Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-18
Thermometer is Below Freezing at
Brownsville, Texas.
DEEP SNOW ALONG THE OHIO
Traffic DemOralized by Gale Of Sixty
Miles an Hour.
TRAINS LATE EVERYWHERE
Disturbance VIII BE Central at
Points Along the Atlantic
Coast This Morn
ing.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Gentle spring,
which ventured abroad n the Atlantic
states yesterday and today was running
for cover by tonight, ahead Of a snow and
sleet storm which has taken a flying start
over the eastern gulf states and is NOV
ing northeast rapidly. The eastern Atlantic
states will be under it's influence by to-
morrow morning at the atest, the weather
bureau forecasters say.
This morning at Brownsville, Tex, at the
mouth OF the Rio Grande, the temperature
is below freezing and the mercury is re-
gistering 20 and 80 below in the northwest
A sleet storm is central over the Misss-
sippi valley and snow is falling over the
Ohio valley.
Gale I'm Northern Ohio.
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. IA gale rang
ing in velocity from forty to sixty miles
an hour and bearing with 1t heavy snow
has demoralized traffic in northern Ohio.
Passenger trains on the New York Cen
trail and Pennsylvania lines are running
two to four hours late. Suburban cars are
reported stalled west and south of here
and local traffic is spasmodio Practically
no freight trains are moving, thousands
of cars being held here, at Buffalo,
Youngstown and various division points.
Coolest of Winter.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 1.-THE coldest
weather of the winter prevailed in western
Kansas Colorado and parts Of Wyoming
today. The cold also was very severe in
Oklahoma. Texas and other portions of
the southwest.
The Kansas temperatures ranged from 10
degrees above to 4 below In Colorado
some of the mountain districts report as
much as 30 degrees below zero. In the
Colorado lOwlands zero temperature with
snow made the day exceedingly uncom-
! Portable
Colorado Springs had the coolest weather
In ten years-1O below zero. At Corona,
little hamlet on the summit of the divide,
It was 80 below. with the wind bowling
through the hills at the rate of fifty
miles an hour.
In Oklahoma, southern Kansas and the
Texas Panhandle nearly two inches Of
snow fell during the night.
sIeet and snow in South.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. ia com
bination of sleet, snow and high winds
during last night shut off wire communi-
cation to the south today. The sleet
/ throughout southern Indiana lower Illi-
nois and parts Of Kentucky and Tennes-
see practically put telegraph companies out
Of commission except to the east and north
! In Louisville an inch more of sleet
was covered during the night by four
inches Of snow and it is still showing.
MEMPHIS, Feb. lion the heels Of
springlike weather the central south and
southwest today is covered with sleet and
snow. In Memphis two inches of sleet
/ fell during the night and 1t was still snow
ing today.
/ In north Mississippi and central Ar
kansas practically the same conditions
prevail while the extreme northwestern
section of Arkansas reports snowfall of
! ten inches
In southwestern Texas the weather is
clearing but cold. Oklahoma points report
the coldest weather In years
NEW RICHMOND. Wis. Feb. 17.-This
| is the coolest day of the season, "a degrees
below zero.
Death in Ohio storm.
| CINCINNATI, o., Feb T.-One death
and numerous minor accidents were charged
to the blizzard which descended upon this
section yesterday and continued today.
Heavy drifts of snow packed hard by a
singing north wind blocked suburban troll
ley lines and steam roads and impeded the
operation Of street cars in this and sur
rounding cities
Herman Havrkamp 1926 Clay street was
found unconscious in a snowdrift at
Twelfth and Vine streets and died later.
Heavy Snow in Seattle.
SEATTLE. Wash. Feb. 17.-Last nights
snowfall was the heaviest of the winter in
Seattle and the country north and east
Here more than an inch fell and fourteen
miles northeast there was fall Of four
teen inches.
LARAMIE, Wyo., Feb. ia minimum
temperature Of s degrees below zero was
recorded here last night