The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-26
CHICAGOANS SUFFERED;
COLD IN NORTHWEST

CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-Piercing cold made
the whole Northwest suffer to-day. The
thermometer reached Is below in Chicago.
The record here is % below, and there is
some expectation that a new low point
will be touched before the cold spell is
ended.
One man, frozen stiff, was found by
pedestrians on an outlying part of Thirty
second street He had apparently strug-
gled along until exhausted by the cold, he
had dropped unconscious and literally
frozen to death in his tracks in the snow.
The unidentified corpse was taken to a
morgue. There was countless instances of
frozen ears and hands. Traffic was greatly
hampered.
The cold experienced to-day is the most
intense so far this winter in Chicago.
Stretching to the northwest the mercury
shows a swiftly descending scale. the min
imum in the United States being at Bis
marck and Wiliiston, in North Dakota.
where the official figures are "a below zero.
The crest Of the wave is however, beyond
the national boundary line, Minnedosa. n.
w. T., reporting 80 below. There are no
telegraph stations Northward from Mime
dOsa. AT Winnipeg a blizzard is raging
The coolest temperature noted in Duluth
since Jan 2 1887 when the thermometer
registered Al degrees below zero, prevailed
yesterday, the lowest point recorded being
81 blow at a. m. This morning ii was 81
below. At Eli 1t was 45 below. At Biwa-
bick AZ was shown at p. m. AT st. Paul
30 degrees below zero was the official
weather record to-day. Warmer weather
is predicted for tomorrow
At Milwaukee the thermometer registered
% degrees below zero. At La Cross, Wis
the government thermometer registered q
below, while private thermometers regis
terd from 80 to &c. At Racine the weather
this morning is the coolest in thirty years
the thermometer standing at 20 below zero.
Northwestern Missouri and northern and
western Kansas experienced the coolest
weather of the season to-day, with q still
further fall in temperature predicted to-
night In the northwestern portion of Mis-
souri, the temperature at o'clock this
morning averaged 10 degrees below zero. In
Central Kansas II was degrees above zero
Extreme cold continued throughout Ne
braska and western Iowa. the minimum
temperature being IL below and the maxi
mum for the past twenty-four hours be-
low zero.
Both the Mississippi and the Des Moines
rivers at keOkuk, Ia, are closed, frozen al
most solid The thermometer is below
and falling. There is no further danger
from high water until the next thaw
Farms in the bottoms are surrounded by
bank full and frozen tight. Much danger is
expected when the ice breaks in the spring
Flood conditions are expected TO be more
serious than last summer.
The temperature in central Illinois earlS
to-day registered II below zero, the cold.
est of the season.
Dispatches from Michigan report extreme
cold everywhere. At St Louis, Mich. the
thermometer registered 26 degrees below
zero. at Marine City 10 below. at Bay City
is below and at Detroit 6 below.
The cold wave has effectually checked the
destructive floods throughout northern and
central Ohio. The Weather Bureau Their
mometer ut Cleveland registered 4 below
zero to-day. At Toledo the cold weather
caused the rnning ice TO gorge again yes
terday at the mouth of the river. Much
heavy fee came down, which froze as soor
as it stopped running. The water SLOWLY
began to back up. but soon began to recede
and to-day IL was nine inches below the
a. m mark.