground No attempt has been made to run street cars. .f l A report from Omaha. Neb., says 1 that zero weather has continued throughout the day in Nebraska, with I slight moderation.
 A St. Paul (NIinn9 report says that the northwest has experienced the cold est weather of the season. the ther- mometer ranging from to A degrees 1 below zero at the various stations of the weather bureau. There is apparent 1 ly no prospect of immediate relief.
 Trains on all railroads are delayed because of the intense cold. Tn St. Paul the minimum was 23 degrees be- low zero, reached early in the morning. Later the mercury stood at 12 degrees below zero. Reports from central Wis consin and northern Michigan report terrific blizzard raging and much de. lay to traffic