New-York tribune., 1910-01-07
STORM GENERAL.
Utmost Entire Country Coz
ered-Many Varieties.

Pittsburg Jan. 6.-The northern blizzard
arrived on time to-day but came without
its stinger. Since yesterday the thermom-
eter has dropped. risen TO ~ degrees above
zero. dropped again to IL degrees above,
and tonight is lowly descending to a prom
ised zero mark by morning. Trains from
the East and West are from thirty-five min
utes to three hours late.
Cincinnati, Jan. 6-The heaviest snow
storm of the winter ragged in Southern Ohio
to-day Both the Little Miami and Medoc
Bar ice gorges. which have threatened de-
struction to shipping ir Cincinnati Harbor
for several days, broke to-day, and tonight
the foes are moving easily down the river
The danger is believed to be over. Twenty
five hundred Sawlogs valued at s25 900. and
eight coal barges valued at $4,000. the
property of a Pittsburg firm, We're carried
away and destroyed by the breaking ice
st. Louis, Jan. 6-'rhe Mississippi River
is reported to be frozen over from ST. Paul
to a point sixty miles below st. Louis.
Louisville, Jan. 6.--Snow continued to fall
in Louisville throughout the day, and at
dark the total fall amounted to about
one foot. Nearly every town in Kentucky
foot, partial suspension of business and
much suffering among the poor. The
Weather Bureau predicted a zero temper
ature tonight.
Snow covers the greater portion of Ken
lucky. Tennessee and Arkansas, with traces
as far south as Northern Mississippi and
Alabama.
Norfolk, Va. Jan. 6-With cities and
towns a hundred miles distant wrapped in
ice. sleet and snow, Norfolk to-day expert
enced summer weather in midwinter, with
a temperature which rose from go degrees
at a m TO nearly 20 degrees this after
rcon. The mercury jumped from 42 degrees
to 60 degrees in one hour. Torrential rains
fell, as in midsummer
Kansas City, Mo, Jan. eighteen de-
grees below zero was recorded unoficially
in Kansas to-day the lowest temperature
in this part of the Southwest in twelve
years. The intense cold wave covered Mis-
souri, and reached into Oklahoma, Arkan-
sas and Texas.
Shortage of natural gas from the Kansas
field caused much suffering to thousands
of families in Western Missouri and East
ern and Central Kansas.
Ardmore, Okla; Fort Smith, Ark, and
Abilene, Tex, reported 16 degrees above
zero.
st. Paul, Jan. 6.-Reports received at
Northern Pacific Railway headquarters to-
night state that owing to the worst snow
storms in the railroad history of Montana
nearly all passenger and freight trains
are stalled, while snow ploughs are out
fighting drifts. II is expected that the
trains will begin to move by tomorrow.
Winnipeg, Man, Jan. 6.-The blizzard of
the last few days in the country along the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie
Railroad has resulted in seven deaths.
Among the victims was Sheriff Whitehead,
of Weyburn.
Salt Lake City, Jan. b.-Inhabitants OF
Caliente, New, swept by torrents from
melting snow, are encamped on hills al
most unshellered in a temperature below
zero. So far as known only one person
has died of exposure.
Through traffic over the San Pedro, Los
Angeles & Salt Lake Railway will prob
ably not be resumed for couple of
months Whole hills were washed away
by the rushing waters and the railroad
track is washed out for miles at a stretch.