New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-13
Cities Flooded and Tran
sit Wrecked from Pa
Cihc TO Chicago.
MERCURY FALLS
SO TO 60 DEGREES
Fourteen Reported Killed In
Smash-up of Snow Train
in Manitoba.

Washington, Jan. 19.-Fr.Eid tenn
peratures reaching fsr below zero fol-
lowed N tho wake OF storm which
swept north and eastward from Texas
early to-day. The cold wave spread
tonight toward the lake region and the
Atlantic cosst.
Record low marks were reported dur
ing the day from the West. and the
mercury went down to IS degrees
below zero in Northwest Canada. In
the South, on the other hand. and In
the Ohio Valley and lower lake sec
lions the weather was sbnormslly
warm.
Rains and SHOWS will be general over
most Of the country tomorrow. but the
Weather Bureau predicts lair weather
Friday virtually everywhere except in
New England. where snow is expected.
Chicago. Jan le.-Ths greater part
OF the Central West WAS In the throes
of bis storm tonight
In the area from Williston. y. D., the
Thermometer registered 80 degrees be
low zero. In North Platte, Neb.. it was
IA below. There we're only three points
IN that area where the thermometer
registered above zero
Omahs reported Is below, and Sioux
City, Iowa. and St. Paul. 20 and u
below, respectively.
Throughout this section there was
the usual interruption of traffic. st.
Paul reported low temperatures over
the Central Northwest, with heavy
winds in the Dskotas and temperature
of 53 below zero 81 Hannah. y. D. At
Duluth the temperature was falling.
with . blizzard prevailing.
According 70 local weather forecast
ers, the storm tonight Is moving east
ward and northward.
Trains reached Chicago from the
West from an hour TO two hours late.
In the city, snow and sleet hampered
the surface and elevated lines Tenn
perature of 80 degrees below zero is
expected.
one man Is dead and hale a score Of
minor accidents we're reported as the
result Of the snow and sleet storm IN
this city. Service on one Of the clty's
elevated lines was abandoned for two
hours.
St Louis. Jan. IA rainfall % 312
inches in twenty-four hours to-day sent
the Les Peres River out OF its banks
and forced St. Louis's many families
10 upper stories.
The Neremec River, which enters the
Nfissjssippi TWENTY-FIVE miles below st.
Louis. rose eleven feet this morning
and continued 70 rise foot every hour.
The mercury is said 70 be 80 70 ~
degrees below zero over most Of the
Dskotas and IN the northern Rocky
Mountain regions.
Weston, ". Va, Jan. l2,-Flood wa
tiers from the west FORK Of the Monon-
eahela River are six feet deep in the
principal streets here, and the river 10
rising SIX inches an hour one man IS
known TO have been drowned, and
scores Of families have moved 90 higher
ground Traction lines entering the
town are under four feet Of water. The
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ceased 20
operate East Weston, suburb with
5000 population, suffered severely The
occupants OF entire blocks being com
PEELED 20 move.
Brandon. Manitoba, Jan. r. Four
teen men were killed and nearly forty
others were injured, several seriously,
when 2 stock train crashd into the rear
q snow clearing train mile east OF
here to-day.
Virtually an the victims were labor
crs o. foreign birth and were IN the
ceboose Of the snow plough train.
Many of the injured were brought 20 q
Brandon hospital. suffering from the
intense cold 10 was said several OF
them probably would die.
Kansas City. Jan. 12. IT, Kansas City
The storm has killed two, while more
than score Of persons are in hospitals
recovering from injuries The tenn
perature has dropped 85 TO So degrees
In the Southwestern states IN twenty
four hours. A blizzard rs raging
throughout the state.