The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-12
BOreas Drives in Suddenly and Mercury
Hastens to Head for Bulb al Bot
tom Of Tube; COldest
for Years
RAILROAD TRAFFIC
is HIT BY STORM
Trains on All Roads Belated; Wire Service
Also Suffers; Long Distance Lines
Crippled; Plumbing Business
Promises to Pick Up

Coming from the north with a
whoop, whistle and bang, the cold
wave descended on this section at 900
last night carrying the mercury down
in jumps until within a few hours it
had fallen from Ga above to 2 above.
The rain which had fallen gently and
intermittently all day yesterday,
changed in a flash to sleet and frozen
Isnow last night and the sun arose
this morning on glaring and barren
scene of white and frozen carpeting
The fall in the mercury last night
registered the coolest weather known
here for several years. Last nights
drop went from maximum of Ga de-
grees shown yesterday to 2 degrees
above according to the government
thermometer. The coldest shown dur
ing the previous winter, was above
registered on December &c, 1914. At
eleven o'clock this morning the sun,
battling the winds. had pushed the
thermometer readings up to seven
degrees above. .,hile weather forecasts
received over the wires stated the
drop would go to zero or colder by to-
morrow morning.
Railway service to the northward is
more or less demoralized on all three
of the lines entering Chickasha. Trains
from the north over the Rock Island
are running four hours late, The
"Firefly" on the Rock Island came in
hours late but railway officials charge
the delay to engine trouble and state
the storm conditions we're not respon
sible. The Mangum train was four
hours late out of FL Reno due to a
derailment of the engine at the Ell
Reno roundhouse. The engine of the
Lindsay Independent acquired bad
case of the la grippe and refused to
pull its train out of the Chickashs
yards until eleven o'clock this morn
ing.
Reports received at the Chickasha
station of the Santa Fe show the con-
ditions on the o. c. branch of that
road to be unaffected by the storm
However, the wires along of the Santa
Fe between Purcell and Arkansas City
are reported down and no report can
be received here of the operation of
Santa Fe fast trains from the north
The Frisco reports mot much train
service today" The trains from the
east into Chickasha were reported one
hour and forty five minutes late this
morning with bad connections from
fthe north and other points near the
storm zone center.
The Pioneer Telephone company is
having troubles of its own along all
rural and long distance lines. All long
distance service was badly crippled
throughout the day and many of the
rural lines were practically out of
commission. Manager Kelley has put
the day in out in the country working
hard on wire trouble corrections.
The city electric light fires came in
for their share of the storm trouble,
reports at police headquarters show
ing fifty street lights to have been put
out of the running last night.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany reports serious wire trouble to
the north with nothing working be-
tween Oklahoma ard Kansas City at
eleven o'clock this morning Wire
connections the west were bad
early this morning but were working
good later in the day. Telegraph ser
vice all over the east, the west and
the north was put on the blink for a
number of hours.
The Postal Telegraph company re-
ports conditions fairly good alons the
lines but of course affected by the
storm.
Plumbers, without an exception
lwere happy as larks this morning while
the man of the house swore and the
woman OF the honse wept over frozen