Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-09
EXTREME COLD HAS ABATED
Thermometer Records Decided Rise
in Temperature.
SNOWFALL OVER THE WEST
Railroads Are Getting Their Trains
ThrOpEh- in letter shape Than
for some Days Paat--One
Death In state.

Relief from the extreme cold which held
Omaha in It's grasp for more than week
came Sunday and at 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon the United States weather bu-
reau thermometer on the federal building
recorded the highest temperature it has
reached In ten days~-l7 degrees above
zero After that hour the mercury fell
steadily and by O'Clock II had reached
degrees above zero. ForecaEter l., a.
Welsh says he thinks the backbone OF
the severe snap has been broken and
he does not expect any more such severe
and continued cold weather
Early in the evening reports Of bliz-
zard were heard from Sioux City and
Norfolk, In which places It was stated
that one OF the worst wlndstorms in sew
eral years was moving cast at the rate Of
fifty miles an hour. In the afternoon a
strong wind prevailed IN Omaha, but by
evening Il had abated and the tempera-
ture was apparently holding its own with
Mr.. Wolshs prediction The weather
bureau office had no Information regard
ing the blizzard.
At o'clock yesterday morning the
Omaha branch OF the United States
weather bureau reported temperature OF
degrees below zero, a rise OF thirteen
degrees from Sunday morning, when the
mercury stood at IS below. The minimum
temperature during the night was be-
low. The lowest night temperature 80
far this winter was l6 below. The mod
Grafton began Sunday afternoon and a
few snowflakes fell. During the evening
the weather continued to moderate. AZ
midnight general snowfall began IN
Omaha and continued for some time
Yesterday morning blanket Of snow
covered the former SHOWS.
Warmer Ia the West,
Along the railroad lines leading to the
west and northwest. there is a break IN
the frigld spell, and while It was stii
cold, reports indicated much warmer
weather than Saturday OF Sunday.
The Northwestern reported from zero e
7 below through the Black Hills. and q
light snow falling. West OF Long Pine
the temperature was around zero. whil'
down on the Albion branch It ranged
from zero to 10 degrees above, All alonl
this line there was snowfall Sunday
night, ranging from cone 10 four inches.
The Burlington weather reports show
three Inches OF new snow all through tn,
country around Alliance and four inches
In the Black Hills district. The codes
at Alliance during the last twenty-foul
hours was 3 degrees below zero. II wa
10 degrees below at Scotts Bluff ana from
above to below all over the McCool
division. on the Sterling division, In
cluding western Nebraska and easter
Colorado and Wyoming temperature
ranged from zero TO 10 degrees above a
I Crawford, Neb,
Man Frozen 10 Death in Holt Count!
! NORFOLK, Neb., Jan. S.-tspccIal Tele
| gram Reports from the Rosebud regiol
Of South Dakota at noon were that a ter
rifle blizzard was raging there. The win
/ switched 10 the northwest here
This was the fifteenth consecutive day
save one, that the temperature was zer
or lower IN Norfolk. Today II was II be
low at o'clock. Yesterday was the cold
est day In fourteen years. The tempera
ture got down to - below zero, the recor'
since February iso9 Four inches NOR
Of snow fell last night.
John Pherson. q pioneer in Holt county
was found frozen 20 death IN his cabin
where he lived alone.
! Gas mains in Norfolk have been affeote
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