Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-05
THE NIGHT
 WAS COLD.
Waterbury Shivered
 and Froze Up.

1u tuner kl6CeS.skE neat
 All the Oldest and Pre-
 vious Records Regis
 tered 40 Below.
 After holding undisputed sway for several days the cold spell was delivs cred a knockout blow by that old warrior. Sol, this morning. As the sun peeped forth this morning and saw that the cold spell remained unabat- ed, he must have taken pity upon suffering humanity. SoliloquixinR. he must have thought that four or i've days of excessive cold weather were sufficient even for Water5uxy people, who are now accustomed to the extraordinary. He Immediately set to work and his work soon made itself felt. The thermometers, w l,iGh had registered from 12 to 20 duaresss below zero at T o'clock this morning, gradually arose until at 12 o'clock ik registered nearly 20 degrees al,oxo zero. What had promised to be anr other fiercely cold day turned out tn be an ideal one.
 Last night was one of tfe c0ldasf nights in many years. Tne thorrpon3 eter registered from 9 to 2S degr6es below zero At Webster's pharnncx 1t was 3 below. degrees lower tliau the night before. At the west en{ car barns it was % below. Theee were the extremes GeneralIy tb8 thermometer registered from 14 to M below in various parts of the city. Austin Pierpont of East Farms statad that it was the coldest night which he had experienced in twenty.one years.
 New Haven, Jan 5.-This was tha coldest morning here in a number Of years, the mercury falling to 6 degrees. below zero. according to the official reading of the weather bureau station This temperature held from 10 o'clock last night until 8 this morning. when slight rise was noted. In the last thirty-one; years there have been seven days colder than tilss. the coldesf hay% ing been January 80. 1878, when tlae mercury went to IA below. Ire last previous colder day was February II. 1899, when 1t was 9 below. Trhina on the New York. New Haven and Hart. ford railroad were avain delayed to- day on accountsof the cold weather and the consequent difficulty in making steam"
 The extreme cold put the local sta~ ton of the weather bureau temporarily out of commi-sson to-day as far as is- suing a forecast was concerned. On account of telegraph wire trouble thcs station had received no reports from other points on which 10 base predic- ton. and MT Tarr. the observer said there was little prosnect that he would be ah'e 10 iss,Ie any forecast.
 The trouble with the wire wae asld to be due to what is known among llra- men as s4weather-hreak' or the gnan~ ping o@ connections with cros~-tfes ana conserpent grnundino, on account n< contraction from cold Long distArce telephone lines as we'll as telegr4u& wires suffered from this cause.
 Danbury, Jan 5.--Not in the memory of the oldest tnhabitant nor in tho pages of the most ancient diary avail able is there any record of such cold weather as that experienced by thi& city this morning. At 8 o'clock thex~ mometers about the city averaged 20 degrees below zero. Two bout4 earlier than that time the mercury went from 21 to 26 degrees below.
 Woodbury, Jan 5.--Never within tho memory of the oldest inhabitant of this village has cold of such intensity as that of to-day been experienced here All along the Pomperaug valley tenn peratures of from B to, 40 below are ported. The lowest previous recora was in January, twenty years ago. when the mercury went down to 21 below.
 Winsted, Jan 5.-The temperature reached the lowest point last night and to-day in ten years, according to locai weather records. In Norfolk 1t ranged from IS to g deglS7s below, and ik this borough from 12 to 15 belows plumbers were in great demand.
 Norwich. Jan ,5.-Some unusually low thermometer readings were reports ed in this section today. One ins ru ment on Broadway in particularly exposed place registered 40 below. while other readings in different parts of the city varied from 20 to g below. In Preston City, . suburb, 1t was 30 below.
 Lakeville. Jan 5.-At this morning the mercury stood at 34 degrees below zero. according to several thermono eters. Lime Rock reported 31 below Salisbury B below.
 East Berlin. Jan 5.--The thermoua- eters at the American Bridge Co.'S plant in East Berlin registered from 33 to 46 below zero at 9 a. m., at 9 a. m. theS stood 26 below.
 Naugatuck, Jan 5.-At 4:30 this