The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-11-12
COLD WAVE FROM NORTHWEST
SWEEPS KANSAS, MISSOURI,
OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS.
MERCURY'S SUDDEN TUMBLE
In Denver Yesterday Temperature
Dropped Thirty Degrees in Ten Min
utes-FaII of Fifty-four Degrees in
Two Hours in Ardmore.

While the county CLOCK was toillng
the hour of four Saturday afternoon
blizzard of unusual proportions swocp'
ed down upon the town. fierce
wind blew clouds of dust and trash
in every direction, SO suddenly dt9
the wind come that doors were slam
med too and fro and there was
breaking of glass to add to thelnotsa
and confusion. Women and girls in
.peek-a- boo waists were in the shopping
districts and there was a hurry scrrry
to their homes. Many country people
were in the city and they too had
come unprepared for the emergency.
Men strolled up and down the streets
in their shirt sleeves attending TO
their business and many of the thiriy
clad lived miles away. Blankets,
comforts, overcoats and heal wraps
we're in demand and the clerks were
busy making sales of emergency
cold weather goods.
For two days sunny southern Cfla-
homa has enjoyed summer weather
The mercury registered as hish MS 50
Friday and the maximum reached So
degrees above on Saturday. Within
two hours after the storm broke there
was drop in the temperature OF 54
degrees. The thermometer register
ing 80 degrees at six o'clock and 60
ing down. All day Friday and Friday
night. and lasting until the storm
broke Saturday, strong wind blew
from the south, Windows were up IN
all the homes Friday night and the
weather was fneomfortably warm.
Heavier clothing that had been put
on earlier in the season had been dis
carded by many for the fabrics OF
summer time but this morning there
is a demand for big fires and warm
er clothing.
To add to the confusion the wind
accompanying the lowering OF the tenn
perature famed smouldering IRE
into threatening flames in the rear
of the Odd Fellows building and Ard
more Steam Laundry. The depart
ment was calle dout and hundreds
of men rushed to the scene of the
fire. The high winds made the blaze
look threatening for several minutes
until the fire department succeeded
in subduing it.
Telegraph reports reached here dur 4
ing the afternoon that the weather in !
Denver had dropped from 80 above |
to below and after this report word |
came from Oklahoma City that there |
had been a drop of 40 degrees there |
thin a few minutes, and many OF |
the people here were looking for the |
approach of the blizzard, but to the |
great majority of the people the blow |
was a complete surprise. The gov
ernment weather forecasts said |
week ago that the blizzard might he !
looked for, still there were few who |
expected its arrival.
The sudden change in temperature |
will check cotton gathering which is |
in full blast in this country Many !
fields in Carter county have not given |
boil of this years crop to commerce !
because the farmers have been un- |
able to procurehands to do the DICK |
ing. Besides the damage the storm |
will do in hindering the gathering OF |
cotton there will be some suffering |
among the people who are not pre- |
pared for the emergency and the Ben |
evolent Association will have many |