The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-01-28
Blizzard raging .
IN northwest
Three Fatalities Are Reported from
Winnipeg, Manitoba, as Result
of Intense Cold.
Temperature REPORTED At
FIFTY DEGREES below ZERO
-Four Persons Perish at ChicagO-COlJ
Weather Records Broken In Sew
eral States-Freezing Temperature
Helps Flood Situation In Ohio-In
Pennsylvania.

Helps Flood Situation In Ohio-In
Pennsylvania.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Jan. ga special to
the Dispatch from Winnipeg, Man,
says: For the past two days terrible
blizzard has been raging here, prac-
tically tying up the entire city. The cold
has been intense with sharp wind from
the north. A number of persons have
been frozen so badly that they had to
be cared for in the hospital. Only three
deaths have so far resulted here, al
though reports from surrounding coun-
try tell of other fatalities. Until Satur-
day bricklayers were engaged on build
ings and in the new city sewer, but
when the mercury dropped to so degrees
below and three Of nine men were
so badly frozen that they were taken to
the hospital, the rest of them quit
work. During the storm all trains have
been hours late and some have been
Cancelled
Four Persons Perish.
Chicago, Jan. 26.-Residents Of this
city who rose early Monday morning
found the coolest weather of the season.
Another day and night of the same kind
of temperature is promised, with per-
haps some snow, which may even devel-
OPP into an Old-fashioned blizzard,
thrown in. Fifteen degrees below zero
was the mark set at five a. m. by the
thermometer watched over by the
weather man. From that hour it began
to climb, and by ten o'clock had reached
five below. Up to noon four persons
had succumbed to the weather.
In Minnesota.
Thirty degrees below zero was the Of
fetal weather record Monday, although
thermometers in various parts of the
city registered from two to three de-
grees lower.
The coolest temperature noted il
Duluth since January 2, 1887, when the
thermometer registered Al degrees be
low zero, prevailed Sunday, the lowest
point recorded being 81 below at about
nine a. m. Monday morning it was 80
below. The lowest temperature was
noted at Ely, where it was AZ be-
low At Piwabik ~ was shown at five
a N.
In Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, Jan. 26.-This city expert
enced the coolest weather Monday
which it has had since 1887, the Their
mometer registering 23.1 below zero,
The coolest in Milwaukee in the history
!, h,,r IN ,rbn
it was 25 below. The weather through
out the northwest is practically the
same as Sunday, the entire area being
still in the grip of the cold wave.
Rivers Frozen.
Keokuk, Ia, Jan. 26.-Both the Mis-
sissippi and the Des Moines rivers are
closed, frozen almost solid. The Their
mometer was s below ard falling.
There is no further danger from high
water until the next thaw. Farms in
the bottoms were surrounded by frozen
lakes All rivers and creeks are bank
full and frozen tight. Much danger is
expected when the ice breaks in the
springs. Flood conditions are expected
to be more serious than last summer.
The blizzard which broke over Des
Moines and vicinity Sunday morning,
sending the mercury to IS below zero.
the coolest of the winter, was still
raging Monday. From all parts Of the
state come stories of extreme cold,
some places reporting from Is to 90
degrees below.
COIdest of the Winter
Grand Rapids, Mich. Jan. 26.-The
official thermometer in the weather
bureau here registered 9.3 degrees be-
low zero at six a. m. This is the coolest
of the winter The cold is reported as
general throughout western Michigan.
Specials from the state report extreme
cold everywhere. At st. Louis Mich.
the thermometer registered 26 degrees
below zero; at Marine City 16 below,
and at Bay City, IS below. Trains are
late on account of the cold and snow,
and the interurban trolley cars in the
southern part of the state are having
more trouble than ever before, several
spending the night in drifts between
Detroit and Jackson. The passenger
were driven u nearby IOWuS.
Cold Wave Checks Floods.
Cleveland, O., Jan. 26.-The prevail
ing cold wave has effectually checked
the destructive floods throughout north
ern and central Ohio. Reports received
from many points Monday generally in
dictate that the waters were rapidly fall
ing as a result of the extreme cold. The
weather bureau thermometer in this city
registered 4 degrees below zero Monday.
Water Still Rising.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Jan. 26.-The flood
at Bloomsbury, Catawissa and Espy is
still rising, the immense gorge of ice
growing stronger instead of giving way.
A large portion of Bloomsbury is now
flooded, and the water has reached the
second story of many of the houses.
The homeless are being cared for in
the higher parts of the town. Business
Is practically suspended. At Espy peo-
pie were compelled to leave their homes
Monday morning, and at Catawissa all
the streets along the river front are I'M
der water There is no loss Of life re-
ported, although there were riany mar