Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-13
WIND BLEW GREAT Guns"
Heavy Rain and Nor'weSter Causes
Decided Drop in Tempera-
ture.

The long heralded colo wave grlppeo
Alexandria and vicinity last night
when the thermometer dropped al
most 40 degrees. The temperature
at 9 O'Clock was 81 degrees, with the
mercury still going down. The cold
was intensified by wind which 10 the
early evening blew 40 miles an hour.
TIE wind which was accompanied at
first by heavy rain came in heavy
blows until an eailv hour this morn
ing, when the mercury in the Their
mometer vas down TO "a degrees.
While the streets in many places were
covered with leaves and in some local
iLles small branches OF trees, no serious
damage resulted so far as las been
learned
In Baltimore the wind played havoc
with telephone and Geographic services
shattered many show windows in stores
and blew over telegraph poles and trees
The damage wrought by the blow
amounted to hundreds Of dollars.
More than score OF deaths, several
million dollars property loss, and much
suffering and Inconvenience resulted
from the violent change OF temperature
preceding storms and the succeeding
cold and snow that beset the centra
portion OF the country Saturday and
yesterday.
After an unusually warm November
day Saturday, tornado storms caused
much damage in Wisconsin and Hi
nois. and killed dozen persons, be
sides injuring more than score, sew
eral fatally. A cold wave almost i'm
mediately rolled over the wreckage o
the tornado, and extended in feH
hours to the gulf coast and Atlantic
seaboard. Rain turned to sleet, snap
ping telegraph and telephone wires
and snow followed. The temperature
dropped in several places more thar
80 degrees in eighteen hours.
Several persons we're frozen to deatt
by the sudden cold; shipping on the
great lakes was damaged, and severa
boats we're cast adrift. Tha poor il
large cities and the homeless IN storm
swept regions suffered severely.
Splintered timbers. broken furniture
scattered farm produce, and dead farm
animals scattered over an AGRA guar
ter OF mile 10 width and 20 miles IL
length indicate the tremendous forc'
with which southern Wisconsin wors
tornado swept a path through RocI
county, killing eight persons, injurinj
many more aud doing damage to TIT
extent OF nearly million dollars.
There will be many sudden change
in the weatehr according to th'
Weather Bureau last night. Th'
coming week." says the bulletin, vii
he one Of pronounced weather change:
and low temperatures over PRACTICAL.
the entire country. The cold wave tina
now covers the middle west will ad
vance rapidly eastward and give tn
lowest temperatures OF the season tn
frs, two days OF the week Throughout
the eastern and southern states, ant
on these days abnormalIy low temper
atures will continue in the interior dis
riots east of the Rocky Mountains.
IAN extensive disturbance that l
now off the north Pacific coast will All
vanre slowly eastward and be ATTENDED
the first part OF the week Ivy storm.
W, atber in the north Pacific states. |
will cross the Rocky Mountains Tues
day, the middle vet Wednesday o
Thursday and the eastern states tn
latter part OF The week. The disturb
ance will be preceded by genera
change to warm weather, be ATTENDED
by rains in southern ard rains enc
SHOWS in northern districts, and will -
followed by change to colder Weathe
over the northern half OF the country
The ladies oil the west are galnln!
grooud in the privilege OF voting, as Z
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