Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-23
TEN BELOW, BUT THE
BLIZZARD HAS QUIT
Severe Storm Which Ragged
Over Northwest Sunday
Spends It's Fury.
CLEAR NOW IN THE WEST
SOME COLD SPOTS.

Havre, Mont . 28'Sheridan, Wyo. ..-a2
Helena, Mont. .-16lNaIentine, Neb -ee
Huron, S. .-20iWilliston. n. D.. ,.-26
Lander, Wyo. "a Yellowstone Park. 30
Miles City, Mont .-24.St. Paul, Mimi ...-l2
Moorhead, MINI. 80 Sioux City, la. IA
Denotes below zero
The cold wave has been broken.
The temperature In Omaha at 7
o'clock last night was four de-
grees above zero, having risen
one degree after steady drop
for a few hours previously.
All Saturday night, Sunday and a
greater portion OF Sunday night
northern Nebraska, Wyoming, north
ern Colorado, South Dakota, Mime
sofa and northern Iowa were firmly
held in the most severe blizzard that
has been experienced i'll twenty years.
However, the weather has cleared ar
it is now cold.
1t was cold in Omaha Monday morn
ing, the official reading being 10 de-
grees below at o'clock. This was
not a marker, though to some weather
that was reported. The Burlington
located a temperature of 90 degrees
below in the Jackson Hole country
of Wyoming, while out along the line
through to Casper and beyond 80 to
Sc below was the rule. AT Valentine.
this state, the temperature reached
% degrees below, it being the coolest
Nebraska point, though at North
Platte and Sidney it was but two de-
grees warmer. 1t was IS to Is be-
low all through the northern~portion
of the state and ? to IA below in the
eastern and southern sections.
Cold Everywhere.
The wind that blew gale all Sum-
day and Sunday night has Gained
down, breaking the weather into just
the ordinary severe variety, The cold
however, is not confined to any par
ticular section, as it extends all the
way from the Rocky mountains east
and far beyond Chicago and from
North Dakota down into central
Texas, where freezing temperature
is recorded
The heavy fall of snow over the
country to the north and west Of
Omaha has sort of demoralized the
railroad business. Freight trains are
either annuled or are working along
slowly, while passenger trains are
running as rule at from one to four
hours behind schedules. North and
northwest of Omaha the railroads
have Jared still worse. The trains
from Wyoming are four to six hours
late, while those from the north are
not running.
While advices have not been re-
ceived from the range country, the
opinion OF the railroad live stock men
is that the losses among the sheep
and cattle men will be heavy. Feed
has become scarce and this snow, it
is asserted, has buried the range to
such depth that animals will not
be able to dig down to the grass. The
sleet that was general over eastern
Nebraska, however, did not extend
into the western part of the state and
over Wyoming and this fact tends to
brighten the outlook to some extent.
South Dakota Trains Abandoned.
St. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 22.-St. Paul
and the northwest are busy today
digging themselves from beneath
snow, as the result of one of the
heaviest snowstorms in the last twen-
ty years. Minnesota, Wisconsin and
South and North Dakota were COW
cred by snow from two to seventeen
inches deep.
A wind, at one time reaching a We
locity OF forty-two miles an hour,
piled the snow into drifts, which
caused all traffic to be greatly i'm
peded. On railroads in South Da-
kota train schedules we're cancelled
and some trains arr still stalled in
the great banks of snow. All trains
into this point are hours late and a
drop of temperature has added to
The difficulties oi the railroads.