The San Francisco call., 1910-01-07
COLD WAVE GRIPS
ENTIRE COUNTRY
Zero Weather With Heavy Biz
yards Reported From
All Sections
Traffic on Big Railroads DemOr-
allied and Fuel Famine Felt
in Many Towns

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a special
forecast issued tonight by the weather
bureau says:
The next important disturbance
will reach the Pacific coast Friday.
cross the Rocky mountains and plains
states Saturday and Sunday. the central
valleys and lake region Sunday and
Monday and reach the Atlantic coast
Tuesday. This disturbance will be pre-
ceded by temperature above the aver
age at this season.
THE next marked cold wave will
appear over the extreme northwest
about the beginning of next week and
will advance thence eastward to the
Atlantic coast about Thursday"
A sleet storm forced the closing of
the public schools in Richmond, Va,
today.
1t is above zero in Albuquerque,
N. NJ, today. Snow and washouts in
the mountains have demoralized train
service.
The cold wave reached Galveston
Tex, early today in the form of heavy
sleet, the first in that section in many
years.
Snow today covers the greater por-
tion of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ar
kansas, with traces as far south as
northern Mississippi In Louisville it
is nearly a foot deep.
ICE GORGE BREAKS
The ice gorge at the Little Miami
river above Cincinnati broke today and
carried with it 20 empty barges moored
at Stewards landing on the Kentucky
side of the river.
The ice gorge, which was 10 miles
below st. Louis yesterday was in
creased during the night by foes until
it reached st. Louis harbor today. For
the first time in four years the river is
frozen from bank to bank. The tenn
perature was degrees above zero
Because off fog and icepacks in the
Hudson river the third division of the
Atlantic fleet, after getting underway
was forced to anchor again tonight
postponing its departure to Hampton
roads.
With two feet of snow and a tenn
perature 90 degrees below zero, Water
loo, Ia, is suffering tonight because of
a scarcity of coal
Reports received at the Northern Pa
cific headquarters in St. Paul today
state that, as a result of the worst
storms in the history of Montana,
nearly all passenger and freight trains
are stalled.
NO TRAINS REACH BUTTE
No trains have arrived in Butte or
departed eastward on the Northern Pa
cif1c since Tuesday night AT Grey
Cliff no less than 10 passenger trains
are held up by the snow blockade.
Eighteen degrees below zero was re-
corded unofficially in Kansas today, the
lowest temperature in the southwest in
- years. The intense cold wave COW
cred Missouri and reached into Okla
homa, Arkansas and Texas. Railroad
schedules were demoralized. On the
plains of western Kansas unprotected
cattle are dying by the hundreds.
The storm of the last few days in
the country along the Minneapolis, ST.
Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroad near
Winnipeg has resulted in seven deaths.
including Sheriff Whitehead of Reyburn
and homesteader. Hillborn, living
south of Roleau. A little boy was
found dead in haystack south of yell
low Grass. Beside him were found
his two sisters, who had been kept
warm by the boy and who were living.
Governor Carroll of Iowa today re-
ceived kilograms from officials of the
Chicago and Northwestern, the Rock
Island, the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul railways, saying that they would
give coal shipments the right of way
to relieve the coal famine.
Several of the fishing boats manned
by fishermen from Canso, Whitehead
and Dover arrived in Halifax n. s., to-
day, after terrible experience in the
blizzard which blew them offshore on
Tuesday. It is believed there will be
little If any loss of life.
Hundreds of elk and other wild ami
mails are perishing in the blizzard
which is sweeping Yellowstone park.
Antelope and deer are seen in pitiful
70 h food