South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-02-09
MERCURY CLIMBS
30 DEGREES FROM
MIDNIGHT TO NOON
After Coolest Sunday in Years
South Bend EmergeS This
Morning From Below Zero
Iand-20 Above at Noon.

From 10 degrees below zero at mid
night. the coIdest weather of the year,
the temperature jumped so degrees
Monday in less than y hours. reaching
20 above at noon. Midnight Sunday
saw the coolest weather Of the season.
The temperature was three degrees
below the low mark for 1913.
After midnight the thermometer be-
gan rising slowly and at in the
morning registered below. After
that time il rose fast and by noon
recorded at the 20 degree mark.
AT no time Sunday did it go above
zero. giving the day the coldest aver
age temperature in years. The figures
ranged from five 20 nine degrees below
zero.
Attendance Is Slim.
The severe cold weather Sunday
kept the congre cations at the churches
from reaching the marks the various
pastors had hoped for. No attempt
was made to count the attendance
wnen il was seen that the crowds
were not nearly SO large as had been
expected.
The theater crowds were also great
j. diminished from what they are as
a rule on Sunday afternoons and
nights. The streets were almost bare
and the few that were on the sidewalks
n-ere hurrying for places of shelter.
The stiff breeze that blew all day
made it seem colder than it really
was.
Traffic locally was not greatly in
iured The chief trouble seemed to
lie in the crushed and flying snow
freezing on the tracks. The snow
plows were not called into play but
once or twice during the day. The
various steam lines entering the city.
however, were running from one TO
three hours late.
Three Fires For Day.
The freezing weather was response
bic for at least two fires Sunday. One
in the apartments owned by DR.. +. r.
PaxsOn at $3.50 o'clock IN the after
noon caused a loss of S200. half of
which fell upon the stock OF 1. w
Lowers wall paper store in the first
floor The fire was caused by the
partition i'm t1e hallway in the third
floor becoming ignited from an alco-
hoI torch with which Dr. Paxson was
thawing water pipes.
People watching the pictures in the
American theater. adjoining the
Lower store were ordered out OF the
building by the police and marched
cut i'm order while the piano was play
ing. When it was seen there was no
danger they were allowed 10 return
I. W. Lower owner OF the wall paper
store. presented the firemen with q
box or cigars.
I'm an effort to thaw the water
pipes of the Second Brethren church.
Van Buren, av.. with a torch at 12:45
o'clock Sunday G.. +. Coder accident
ally set one of the walls of the church
ablaZe lie called the fire department
and the fire was quickly eNtlngulshed.
The loss was about $25.
At $50 Sunday morning the depart
1nent was called 10 the home OF W. ;.
Nusbaum, 1917 Michigan av, where
"a chimney fire had been discovered.
There was no damage.
FIRES AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO. Feb. Sin every one
of the % hours OF Sunday as the
mercury drOped near the zero point
and the wind rose almost 10 a gale,
the fremen OF Chicago were lighting
"a stubborn and bitter battle against
one Of the worst series Of fires in the
citys history.
Seventy-five fire alarms in succession
dragged the men from one fire TO
another without rest or food or sleep
cor time 10 change clothing, the wind
slashing their faces. the water from
their hose lines frozen on them until
they were inCaSed in an icy armor
their hose lines were frozen solid in
the streets under six inches of ice,
and even the men themselves we're
frozen to ladders until they had to
he chopped loose.