Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-29
INTENSE COLD
is REVAIL|NG
Records for Extreme Temperature
Are Broken.
SOME FATALITIES REPORTED
Mercury Drops MT One Point In Mime.
sofa to Fifty-seven Degrees Be-
low Zero-Great Amount of
Suffering Results.

low Zero-Great Amount of
Suffering Results.
st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. pa 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 cour-
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
Fifty-Seven Below.
Duluth, Mimi, Jan 26-The weather
at Pokegama Dam, near Grand Rapids
was 81 below zero Monday morning, by
the government thermometer there. AT
Hibbing it is AZ below and at Tower 4S.
Four Persons Perish.
Chicago, Jan. 26.-Residents of this
city who rose early Monday morning
found the coolest weather of the season.
Another day ard night of the same kind
Of temperature is promised, with per-
haps some snow, which may even devel-
op into an old-fashioned blizzard,
thrown in. Fifteen degrees below zero
was the mark set at five a. IN. 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 Wfsconsin.
Milwaukee, Jan. 26-This city expert
enced the coolest weather Monday
which it has had since 1887, the ther-
mometer registering 231 below zero
The coolest in Miiwau ee in the history
Of the weather bur-. was in 1875 when
1t was rs 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.
New Richmond, Wis, reports all cold
weather records in that region broken
by temperature OF 46 to IS below zero.
The New Richmond Roller Mills COM
pany's water power canal being frozen
over for the first tine in its history
At Manitowoc all the public schools
were closed on account of the cold and
business was at standstill practically.
GAINESVILLE also reports schools closed
Low temperatures from other points are
reported as follows: Mondovi, IS to 40
below; Portage, So below; Rhinelander,
33 below; Plymouth, 80 below; Plain
field, IS below, and Waultesha, Is below.
Rivers Frozen.
Keokuk, Ia, Jan. 26-Both the Mis-
closed, frozen almost solid The ther-
mometer was 8 b ow ard falling.
There is no further dareer 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 w'ien the ice breaks in the
springs. Flood conditions are expected
to be more serious than last summer.
The blizzard which hroAe over Des
Moines and vicinity Sunday morning
sending the mercury to 10 below zero
the coolest of the winter, was still
i raging Monday. From all parts of the
state come stories CT extreme cold
some places reporting from IS to %
degrees below.
Coolest of re Winter.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Jan. 2G-The
official Thermometer in the weather
bureau here registered 93 degrees be.
low zero at six a. m. Ills is the coolest
of the winter. The cold is reported as
general throughout western Michigan
Specials from the state reporl 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 bavine
more trouble than ever before, several
spending the night in drifts between
Detroit and jackson. The passengers
were driven to nearby towns.
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 result of the extreme cold. The
weather bureau thermometer in this city
registered degrees below zero Monday
In St. Louis.
st. Louis, Jan. 26.-The blizzarf
caused general cessation of outdoo,
work at the Worlds Fair grounds for tho
first time since last winter. Contractors
on the fair grounds are apprehensiye
that the sudden melting of the snow may
interfere seriously with their buildings
by making the ground unstable. This
is especially true on the Belgian build.
ing, where one-half of great dome is in
the air, supported by a temporary tower
laid on stills on the surface OF the ground
The sliding of these stills by the softenine
OF the ground, the contractors fear may
result in the collapse of the steel already
in place on the DONE.
Open Shop MT Des Moines.
Tho boycott is dead issue in the set
Element of labor difficulties in Des
Moines. An organization has been per-
fected Of all the largest manufacturers
wholesale merchants. jobbersand retail
merchants for the object OF mutual in
surance against the boycott.