Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-14
CRITICAL NIGHT
FOR DNA CORN
The Weather Bureau Predicts
Frost, Heavy in the West,
For Tonight
NAY REACH NORTHERN KANSAS
Fresxina Weather in the Dakotas and
Nebraska Likely to Spread to Iowa
and IlIinois-it I. Feared Much Dam
ane Will Result to Crops.

Weather for Iowa-Partly cloudy to-
night and Tuesday: colder tonight and
east Tuesday: frost tonight, probably
heavy in the west.
washington, Sept. 1.-THE weather
bureau &oaay issued the following spec
lal bulletin:
..The tropical storm crossed the gulf
roast line east of Pensacola, Florida.
and will move northward over the in
terior with diminishing strength. caus-
Ing heavy rain In the southern Appa-
larhian mountain districts. There are
no present indications that it will cause
dangerous gales on the middle and
north Atlantic coasts. A frost Is In
x3fcated in the corn belt tonight as far
south as northern Kansas. in extreme
northern Missouri, all over Iowa and
northern Illinois.
Chicago, Sept. 14.-Creeping steadily
and surely eastward, the freezing
weather that now centers in the Da-
kotas u reaching cut to threaten the
corn crop Of Illinois and the wheat
OF the entire central west The frost
is expected to reach Illinois tomorrow
or Wednesday. It will envelop Iowa
tonight, and may reach as far down
as Kansas, unless checked by change
In conditions. This is the announce
smsnt made by the local weather of
Acials:
Chicago likely will not feel the fuI
effect Of the drop In temperature be-
fore Wedn esday. The humidity OF the
past few days then will give way to
bracing cold, all the more severe be-
cause OF it's early appearance"
An area OF high pressure Aeconpan-
led by freexinE temperature and frost
has been hanging over the Dakotas
since Friday. 1t has been prevented
from moving eastward by storms NOV
inx from the southwest, which have
kept the Mississippi valley warm AMI
rainy. Yesterday it began moving and
at observation time last evening it had
affected western Iowa A difference of
twenty degrees in temperature was no.
ficed between eastern and western
Iowa.
At Des Moines the temperature was
70 degrees, while at Omaha 1t had
fallen to SO and was still going down.
A greater difference was observed in
Kansas The temperature at Wichita.
Ia the east, was 81 degrees, while at
Dodge City, In the west it was only Sc.
The two cities were only on the edge
of the region affected by the high tenn
perature pressure, and the observa :
tion towns to the north and west re-
ported much lower temperatures.
Some OF the low temperatures re-
ported at observation time were:
Bismarck, N. d. ......,...,. .. .. !. 81
Cheyenne, Wyo. .................. SO
Huron, s. D. ................... ;. 36
Helena, Mont. .............,. :. :. ;. 40
lander. Wyo. $500. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .ss
Rapid City, S. %. ........ .i. SO
Winnipeg, Canada ........ ;. =. =. ). :. 40
Forecaster Walz said last evening:
The area Of high pressure has been
very persistent and has shown no signs
OF breaking UP. It has been prevented
from moving eastward by storms in the
states to the east.
That condition is passing away, and
{ zee nothing which will stop the ma
tural progress OF the anti-cyclone in the
{ east It seems to have sufficient vir-
ility to carry 1t certainly as far as Illi-
nois. It would do ihcalculable damage
at this time OF the year, as the Illinois
corn is three weeks behing the season
The frost which would accompany 1t
would do inestimable harm.
The cold weather may be STAYED off
and possibly broken by storm which
Is forming off the gulf coast. A typical
West Indian hurricane seems to be
forming down there, and its course
would be up thru the central states.
Such course would bring a return OF
the rainy conditions of the latter part
OF last week and would hold the cold
weather in the west.
'The weather conditions Of the cen
tral states are unsettled and 1t is diff
ficult to foreIell what will happen.
From the present conditions, however,
believe that we will have a great fall
In temperature"
The effect OF the cold wave was ap-
parent yesterday, the maximum tenn
perature Of 76 degrees occurring at
midnight The minimum temperature
was 50 degrees, at,7 o'clock in the NOR
ming. The maximum velocity Of the
wind was thirty.five miles an hour.
from the south. 'at 10 o'clock in the
morning.