Omaha daily bee., 1914-12-22
COLD WAYE VISITS
OMAHA AND THEN
MOVES ON AGAIN
Mercury Drops Twenty-0ne Degrees
Since Sunday Noon and Then
Starts to Rise.
SNOW IS EIGHT INCHES DEEP
Large Force of Men Required to
Remove Fall of Beautiful from
the Streets.
CLEAR OUT IN THE STATE
Entire Western Country is Also Gov
/ered with Fine Blanket.
COLDER IN THE WEST PORTION
COidest spot Was at ErieksOn, Sew
/enteen BeiOw-IOwa, Kansas
and south Dakota Also Have
Good Fall of snow.
CLEAR OUT IN THE STATE
Entire Western Country is Also Gov
erred with Fine Blanket.
COLDER IN THE WEST PORTION

The cold wave struck Omaha and soon
left Forecasted Sunday to visit this
section of the country Sunday night, it
came, but 1t did not last long, as the
crest wAs reached just before o'clock
yesterday morning, when the thermometer
reached 2 below and then II started to
rise, until at 3 o'clock It was 20 above
zero. Late last night the indications did
not favor another decided drop.
Snow to the depth of eight inches fell
Sunday and this gave work to an army
of the unemployed, as the deep snow had
10 be removed from the sidewalks and
streets In the central portion Of the city,
from the tracks in the railroad yards
and from the walks in the resident por-
tion of Omaha. Commissioner Ryder put
a large force of teams and men at work
early Monday morning having had teams
with scrapers out all. night dragging the
snow from the cutters.
Clear Railroad Yards.
At the passenger yards of the Union
station 100 or more men were given work
shovellng snow first thing Monday morn
ing. The snow had covered every part
OF the yards to a depth OF six to eight
inches. with shovels and brooms this
snow was gathered into heaps and loaded
on cars. after which it was hauled ia
dumps.
In the Burlington yards more than fifty
men were at work early in morning
sweeping and shoveling the snow into
piles, later to be hauled away on fiat
cars.
The sweeping OF snow was continued
through the freight yards of practically
all the roads later in the day and during
the afternoon. some 500 men were at
work.
snow Ia General.
The railroads report a fall OF snow gem
eral over ali Iowa, Nebraska, South Da-
kota and Kansas Sunday, the weather
clearing during the night and tempera-
lures dropping to zero and below. Out in
the western part OF Neb,aska' the Union
Pacific reported the snow drifting some
, but elsewhere 1t lay as it fell.
According to the railroads the lowest
temperature of the twenty-four hours
was at Ericsson. where the registration
was Is below! The highest was 8 degrees
above at Crawford.
Throughout the state the new snow OF
Sunday ranged from a foot at Ravenna
10 an inch at Benkleman. Generally Il
was the heaviest through the central and
western portions and lighter in Wyoming
Down through the southern portion ol
the central section the fall ranged from
SIX 70 ten inches. Now the reports to the
railroads indicate clear, calm and rising
temperatures everywhere.
seven below at Denver.
DENVER, Dec. 21.--Colorado and Wyom-
ing last night shr cred in the coldest
weather of the season. At Denver the
lowest temperature recorded by the gov
ernment thermometer was below zero.
Pueblo, Colo, reported Il below, and
Lander, Wyo., 10 below zero.