Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-02-16
DIED BY THOUSANDS
Western Prairies Strewn with Car
casses Of Frozen Cattle.
MANY PEOPLE VICTIMS OF COLD.
Trains at Various Places in the West
stuck i'm snOwdrifts for Hours
and Passengers Suffered
PanEs of Hunger.

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 13.-The max
imum of the coolest spell Kansas City
has experienced since 1899 was reached
this morning when the mercury stood
at 20 below zero. 1t had stood at to
Is below zero since seven o'clock Sun
day morning Reports from Kansas
and Missouri show similar frigidity
and great suffering among the poor.
At ottawa Kan, there is a coal fam
|. inc
Twenty trains due in Kansas City
I&8s night are laid out CHSthe westernI
Kansas prairies and there is little
traffic in and out of Kansas City. A
train on the Rock Island was stuck in
q snowdrift at Altavista, Kan, for 20
hours. Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, was 3
passenger on the train. & ~
Prairien strewn wIth Dead stock.
Denver. Col, Feb. 1S.-Ins southern
Colorado and northern New Mexico
the worst storm since 1886 is raging.
In New Mexico the storm reached the
proportions Of blizzard and great
damage to stock is reported. Railroad
men report the prairies along the line
Of the Colorado & Southern strewn
with the carcasses Of dead sheep and
cattle. At Amarillo. Tex, the Their
mometer dropped to 10 below rezo, Fol-
som, N. M, IS below and in the south
ern part Of the territory, where cold
weather is q rarity, the zero mark
was reached at certain points. The
cold snap which has prevailed on the
eastern slope Of the mountains In Col
,orado for several days became intense,
the thermometer dropping to 27 below
zero in Denver. The cold also pene-
trated to the western slope and Tel
luride reports 20 beloy. At Fort Col
Inns. in the northern section Of Colo
RADIO. q degrees below zero was regis
tered and at Monument. on the divide
south of Colorado Springs, 1t was rs
below. At Twin Lakes, near Lead
willie. az below was registered. In
wyoming the cold has not abated and
much loss to live stock, 1t is feared,
will result.
NeRro PerIshed at Guthrie.
Guthrie. Ok, Feb. 13.-Oklahoma has
lust suffered from the coolest weather
in many years. The temperature was
five below zero.
Samuel Washington, colored, was
frozen to death here during the night,
being found on a load Of wood.
Several additional deaths Of people
from exposure are reported. Henry
Bali. a farm hand, was found frozen to
death a few miles south Of Ponca City.
He started to drive to farm three
miles south Of Ponca City, where he
was working, but was overcome by
the cold and fell from his wagon be-
fore he reached the farm house. His
neck was broken by the fall. At Cor
sican. Frank Brown wandered from
home and perished. cattlemen here
state that range stock will suffer the
greatest loss in years and some place
fhe loss as high as 80 per cent on the
ranges In Beaver and Woodward eoun-
ties. Great anxiety "a felt for the In
dian tribes, who are in no condition
40 withstand the storm and experts
say that dozens Of them will die as 4
result Of the blizzard.
Trains Out Of ST. JOSEPH AnauIied.
81 Joseph. No, Feb. 1S.-sunday
nieht was the coolest Of the winter.
thsrmometers registering 20 degrees
hsiow sero. An trains op the Crnslnn
ana the1Chariton pranehel =. ~ -.
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fticaro Great Western has had no
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