Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-31
Severe Cold Wave to Give Way
to Warmer Conditions.
MERCURY GOING UPWARD
Death Follows in Wake of Blizzard
in Western Pennsylvania.
STATIONARY IN THE SOUTH
But Relief Is Promised by the
Weather Bureau-Frigidity
About Over.

The cold wave which had Washington
and vicinity i'm its icy grip for more than
two days is being dissipated. Much
warmer conditions will greet the in
coming of the New Year tomorrow. The
temperature began TO rise slowly this
morning and at 1 O'Clock this afternoon
1t was degrees higher than IL was at
the same hour yesterday.
With the change will come warm. winds
from. the south. succeeding the frigid
blasts that have been coming down from
the north. 1t is probable there will be
thaw tomorrow which will make dis
agreeable conditions under foot.
Several private thermometers. which
their owners claimed registered the actual
outs de cold, gave unusual indications AT
O'Clock yesterday morning when the
record temperature of the season was
reached. An instrument in Rock Creek
Park gave a reading of zero. while the
mercury in one in the southeast suburbs
went down TO one degree below zero.
In East and South. ;.
The extreme cold spell which prevailed
in almost the entire east and south is
on the verge of being broken, according
TO today's government forecast, and b.
tonight the temperature will have greatly
moderated. Warmer tonight and Satur-
day is the general prediction for the two
sections. An exception was noted along
the great lakes. where stormy weather is
the usual occurrence at this season of
the year.
The cold wave in the south continues
today, according to the Geographic ad-
vices received at the weather bureau. In
Florida the temperature was below freeZ-
ing during the morning, but here also
the forecaster predicted 4 moderation be-
fore night.
Continued absence of extremely cold
weather for the west and middle west is
predicted.
Cold in Chicago.
CHICAGO, December 31--The month
closing will go into Chicago's records a.
its coolest December except those OF 1873
and 1908. The present winters low mark.
z degrees below zero, was reached at
am. yesterday, but does not stand as the
years record. 10 degrees below having
been recorded OH January 81.
Conditions in Florida.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. December 31.-The
cold wave is central today over Florida.
with Tampa showing a temperature Of
o6-o degrees colder than yesterday-and
Jacksonville, %. slight rise. 1t is not
believed that any damage will be done
the orange trees, as the SAP at present IS
low I'm the trees and freeze In the win
ter is seldom as much to be feared a.
a cold snap when the trees are budding
Warmer weather is promised for Florida
tomorrow. The ice in the Ohio Is stall
holding but probably WILL break within
two days, as the weather is moderatinG
very perceptibly.
Billiards. Heavy Toll.
PITTSBURG, December 31.-"king
Zero took large toll In western Pennsyl-
vania yesterday and last night, many per
sons dying directly and indirectly from
the effects of blizzard which for the
past two days has swept the Allegheny
mountains and the head of the Ohio val
ley.
state, county and municipal authorities
as the cali for assistance from charitable
institutions and bureaus has been eN-
II aor dinarly large. the relief supply being
far INADEQUATE TO the demand. From the
western part OF the state come reports
of unprecedented low mercurial records.
In Greater r ttsburg the temperature
reached three degrees below Zero this
being a record for the past fifteen years
for this time of the year.
At Irwin, Pa, the thermometer record
ed A Observation-Disclosures mark. the
coolest December 30 for ten years. At
"a Idest day for e.even years. and Con-
nellsville reported eight. degrees below.
List of the Dead.
4 partial list of the persons dead due
to exposure during the past two days
follows:
Michael Helavez, thirty years old. Pitts
burg.
Mrs .alpsie HARRISON, eighty years old
Connellsvilie
Edward Allison brakeman. blown from
a box ear near Altoona by high wind
during storm.
Miss Della Bum was killed. Miss Jean
Allen fatally injured and Joseph Lowry
seriously Injured last night at Mercer.
Pa. when a sleigh in which they wer"
riding struck by a train on tn"
Pennsylvania railroad The victims wer"
all students of Grove City College, and
owing III the cold weather. were so muf
1ed with wraps not to hear the ap-
proacll of the train.
The official forecast promises 4 rise in
temperature for today.