Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-02
Freezing Temperatures In
Middlewestern States and
Heavy Snow Is Falling In
the Northern District.
IOWA FRUIT CROP
MAY YET SUFFER
Predicted Drop In Temper
ature Tonight Might Do
Great Damage; Ottumwa
Gets Heavy Rain Storm.

Chicago, May 1.-IoWa: Con-
orally fair tonight and Tuesday,
except unsettled In east portion
tonight; freezing temperature
with colder In extreme southeast
portion; warmer by Tuesday
afternoon.
Des Moines, May Iowa frult
growers are worried over weather con-
ditions and indications of freezing
temperature tonight The trees are
in bloom in the southern and central
sections and freez tonight Will 40
severe damage to the fruit crop. snow
was reported today from Mason CITY
and other northern Iowa Points Wnlle
the entire state was visited with
rain and wind storm last night.
Bad storm In Three States.
Kansas City, May Missouri, Kan
sas Nebraska and parts OF northern
Oklahoma are shivering today, fol'
lowing the sudden drop in temperature
which in some places was as great as
so degrees. A high wind from the
northwest which prevailed Yesterday
In Kansas and Nebraska had passed
eastward today but left frozen
trail. The weather bureau here pre-.
diets that by Tuesday morning II VIII
be freezing throughout most OF Kan
sas. Nebraska and part Of missouri.
Heavy Snow In Wisconsin.
Ii La Crosse, Wis, May IA heavy
snow has been falling over the north
west since before daylight this morn
ing. Six inches have fallen and the
fall continues heavy. Railway and
wire companies may be slightly incon-
venienced in this section.
Blizzard Raging In West.
Norfolk. Neb., May Ia severe bliz-
zard ushered in May day in northern
Nebraska, southern Dakota and north
western Wyoming.
From six to eight inches of snow fell
between Valentine and Chadron. NeD.
over 1000 telegraph poles went down
west of Valentine and the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad Is operating
without wires today. Snow plows are
at work, the showing having drifted.
A serious freezing followed this morn
ing, and fruit men say the fruit has
been killed.
Fair Weather After Today.
Washington, D. c., May IA cold
wave, now over the northwest, Will
travel southwark, reach the Mississippi
valley and the western upper lake
region Monday, the Ohio valley Tues
day. and New England in the middle
of the week, announced the weather
bureaus weekly forecast last night.
Fair weather after today is ex-
pected in the plains states, while in
the south the weather experts figure
out more unsettled weather with oc-
casional showers.
Carried one-Quarter Mile BY Tornado.
Warrensburg, Mo-, May 1.-Add1-
tional details of the tornado which
swept path across northern johnson
county late Saturday, destroying scores
of houses and barns, disclose the fact
that at least one life was lost and that
another will be added to the toll OF
death.
Kelly Fain. the 10 year old son OF
William T. Fain was carried quarter
of mile by the wind, and was thrown
against the ground with such force
that nearly every bone In his body was
broken and his brains were dashed
out. His mother was struck by flying
timbers and will die. His fathers
home {, mansion of anterbellum days,
was blown to atoms.
storm Cellar cave-in Fatal.
ST. Joseph, MO, May Fears of
tornado here. cost the life Of Harvey
Deem, 4 years old, and resulted IN
serious injury to his father, Henry
Deem, and the, Deem baby. When
storm approached the family sought
shelter in storm cellar on their
farm. The cellar caved in and buried
them.