The Dickinson press., 1911-11-18
Is BELOW
WAS RECORD
Cold Wave Swept the Country.
Tornado in Wisconsin. Many
Die. Three People
Frozen in Chicago.


It was record smashing weather again
the past week. Three men were frozen
to death in Chicago. eight people killed
in cyclone in Wisconsin and severe
weather in the Gulf states are among
the unusual events of early November
this year.
At Dickinson mercury registered IL
degrees below zero. the morning of the
10th. It was 13 below Sunday morning,
2 Monday and Tuesday morning. The
snowfall for the week ending November
IA was nearly S inches.
People thought it was pretty severe in
Western North Dakota until they started
reading the startling storm reports in
other parts of the country. In Montana
as low temperature as 20 below was re-
ported, while at Duluth IA degrees below
was the record and in the iron range
country is to 20 degrees. It was report
ed 20 degrees below zero at Glendive
and eastern Montana points. The snow
commenced to fall in Canada early last
week and from unofficial reports it ap-
pears that they have great deal more
snow up there than in the States.
Around here there was as good sleigh
ing early this week as is generally seen.
If Fosters warm spell, promised for the
first of November. should come it is pos
sible that the snow will disappear.
However, it is generally believed the
winter came to stay.
A record of is degrees below zero was
recorded about the middle of November
in 1909, but to get temperature ranging
from S to 8 degrees below zero all day
like it was on the nth. is a most un-
usual thing. There was also high
wind.
A resume of storm and weather con-
ditions in various parts of the country
is as follows -
Cold weather claimed third victim
in Chicago, William johnson, aged 40.
politician, was found unconscious
from the cold on the north side and died
in police ambulance while being
taken to the hospital. Many persons
hurt on icy pavements shipping.damage
is great. In II hours the temperature
lowered 50 degrees, or to 10 above zero.
AT Duluth the bay froze over on Mon
day, the date, of freezing up being
among the earliest on record The
maximum velocity of the wind at the
head of the lakes. during the GALE. was
fifty miles an hour from the northwest.
Very little snow fell at the head TO
the lakes, but high winus prevailed
making the extreme cold doubly felt. It
ranged from 10 to IA degrees below in
Duluth and IS to 20 belkw in the
range. Hunters in the woods are
deep in the snow and the cold in the
north woods is intense.
Relief from the severe cold was exper-
fenced in Iowa on Monday, the tempera-
ture rising rapidly. In the east the tenn
perature fell rapidly. a drop of forty-four
degrees in nineteen hours being noted
in New York city, where the mercury
stood at "a degrees on the 18th.
Green Bay. Wis.-Eugene Dewarzeges,
aged II. was frozen to death on a
country road.
A tornado, which swept over parts of
Illinois, Wisconsin and Mich iean Satur-
day night caused the death of nearly a
score of persons.
Near GAINESVILLE, Wis. nine are
known to be dead, two are fatally in
jured and others may die. The prop
erty loss will probably reach million.
At Easton, ILL.,, two persons were
killed and seven seriously injured.
The town of Virginia, ILL.,. suffered a
heavy financial loss by the tornado. At
Oswego. Mich, two persons were killed
and ten injured. The money loss there
will reach nearly half million dollars.
Kentucky-Widespread damage by
wind. unusually cold.
Alabama-One man killed by wind
near Montgomery.
Gulf Coast Unusually severe weather.
much suffering.
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