Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-05
BITTER COLD WEATHER
East and West in the Grip of
Storm King.
MERCURY BELOW ZERO
Lowest Record for Years at Many
Places.
CHARITABLE HOMES TAXED
New York Homeless Huddle Around
Fires in the Streets-Heavy Sleet
Storm Out West.
CHARITABLE HOMES TAXED
Special Dispatch to The Star.

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express from the lake region with Il bun
die of warm weather consigned to Fore
caster Emery went all astray last night
and got sidetracked, nobody knows just
wave arrived from Greenland and the
mercury took long cold plunge. Result
Ter, weather and the coldest day Of the
year.
The cold wave made very clever entry.
hitting the town after midnight, when
every one was tucked in for the night
At that time the bureau reported de-
srees. From then on the mercury kept
dropping until Just before dawn it hovered
above zero.
The thermometers in the streets all got
below zero, registering around . degrees
below for the most part at am. The
weather bureau instrument caught at l
degree above, a new cold record for the
winter.
After that the weather moderated
little before the rising sun, and at
O. clock the official figure was 4 degrees
above. which is certainly "old-fashioned
weather; but the air was clear and crisp,
and the raw biting effect of yesterday
and the other cold days recently was abb
sent.
The lowest temperature ever recorded
by the local weather bureau was oe-
srees below zero. and that mas neen
reached only four times in the last 'hir'S-
three years. ,
The city lodging house and the covered
pier OF the charities bureau were over
crowded with homeless men iast night
and early today when those Wl.hou, sue.
looms. many of them built fires IN the
streets along the Bowery and huddleo
around them to keep from freezing.
The record at New York was beaten
little at Boston. where 1t was . degrees
below at o clock.
At Albany a panic seized the thermOme-
ters in the night and 10 degrees DeIoW WIS
the figure they registered in the worst OF
the bear movement.
Thirty-one Below at Binghamton.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BINGHAMTON. n. Y, February o.
With the official thermometer registering
81 below zero this morning and others
still lower in various exposed places. blng-
hamton had the coldest weather since
January. 1904 when the lowest 'ehpeia
ture was % below.
AZ Below in saragota County.
Special Dispatch to The Star
SARATOGA, n. Y. February "a low
temperature record for the winter was
made in this village and the lower Adiron-
dacks this morning. Registrations OF -
degrees below zero were attained here
and Of AZ degrees below in other parts OF
the county.
Froze in Adirondack Storm.
sARANAC LAKE, n. Y, February o.
Braying an Adirondack blizzard and
Temperature of 30 degrees below zero,
workman employed at Paul Smiths start
ed last Saturday night to walk eight miles
to his home in Derrick. where his wife
lay seriously i'll. Word was received mere
last night that the man was found frozen
To death by a searching party that started
out upon learning he had not reached ms
destination Friends had warned him that
il was suicidal to attempt the journey. put
he answered that he must spend SUNDAY
comforting his Ill wife. He succumbed
before he had covered half the distance
Forty Below at Watertown.
wATERTOWN, N. Y. February 5.-The
severest weather of the winter was ex
perfenced in this city yesterday, ther-
mometers registering 30 below. At New
ton Falls and other Adirondack points ~
below was reported.
Passenger Train Snowbound.
FLINT. Mich, February 5.-The Pere
Marquette passenger train which left here
Saturday afternoon for Fostoria and in
termediate points on the Flint river di-
vision of the road was snowbound for
forty-eight hours two miles this side of
otter lake. The twenty passengers on
the train tramped through the deep snow
to neighboring farmhouses, where they
were given shelter and food over Sunday
Eighteen Below at Toronto.
TORONTO, Ont. February 5.-At the
observatory yesterday the thermometer
registered Is below zero. the coldest in
thirteen years. At many points in the
suburbs the mercury showed "a.