Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-09
TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY.

For the first time In eleven
days the mercury has climbed
above zero, registering above at
2 o'clock this afternoon. A gen.
erai rise in temperature has been
experienced since yesterday morn
ing, the thermometer showing 22
degrees below at z o'clock, the
coidest morning Of the winter, and
only 10 below at % o'clock last q
night. This morning .at 7s O'clock "a
II had 'rise,f TO below. From
yesterday morning until 8 o'clock
this afternoon the therno meter
readings show that the tempera-
ture 10 taking = most acceptable
change for the better.
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. S.-Relief
from the intense cold over the Missouri
valley and the southwest today was In
the shape Of rise Of from 10 to 20 de-
grees in temperatures. From to 8
inches Of snow fell over parts of Mis-
souri, at Kansas, Oklahoma. Arkansas,
Nebraska and Iowa. Temperatures
ranged from IA below in Huron, S. D.,
to 38 above at Fort Worth, Texas.
Trains from the west still were de-,
layed today and more snow and pros.
ects Of continued cold left the pros
poets for permanent relief little
brighter for sufferers in isolated COM.
munities of western Kansas. A 36
mile an hour wind swept over Okla.
homa today but the mercury there had
climbed from the below zero neigh
borhood to 6 above.
Nebraska temperatures ranged from
2 below at Omaha to 10 below at
North Platte.
Des Moines showed below. Zero
at Kansas City and Wichita Kansas,
was the lowest figure for western Mis-
souri, and Kansas.
Hard Week on Railroads.
Duluth, Mimi, Jan. Sit has been
the hardest seven days in the history
of Northwestern railroading, even AZ
1t has been record breaking period
for continuous low temperatures. The
operating departments of the various
roads report conditions unprece-
dented. Loss Of locomotive power has
been fully fifty per cent The inability
to keep steam up to high working
pressure and the freezing OF lubri-
cants of bearings combined to reduce
the efficiency.
Nearly all the passenger trains are
running behind schedule from thirty
minutes to several hours Orders pro-
hibiting making up time" have been
issued by several roads.
Roads Blocked By Snow.
Chicago, Jam 8.-Predictions Of
warmer weather for today brought joy
to the railroads west and north OF
Chicago. But il was short lived.
Heretofore throughout the cold spell
they have been hampered by frozen
pipes and other equipment that 10
damaged by extreme cold. Now the,
snow is filling the roadbeds and other
wise slowing UP traffic. Practically
all trains in the states where snow
prevails are running behind time.
At 10 o'clock this morning the
temperature was degrees above zero.
Until last night Chicago had expert
enced almost four days of below zero
weather
28 Higher in Missouri.
ST. Louis. Mo-. Jan. 8.-One death az
direct result Of the cold was re-
ported to the police today. A negro
was frozen in barn The tempera-
ture at o'clock was Ia degrees above
zero, 90 degrees higher than the lowest
temperature recorded yesterday when
a five year record was broken.
SO Degrees Warmer at Lacrosse.
Lacrosse, Wis, Jan. 8.-After yes
terday's recording the lowest tempera-
ture since 1885, thirty eight degrees
below zero, the cold wave was broken
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