Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-06
TWELVE BELOW ZERO
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Nebraska, the depth over almost the en-
tire state being increased by a fall which
began at an early hour and which gave
promise Of continuing several hours. More
than a foot of snow now covers the greater
part of the state. The temperature in Lin
coin this morning was 10 degrees below
zero.
A cold wave followed the snow storm
over the northwest resulting in the coldes.
night Of the winter. II was % below zero
in Norfolk.
ST. PAUL, Feb 5.-The street therm0me-
ters today registered from p to 80 below
zero. according to the exposure of the In
struments.
KANSAS CITY. Feb. 5-During the night
degrees below zero was recorded here
and 4 degrees below at Topeka, the lowest
temperature in this part of the southwest
during the winter. Today there was u
rapid rise in the temperature, with but
little snow falling. Trains were stil de-
layed today.
MILWAUKEE,. Wis. Feb. 5-Very little
snow has fallen in Wisconsin during the
past twenty-four hours. and what little
delay there has been to train service was
due to zero weather, which has prevailed
since Sunday throughout the state. The
temperature In Milwaukee today ranged be-
tween 2 and 10 degrees above zero. The
coolest section in the state today was at
Mellon, on the Wisconsin Central railway
where the temperature registered 80 below
zero, Ashland reported 20 and Abbottsford
20 below. .sH
CHEYENNE, Wyo, Feb. 5.-(Special Tel
egram. )-Charles Brunnell and wife and
LII. u Il. Atal.
slide at Kirwin mining camp, in Big Horn
county. Wyoming tonight. Several persons
were injured and much property destroyed.
The people were asleep when the avalanche
swept down upon them.
Fierce Gale I'm Atlantic States.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-For more than
twenty-four hours New York has been in
the grip of fierce northeast Snow storm.
Ten inches of snow fell in the twenty-four
hours ending at a m, equalling the
amount within any similar period for
several years
In Broadway and all the avenues ana
cross streets containing surface car lines
the snow was piled six feet high between
the car tracks and the sidewalks but by
hard work with SNOW plows and shovels
most OF the surface lines were kept in OPP
GRAFTON, though at a snails pace Most
OF the elevated lirles in Manhattan were
run on their usual schedules this morning,
but those in remote sections of Brooklyn
were badly delayed.
Through trains and suburbans locals on
nearly all the railroads were greatly de-
layed. Harbor traffic moved very slowly.
An army OF snow shovelers was at work
on the streets today.
CHATHAM. Mass. Feb. 5'-A binding
snowstorm. driven by a sixty mile-an-hour
northeast gale, is making serious weather
conditions. Until observations can be taken
little will be learned of the, fate OF the
shipping which left Boston yesterday
bound south around Cape Cod.
HIGHLAND LIGHT. Mass, Feb. 5.-The
worst storm of the winter prevailed here
today, a gale of sixty miles an hour with
a thick snow. tieing up all traffic on land
and sea.
BOSTON, Feb. 5.-The trafic OF Greater
Boston is seriously hampered by the storm
which developed last night and today traffic
is badly broken into by the storm.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb. b.-The Wild
snowstorm, which began last night and
continued today with steadily increasing
fury, had a disastrous effect on trafnc OF
steam lines and trolley roads all over the
state. Not for several winters have steam
roads been so tied up as they were today.
Deep Snow In Chicago.
CHICAGO. Feb. Sup to s o'clock to-
night there had been a steady fall of
snow for the past twenty-four hours in
Chicago. and as a result there is now more
snow In the city than for the past two
years.
With the temperature only few points
above zero and a high wind prevailing,
the snow has been piling up In high drifts.
greatly delaying trains.
The traction companies in the city put
on large forces of men and teams In an
EFFORT 10 keep their cars, moving, but the
service during the day was only about
half what II is under normal conditions.