The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-04
Kansas Visited by a Winters
Storm Today.
Railroads Report That Whole
State Is Affected.
SNOW IN THE WEST.
Storm Grows More Severe as
Day Advances.
Decided Drop in Temperature
Throughout the State.

OAO OUuCOs
Sidewalks and buildings are covered
today with coat of sleet which began
falling last night and continued all day
today. 1t is declared at the local office
of the weather bureau that tonight the
sleet will turn to snow and thus the
first real snow of the year will be re-
corded. Sleet is general all over the
state save in the western part where
the snow has succeeded it. 1t is de-
clared a three inch blanket of snow
covers the western part of Kansas. Ac-
cording to the weather bureau snow
fell there all last night and this morn
ing, and the snow is headed this way.
1t is declared the sleet which Is the
advance guard of the snow storm, Will
reach southeastern Kansas some time
late today or early tonight.
Yesterday snow was falling over part
of Nebraska, idaho, Montana. Color
ado, Utah and the northwest. The storm
came in Z v shape with the point near
Wichita. The two Dakotas and Min
nesota were also inside the v. The
sleet which fell last night and today
is declared to be the advance guard
of that storm
Railroad companies report sieet gen.
orally all over their lines in Kansas
and ~uoW in the western part of the
with the transmission of messages nor
the movement of trains. No alarm is
felt at the local offices over the storm.
With the sleet came a gradual but
decided drop in temperature. From 80
degrees last night the mercury slid
down to "A degrees at o'clock this
morning. At o'clock it clin ped one
degree but dropped back to the "A
mark within an hour 1t is believed
that this will be about the minimum
hcsr,n o1-af1 II for the nraSnnf Geld smell
unless other circumstances arise to in
duence the situation. 1t IS not beheVed
the temperature will go high enough to
permit of a melting of the sleet and
the snow which is to follow, and there
will be less slush than has been the
case for the last few days.
The forecast sent out today is snow
tonight and Sunday and colder in the
southeast portion of the state tonight
A high barometric pressure in the
Northwest which is moving this way
and an area of low pressure over the
Texas Panhandle and New Mexico is
alleged to be responsible for the storm
If the weather man Is right in his
prediction of snow for tonight and Sun
day it will be the first real snow of the
season and 1t is already late for this
snow to arrive. Usually in this dis
trict snow falls by November 49, This
year there has been but one little sklft
of snow, however. and as there IS al
ways snow before Christmas III Kan
sas it is UP to the weather man to get
busy and bring on some white moisture.
There was thunderstorm shortly
after noon today which is meaningless
save that 1t indicates that the weather
is warmer a mile high than 1t is in
Topeka. The temperature VIII drop TO
20 degrees by tomorrow morning, 1t Is
said, but will not go lower.
The wind is blowing Is miles an hour
from the northwest. The river here
stands at 15 feet. a rise of one and
nine-tenths feet since yesterday morn
ing. According to the local weather
officials it will not go much higner.
The precipitation of today and last
night will not affect the stream The
water is still six feet below the foot
Following are the hourly tempera-
lures today:
o'clock. ii o'clock IA
O'Clock. ......25 II O'Clock. %
o'clock. .......23 1 o'clock. 23
10 O'Clock. .......24 2 o'clock. ..23
The precipitation since o'clock yes
terday amounts to "A of an inch.
Snow at Garden City.
Garden City, Kan. Dec. 4.-Two inch
es of snow has fallen here during the
past IL hours and there are no indica-
lions that the storm is at an end.
stock as a rule is well sheltered and in
most instances provisions have been
made for a storm which is expected at
this season of the year.
The storm will not cause the sugar
factory to be shut down as thousands
of tons of beets have been sliced and
will be delivered directly from the
fields to the factory.
SIeet in Wichita.
Wichita, Kan. Dec. A stinging
sleet driven by a. brisk north wind, is
falling in southern Kansas today.
The temperature is lowering around
20 degrees above zero.
u. p. Bridge at Manhattan Totters.
Manhattan, Kan, Dec. 4.-There
has been but little change in the con-
dition of the Blue river at this point
during the past twelve hours, although
- is possible that it is a little lower
than when its highest point was reach
I'd Friday. The greater portion of the
waters of the stream are flowing
through the new bed made by the
flood waters east of the city.
The temporary bridge which was
built across this channel which is now
IN reality the main stream by the
Union Pacific railroad is so weakened
that it has been condemned as unsafe
7 he Union Pacific has been compelled
10 use the Rock Island tracks east
II ON here. A freight train passed over
It last evening as a test for the pas
.enger which was following closely
After an inspection by the Union Pa
c.fic officials the bridge was con-
4 emned as unsafe and the passenger
train was routed over the Rock Island
tracks as have all trains since that
time.