Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-05
eoord Thus Far is Three Below Zero,
Occurring on Eighth o. January.
E is MOVING 10 the SOUTHLAND
No Prediction is Gads as to Duration or
Degree of severity.
MILD MONTHS AcctSTuATls THE CHANGE
lee and Coal Men Take Heart ~
Turn In Conditions-sunerinR
at the Minimum An
Omaha.


bureau sent out the following special cold
wave forecast: NJ
The severe cold wave that covers the
western states today Will sweep southwark
to the gulf coast tonight and eastward
over the Atlantic states and tue northern
nalf of Florida Monday and Monday night.
fne weather bureau rohisnt Announced
north to Manitoba. including the states
of Kansas, NeDrasKa, MISSOURI, Iowa. Min
nesota, Wisconsin, upper Michigan. Colo
RADIO. Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, western
Tennessee and Arkansas. Although the
inaications are that the freezing weather
will extend to the northern half OF Florida.
the weather bureau off1clals say that from
present indications they do not look Tor
cold enough weather In :hat section tu
damage the orange crop
Some OF the low temperatures reported
were the following:
At Duluth IA degrees below, at White
IN various parts OF the Michigan peninsula
In portions of Oklahoma the temperature
fell to lS above zero and at Abilene. Tex.
IT was - degrees above.
This vicinity will probably have the Sc
verest weather of the winter tonight.
said Weather Forecastet Welsh Sunday
afternoon.
Readers of The Bee will recall that
Colonel Welsh announced at 9:4o Satur-
day IA advent of cold wave and hoisted
| his flags and that at 10:11 the Careful OBJ
server proclaimed that flock OF geese
had just passed through our city" en-
route for the north. The Oldest Inhab-
| liant who has known Colonel Welsh longer
than any iother man in Omaha, at the
| time deprecated the geese's apparent de-
! hance of the weather man. and yesterday
he said that far he knew the geese
had not been seen coming back. Thus
far everything seems to be in favor Of the
! grounding.
Accommodating a good quantity Of mo-
! mentum from the strenuous wind which
ushered it in Saturday, the cold wave got
: down to business yesterday. its best trade
7, being at 10 O'Clock Sunday morning, when
It was able to register four degrees above
| zero At 0 a. M. II; was fvei at II. sia
and at last night. seven, zero not having
| been. reached. = I, tss t n ~ "A s.s3s ssss
}j.gr-p Ssss wsssf snr s-rDl,srts ssts
Colonel Welsh ofiered no prediction - 30
4 tho duration or degree of severity Of this
| cold period: all he had to, say yesterday
| was il probably will be tho severest OF the
| winter. And that suggests that UP to last
! night the coolest this winter was three
degrees below zero, January s. January
% showed one degree below zero. which
was next to the coldest day. So. after all,
as compared with twenty-nine or thirty be-
low during that memorable cold spell of
| 19O5-when the legislature was In session.
the record is not hard one to beat, but
people generally were talking about the
weather yesterday, feeling II the more be-
cause of the extremely mild winter so far.
Ice men and coal men. naturally. are not
cast down over the turn in the weather.
Ice men, though with little time on which
to count, were beginning to place their or
dars wit ice facforiaa in larpa uun1i,Ars
fearing no natural product for the season.
and even yet they have no assurance from
Colonel Welsh, for he has not said that
this cold spell won't be brief and about the
last.
No reports of extreme suffering from the
cold were received at the Offices OF charity
last night or yesterday. The misfortune
OF that kind is at the minimum in prosper
Gus Omaha, but agencies are available to
care for all who need and deserve atten-
tion. --y a.
High Wind fn Kansas.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. Ain the twenty
four hours since last night the tempera-
ture in this part of the southwest dropped
from 40 to 60 degrees, with close TO zero
/, weather reported at Trenton. Mo-, and
Wichita Kan. tonight. A drop to below
zero is predicted for western Missouri por-
Indian Territory by morning. A light snow
, fell today and was driven by n high north
wind that from wichita south into Okla
, homa and northern Indian Territory be-
came a gale. In Oklahoma the wind
reached a velocity of forty-eight miles an
hour. At Kansas City and Topeka tonight
the temperature was 10 degrees above zero.
Blizzard in Black Hills.
| GTTTDnIG G Eah A TTai.
gram.)-The first real storm Of the winter
continued here yesterday afternoon and
last night. Some snow fell accompanied
by high winds, making blizzard The
} mercury was down to 8 below last night
the lowest of the season. Adyices indicate
severe storm throughout the Black Hills
and IS thought to have extended out Ia
cattle ranges. II was cIea- anc cold to-
day.
Ice In Nemaha River.
TECUMsEH, Neb. Feb. l-(Special y
This section was visited by decided
I change in the weather during last night
. Up to that time the weather had been very
warm, especially faVoring the farmers in.
stitute which was In session in this citS
n last week. Last night cold wave pre-.
. vailed from the north and there was de-
b cided change in the temperature. Ther,
e is about six or seven inches OF ice on this
y Nemaha river. and the continued warn
e weather was threatening that but the ioea
+ ice dealers now OF the opinion ther,
e will be a good crop by the first Of another
week.
blizzard I'm Texas.
n AUSTIN. Tex. heb 4--A blizzard swept
!. all through central and southern Texas to
!, day. Tonight at s o'clock the mercury reg
j: istered twenty-five degrees. a drop of forty
J. three degrees since 4 o'clock heav,
!, rainfall accompanied the norther.
: snowstorin an dis mr..
EVANSVILLE, Ind. Feb f.--The heav
lest snowstorm OF the season is ragfn,
IN ! foniRht i'm southern Ipliapa ana r-asto.,