The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-14
FROM CANADA TO
GULF OF MEXICO
From Rocky Mountains to the Allan
tic Coast.
COLD WAVE IS GENERAL
MANY PERSONS REPORTED FRO
ZEN TO DEATH.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1S.-Not during the
u last six years has the equal Of the
present cold weather been en-
perienced in the west and in many
places no such low temperatures have
been recorded since the establishment
OF the weather bureau.
The cold wave extends from Canad a
to the Gulf of Mexico and from the
Rocky mountains to the Atlantic.
Freezing weather is reported all
through the south. In the north the
mercury has registered all the way
from zero to As degrees below zero, the
latter mark being scored at Richland
Center, Wis.
Many Lives Lost.
Trains everywhere from the west and
northwest are anywhere from two TO
twelve hours late and from the pack
ing of the snow in the cuts il is ex-
pected that it will be several days be-
fore the roads are able to revive the
schedule time of trains. Several peo-
pie have lost their lives, the majority
OF the fatalities being in the south
west. where the distances between
houses and towns are great
The loss of cattle on the ranges. par
ticularly on those lying in the north
ern part Of the tier Of states. will be
very heavy w r.. Bolton, secretary
of the Oklahoma Live Stock assOcia-
lion, declared tonight that live stock
losses in the present cold weather VIII
be the greatest since the great blizzard
OF 1896
Loss on the Ranges.
He places the number of head lost on
the range in Western Kansas. Western
Oklahoma and the Panhandle of
Texas at 10000 head. Further north.
in Nebraska and the Dakotas and
Montana
prepared to shelter their stock. their
cattle are being sheltered from the cold
and II is not expected their losses will
be anything near so heavy as those on
the ranges further. to the south.
Officially speaking, this was the cold
est day i'm Chicago since Feb. 9, 1899.
when the mercury registered % degrees
below zero. which stands as the record
for cold weather in the records Of the
local weather bureau.
Thought it Was Colder.
In the opinion of pedestrians on the
street and according to the showing of
unofficial thermometers, the govern
ment thermometer was anywhere from
to II degrees too warm. The ohicia!
record was 10 below while ali over the
city temperatures of from 20 to % We're
common, while in some of the suburbs
as low as 80 below zero was touched
A ~ CLOCK tonight the weather
bureau issued statement to the effect
that il was 6 below zero, while on the
street is was II below. All through the
day the bitter cold was intensified by =
wind that blew from the northwest at
q rate OF thirty miles an hour There
were no deaths reported in the city
proper, but the police were compelled
to care for numberless frost-bites
throughout the day.
At the water cribs in Lake Michigan
the workmen who are engaged in keen
ing the intakes clear from ice had =
desperate time OF it. The mercury was
80 below. il being impossible for them
tc endure the cold and wind for a long
period at one time.
Conditions in the South.
The severe cold has brought upon
the south d renewal of all the troubles
visited upon ii by the recent storm of
sleet which has demoralized railroad
traffic and almost destroyed Geographic
communication I'm some parts OF that
section. The cold spread with great
speed all over the south accompanied
by heavy snow falls in some states.
Railroad traffic is seriously hindered
by snow all through the central part of
Georgia and i'm the central and north
ern parts OF Mississippi the tie up of
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