The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-02-17
MAJORITY OF THE FATALITIES
ARE REPORTED FROM THE
SOUTHWEST.
$4,000 CATTLE LOST on RANGE
LOSSES TO CATTLEMEN ARE
THE HEAVIEST SINCE THE
BLIZZARD OF 1896.

chicago, FeD. 10. - NOC during the
last six years has the equal of the
present cold weather been expert
enced in the West, and in many
places no such low temperatures have
been recorded since the establish
ment of the weather bureau. The
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and
from the Rocky mountains to the At
lantic. The line of zero weather is
about in the latitude of Memphis, but
all through the South freezing wealth
er is reported. In the North the mer.
curry has registered anywhere from
zero to As degrees, below, the latter
mark being scored at Richland Cen
ter, Wis. Trains everywhere in the
West and Northwest are from two to
twelve hours late, and because of the
packing of the fine snow in the cuts,
it is expected that it
Will Be Several Days
before the roads are able to restore
the schedule time even if the weather
moderates.
Although details are lacking it is
estimated that about score of PEG.
pie have lost their lives, the majority
of the fatalities being in the South
west, where distances between houses
and towns are great and shelter hard
to find.
The loss of cattle on the ranges,
particularly on those lying in the
northern part of the southern tier of
states, will be very heavy. w. E,
Bolton, secretary of the Oklahoma
Live Stock association, declared last
night that the live stock losses in the
present cold weather will be the
greIsest since the great blizzard of
1896. He places the number of head
Lost on the Range
in Western Kansas. Western Okla
| bona and the Panhandle of Texas ut
$4,000 head. Further north, in Ne.
braska and the Dakotas and Montana,
the stockmen are better prepared to
| shelter their stock, their cattle are
better Injured 10 cold, and it is not ex-
pected that their losses will be any
thing near as heavy as those on the
| ranges further to the south.
Officially speaking yesterday was
the coolest day in 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
In the opinion of pedestrians on .he
! street, and according to the showing
| oof unofficial thermometers, the gov
| eminent thermometer was anywhere
from to - degrees too warm. The
| official record was 10 below zero,
while all over the city temperatures
Of 20 to 25 We're common, while in
some of the suburbs as low as 33 be-
low zero was touched.
| Many Are Frostbitten.
| There were no deaths reported in
the city proper. but the police were
compelled to care for numberless
frost-bites throughout the day.
The severe cold has brought upon
the South a renewal Of all the
troubles visited upon it by the recent
storm of sleet which has demoralized
railroad traffic and almost destroyed
telegraphic communication in some
sections for the greater part of the
week. A cold wave has spread with
great speed all over the South, &C.
companied by heavy snowfalls in Mis-
sissippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
Railroad traffic is seriously hindered
by the snow all through the central
part of Georgia, and in the central
and northern parts Of Mississippi the
tie-up of the railroads was yesterday
almost complete.
A general warming up was noticea-
BILE last night in the Northwest, st.
Paul showing a temperature of be.
low as compared with Is below TWEEN
ty-fOur hours earlier.