The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-01
Joyful News Given Out to SIliy-
ering Storm Victims.
Church Services Suspended
When Gas Supply Fails.
SEVERE OVER STATE
Kansas Suffers From Worst
Storm in Years.
Small Towns Are Isolated When
Wind Piles Snow.

1.-The backbone of the cold weather
| Is broken said Sunny Flora, the To-
! cal weather man today. land this will
come a joyful news as all Topeka has
been shivering."
! This morning the minimum tenlpera-
ture was recorded at O'Clock when the
reading was two degrees above zero
| Sunday the mercury crawIed down three
degrees oeIow the zero mark From Sat
urday night at II o'clock to Sunday
morning at 9 O'Clock the quicksilver re-
NAMED below the zero. 1t was the cold
est December 81 on record in Topeka
The gas supply was practically nil at
various points in the city Sunday morn
ing. Potwin and Ilowman Hill suffering
particularly.
Church in Overcoats.
There was no morning preaching at
the First Christian church on account
of inability to make the place OF Wof-
ship comfortable. At the First con-
gregational church early IN the morn
ing the coal CRATES were put in the
furnace in which gas had been burned,
and services were held as usual Ihere
was no Epworth League meeting sun
day evening at the Euclid Avenue NJ L.
church on account of the rigid atmos-
phere. In fact in many OF the churches
the men sat in their overcoats
The wind was blowing from the south
east this morning. The forecast sent
ont from Washington cONSI1hS liz CT
tire week indicates that there will be
unsettled conditions IN the middle
west with low temperatures
Tvhis to Be a VVintry Week.
Wtntrv weather will be general dur
ing the greater part of the coming
week. according to a bulletin issued
late tonight by the weather bureau
Stormy weather is also predicted over
the North Atlantic steamship routes,
fcJo
"A marked change to colder weather
will overspread the region east of the
Mississippi river within the next 36 to
the line of freezing temperature ex-
tending southwark to the gulf and
south Atlantic coasts and the northern
Florida. Unseasonably cold weather
will continue the next several days in
the Middle West and Southwest and the
Rocky mountain region.
"A storm that is now over the upper
lake region will move down the St
Lawrence valley during Monday at
tended by snow in the region of the
Interior Aof Kew York aIs4 New Fsng-
land, it will be followed by clearing
weather elsewhere east of the Missis-
sippi river during Monday.
THE next disturbance of Importance
to cross the United States will appear
in the Far West Monday or Tuesday,
cross the Middle West Wednesday or
Thursday and the eastern states about
Friday This disturbance viii be pre-
ceded by reaction to normal tempera-
ture, be attended by general SHOWS in
northern and rains in southern dis
tricts, and will be followed by decidedly
colder weather.
The forecast locally for the next "a
hours is: Increasing cloudiness tonight
and Tuesday; warmer tonight
Cold Over the State
Over the state the cold wave of
Saturday lasted over Sunday and the
cold was of unusual severity. The
snow, which was not heavy in Topeka,
was heavier out over the central and
western part of the state. Stock suf-
fered and the stockmen will likely re-
port heavy losses as a result of the
storm and low temperature. Reports
of from zero temperature to Is de-
grees below that mark are frequent in
the weather report The minimum
was reported by the Rock Island from
Phillipsburg Saturday night.
Trains were hours behind the Sched-