The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-05

Up NORTH IT IS %
even Ii, Iowa the Thermometers Reg
istered 1e Below at Dubuque
This Morning on Coolest
Day.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Jan. with
The thermometer rs degrees below
zero at Z o'clock this morning and an
lev is mile breeze blowing, Minneapu
lis Is experiencing an unprecedented
siege OF zero weather. During the
past four days the average tempera-
lure has been II below. and has not
risen above four below.
Calls upon charity organizations
for fuel have been SO pressing since
the first OF the year, that officers re-
port themselves unable to cope with
the situation.
Temperatures ranging from zero to
rs below prevail all over the north
west Trains from all directions are
late.
Way Down Below Zero.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis. Jan. With
all records OF the year broken when
tine thermometer fell to IA degrees
below the zero mark at a. m. here
today, charitable organizations report
ed an Unprecedented demand for aid
By the cits's poor. With hands and
feet frozen. Theodore Seller, 60, died
today In a hospital 4 score of 9TH
ers are In hospitals. Two deaths are
reported today from other points In
Wisconsin.
Railroad companies report all trains
late.
Tbe mercury was 32 below ait Su-
perior on the north, and 16 below at
Dubuque, Iowa, on the extreme south
vest corner of the state.
AT La Crosse, Wis, % below zero
was registered
Entire West Frozen.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-The entire
vest, from the great lakes to the re.
sion Just west Of the Pacific slope. is
fast in the grip of the most severe
weather Of the winter. In many
places, low temperature records OF
the last four or Ave years have been
broken.
Suffering In this city was intense
last night. The city and county
agents and charity organizations were
almost helnlcss before the extraor-
dlnary demand for fuel, food or shell,
tor chcago's army of 10000 job.
lefs working men and their families
suffered keenly. At the municipal
lodging house, $50 men were given
shelter for the night. Not another
person could be crowded on the floors
ithe building. Hundreds we're sent
aaoer escort Of police to various sta
'lon houses to be Kept warm. All
sefe given breakfast today.
Early IN the evening the govern
ment thermometer registered above
zero. BY ten O'clock the mercury hau
laropped to Ave degrees below. At S
. m. today 1t was below. Scores OF
men who were forced to brave the
,sFrlhle blasts during the night suf
,sfea frozen fingers or feet, and all po
nVe stations report numerous cases to
aas. The indications are for increas
lngly cold weather
wo small fires during the nigh,
vsused the firemen and police no enc
su'iering and drove twenty families
wy oi their apartments. These people
we're almost frozen before the police
eoulo md shelter for them. At blaze
,aae DESTROYED the Halsted Street Mil
olnpahy's plant. firemcn who helt
,h ,ss hozzles had to be chopped from
~ pavement with axes. The mer
~ iiterally encased in ice.
neports from the west today Sd,
,s sa' oizzards have been raging OF
Ms pans for several days. Railroad,
~ leg up and snow plows are unable
-, a path through the drifts. Som,
maneh lines have been abandoned ane
asop'e IN Kansas and Nebraska ar,
,sa'nofing that state officials fore,
,r., rs railroads to provide them will
cured sS i'ins may Nc 'e
M, soldest Spot on Map.
d,s o.uIH, MINI. Jan. 5.--Duluth to
vho,. .ne most frigid place in tn,
temn.u United States, according Il
tba, s'a.ufe sufe reports OF the cold way,
4 noids the west in lis icy grasp.
,ero 'smperature Of So degrees below
prevailed at $ a m. today.
pt.o,, Chilly Prospect.
y q. M. today dropped to tel