Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-06
FIFTEEN BELOW Is REACHED
Intense Cold Throughout Nebraska
and Entire Central West.
NO PROSPECT OF RELIEF IN VIEW
Cold Wave Spreading from Noun
tains to Great Lakes.
MUCH SUFFERING Is PREDICTED
Travel on Railroads Impeded and
Difficulty Experienced I'm Getting
Shipments to Towns Where
Supplies Are Needed.

Friday was the coolest day of the winter
and at the same time the coldest day that
Omaha has experienced in seven years.
The lowest temperature Of the day, as
recorded by the government weather
bureau was 10 degrees below zero. This
was for two hours at s and o'clock yes
terday morning. From that time on the
temperature rose slowly, the warmest of
the day, however, being IL degrees below
zero. This was at O'Clock in the after
noon. From that time on there was a
steady drop. the reading at o'clock last
night being 13 degrees below.
While IL was cold in Omaha, the tenn
perature here was balmy as Compared
with some other points.
LITTLE FALLS, MINI, last night re-
ported a temperature of 80 degrees below
zero At st. Paul, Mimi, 1t was % be-
low. At Minneapolis the weather ma
chinery recorded 2s below zero and then
there was a freezeup. the thermometers
refusing to make additional records. At
Sioux City, there was a drop to 20 de-
gress and at Des Mones, Ia, to IS, with
a prospect Of 1t being much colder before
morning.
SO far as United States points were con-
! cerned, Duluth. Mimi, held the record
being S5 degrees below zero.
Cold i'm wyoming.
Up through Wyoming there was a
slight break in the cold from Thursday.
Grey Bull, which came along with is
below Thursday recorded temperature
Of but degrees below Friday morning. 1t
was 4 degrees below at Sheridan and s
above at Crow Indian agency.
II .s.4.- -.
Nnes it was intensely cold yesterday
morning. Norfolk started off with. 20 de-
grees below and Winner, Just over the
line in South Dakota, touched degrees
colder. At Long Pine it was 10 below
and at Chadron just zero.
In the Black Hills temperatures ranged
from to IS degrees below, while out
along the line between Caspar and Lam
der, below was the warmest and 90 at
=, Power River, the coolest.
The Union Pacific found cold weather
along it's entire line from Omaha to
Green River. There was little relief
at Cheyenne where during the night the
temperature went from zero to 10 above
a point reached early yesterday morning
Rawlins reported zero and North Platte
degrees below.
With the continued cold come reports
of heavy losses to the cattle and sheer
men. Numerous sections report that the
hay has all been fed and that 1t is i'm
possible for stock to get through the
heavy snow that is covered with a hard
crust and get at the dead grass beneath
In many localities, all that cattle and
sheep have to eat is the dry and dead
sage brush.
Reports coming to the railroad offices
indicate that there is likely to be con
siderable suffering among the settlers
who have located in the newer section:
during the last year. This is specially
true in South Dakota. There a. grea
many of the settlers are ally provided fol
winter. Their houses are simply OF
boards, furnishing but little protection
from the wind and a far below zert
temperature.
Coolest I'm Seven Years.
1T was colder between the hours of
and yesterday morning, when the ther
,nometer registered Is degrees below
Zero than It has been since January 2
1905. On that day the mercury dropped tC
IS degrees and on February OF the same
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