The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-15
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grees: The low reading here tonight,
according to S. D. Flora, local wealth
er observer, will be about 5 degrees.
This is exactly normal.
Little Change Today.
The lowest temperature this morn
ing was 20 degrees at 7, and
clock. Very little change was ex-
pected during the day. The low read
ing is degrees above the night nor
NAL. The sky was cloudy today and
the clouds are expected to increase
tonight The snow measured IL inches
up to 9 o'clock, but it was light and
the moisture will amount to only one
tenth of an inch
The wind this morning was blowing
at the rate of twelve miles an hour
from the east. The moon tonight rises
at 12:47 o'clock, but will probably be
obscured by the clouds. The highest
temperature on record for this date Is
50 degrees, established in 1913. The
low record, which is also the lowest
January temperature in thirty years
here, is 90 degrees below zero. 1t &C.
Cured in 1883.
Snow on Santa Fee Tracks.
Along the Santa Fe system weather
which is partly cloudy to cloudy" has
been reported. with the lowest tenn
peratures in Illinois. There the mer
curry is lowering around the zero
mark. In Missouri a snow storm is
moving eastward, accompanied by a
temperature of degrees above zero.
At Kansas City light snow was fall
ing this morning and the temperature
was IL degrees above zero. The snow
had not yet reached Illinois, where is
was clear. this morning.
Thru eastern and northern Kansas
there is from half an inch to three
inches of snow. with temperatures of
from 20 to rs degrees above zero along
the Santa Fe lines.
Thru New MeXio there is from half
an inch to seven inches of snow with
temperatures from 5 to 20 degrees
above zero. In the Panhandle of Tex
as there is from three to five inches of
snow and a temperature of % degrees
above zero.
THE weather hasn't interfered with
the operation of trains said E. A.
Goeldner, assistant to the general
manager, this morning. Except for
few trains, everything running thru
Topeka today on all roads was on time.
and the few exceptions We're not more
than fifteen or twenty minutes late.
Tyvo-Tnch Snow at Iittsburg.
ssRittsburg, Kan, Jan. 15.4A snow
amounting to two inches fell in south
eastern Kansas early today. The
thermometer registered 20 degrees
above zero.
Cold Causes Death in Chicago.
9 ! Chicago, Jan. 15.-With zero tenn
peratures prevailing, suffering was
reported today among the poor of
Chicago. Herman F. Schuettler, chief
of police. issued orders that destitute
persons who might, for reasons of
pride. be concealing their condition
be sought out and attempts to al
leviate their conditions made. Off
GERS also were directed to watch for
persons in Railways and in streets
fwar, l,n Gold
One death from freezing was re-
ported, that of an unidentified man,
presumably laborer whose body was
found near the right of way of the
Chicago & Northwestern railway. To
the problem of the cold was added a
coal shortage which, it was asserted,
would assume serious proportions un-
less relief is had within forty-eight
hours.
Heavy Snow in Texas.
Dallas. Tex, Jan. 15.-Northern
Texas was mantled under seven inches
of snow today, the heaviest fall ever
recorded for this section by the Uni
ted States weather bureau. The snow
was general over Oklahoma and
northern Texas and fell as far south
as Austin and as far west as San An
gelo. The fall was almost continuous
from 8 a. m. yesterday, until 10 p. M
Railroad trains are half an hour
to two hours late, while interurbans
are even worse affected Street car
and jitney traffic is inpeded.
Temperatures thruout the northern
part of the state ranged from 20 to %
and a gas famine is threatened in sew
eral cities owing to the abnormal de-
mand.
Four Inches in Tennessee.
Memphis. Tenn, Jan. 15.-Snow
which began falling here last night
early today had attained a depth of
four and one-half inches. Street car
service was for a time impeded, but
normal conditions were resumed be-
fore noon. Eastern Arkansas, north
ern Mississippi and western Tennessee
were within the storm area.