The Saint Paul globe., 1905-02-02
ICY BLASTS SWEEP
OVER NORTHWEST
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The poor suffered more than anyone
else, OF course. Be Ii hot or cold, the
poor, as a class, are the fall guys"
Tor the major share of all the discomfort
that is floating around. So it was that
yesterday numerous calls came to the
relief society and the charitable insti-
tutions for coal, wood and warmer
clothing. Suffering for want of food
was forgotten in the more acute suffer
ings coming through want of coal.
1t was too cold yesterday to cut ice,
and 1t was necessary in almost every
instance where the ice men have been
reaping their frosty harvests, to en-
ureiy suspend operations. Where ice
is being cut, however, ii was necessary
to blanket the ice Immediately after it's
being taken out, that it might not, un-
der exposure to the fierce elements con-
tract to the crumbling point.
The railroads were heavy sufferers
on account of the weather While
train service was not seriously ham,
pered, every passenger train arriving
In the city or leaving was late, some
very late, some scarcely at all, but
every one to some extent behind
schedule. The principal damage done
the railroads was in the destruction
of perishable freight caught on the
road by the cold snap. The full extent
of the loss in this direction is hard to
Difference in Thermometers
While the staid old government
thermometers worked steadily onward,
telling the people how cold they really
were, the weather began early in the
day to put out of commission a very
great many giddy young thermometers
whose principal aim in life was to tell
the frost bitten how nice Ell Haystacko
cigars were or what wonders could be
worked out in a few minutes with DR..
Fakir's famous pain killer. the mer-
curry was sent flying down in these SO
fast that it never stopped when It
reached the bottom, just went right
on down to the sidewalk
Chauffeurs who were so fortunate as
to get started in their devil wagons at
all and then left them for a moment to
make purchase invariably returned
to find that the gasoline tank was
frozen up and there was nothing do
ing in the locomotion line except to
walk or help swell the size of the
gross earnings tax.
The gross earnings tax was mate
rally helped by the day. Everybody
rode in the street cars that had a
nickel but no carriage. They rode most
absurdly short distances because they
did not care to argue with the cold,
and it was a rushing business that the
Firemen, battling with two directly
opposite elements, heat and cold, at
the st. Joseph's church fire and several
smaller blaZes, suffered intensely, and
the thought of what exposure a big
fire would enjoin was enough through
out the day to make the hardest vet
eran of the department shudder.
Withal II was the frostiest day of
February that has initiated the frosty
month to St Paul in many a year. The
normal temperature for the month. as
compiled by Observer w. E. Oliver
from the records in the weather bu-
reau extending over period of thirty
four years, is 16 degrees below zero
The coolest temperature for Febru-
airy day in the period mentioned was
80 degrees below zero, that was in 1888,
and this year is going to endanger the
big blizZard's laurels if il keeps on
The warmest February day in the
records was 81 degrees above zero, in
1885. And February. 1904, was the
coolest February in the lot, having
mean temperature of degrees above
zero.
More Cold Coming
BUTTE, Mont, Feb 1.-Reports
from throughout the state tonight in
dicate that the lowest temperatures of
the winter thus far will be reached.
The cold wave is sweeping Montana
from the east, Miles City tonight re-
porting 80 degrees below zero, with so
expected before morning. Other East
ern Montana points report tonight
from Is to &c points below