Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-18
STORM SEVERITY
OVER WIDE AREA
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hard fight then to get through from
Milwaukee. Saturday. Is went to Spen-
GER and returned as IT. The scoot was
on time generally. No has been reg
ularly late owing to waits for c. p.
connection. The Sunday sc0ot trains no
longer run. The way freight has been
late most of the time when west bound.
Otherwise the service on the 500 has
been better than that of any road from
(which there is news.
No trains have been cut off from the
500 service so far There are all kinds
of rumors Of curtailment of limiteds
and taking off of sleepers but SO far
nothing has actually been done to
warrant any definite statement
On the G.. NJ - st. =. line through
Wausau and Merrill, Trains ? and g.,
the two best trains OH this road have
been cancelled. The action has caused
great regret in all the cities on the line
as it makes Chicago trips tedious and
slow
Monday Perfect Day
Still Ladysmith came and peeked
out Of the door and on Monday
laughed at a perfect winter day 1t
was poem for the season. Pity was
expressed for the poor souls who had
to live in the south and freeze with a
thin wall and summer underwear. 1t
was no r. " ID. climate that was re-
ported from the sunny land. No one
was freezing up here There was no
fuel famine. Wood was plentiful and
dealers had coal. While the people in
the steam heated flats were shivering
here the old timers were telling how
once it was SO cold that the cllss words
of the men II a camp on the Jump river
froZe in the air and did not thaw out
till spring
Storm Covers Country
When a storm starting at the Rocky
mountains covers the entire country
with few exceptions and those in the
very extreme south and in Upper Wis
cOnsin, it may be agreed that it is some
weather.
Saturdays blizzard, tOrnadoes, and
snow and sleet storms played havoc
from Chicago to the Gulf again. 1t
was a more serious storm than the one
of the Sunday before, with lower tenn
| peratureS, especially in the south. Chi
cagO was buried in snow. No trains
ran out of the city Saturday evening
or Sunday and scores of passenger
| trains were annulled. Some were caught
in drifts on the roads into Chicago and
/ had to remain there until as late as
| Tuesday before they were dug out.
The famous Goth Century Limited on
the New York Central one of the fast
est and finest trains in the world, was
stalled i'll deep drift near Toledo for
hours.
South Frozen Up
In the south, snow and sleet was re-
/ ported at Galveston and New Orleans
and temperatures as low as II above
zero were reported from Pensacola and
other Florida points. The frost line
passed below the lowest known for 80
years but the damage to fruit is not
great as it is in the time of year when
the least damage could be done, but
truck crops in many sections have been
practically ruined. From every point
comes stories Of record breaking cold.
| Indianapolis had 20 below, Omaha %,
Denver 10, Devils Lake, n D. 30, st.
Louis, Mo-, IS
Troop Camps Cold i'm Texas
Texas has been covered with blan-
ket of snow and cold weather has
caused much suffering in some of the
camps. Camp Macarthur has had the
least difficulty with either the cold or
the snow. 1t is better protected but
the mercury hit five below above zero.
Thousands OF men have been laid
off in Chicago on account of fuel
shortage. At the steel mills, the shops
of the International Harvester Co,
Illinois Steel Go. and other large indus
tries the number of men out of employ
ment has reached the proportions of
an army.
Remnants of Old Storm
The snow blanket and blizzard Of
Friday and Saturday last fell upon the
remnants of the terrific storm of a
| WYNN oStoiS gnu lily pS0pIS nav lul yCL
dug themselves out.
| Up OH the Iron Range in Minnesota,
the mercury hit the sub cellar with 81
degrees below
Points in Washburn and Burnett
counties reported 45 below. The snow
storm tied up interurban traffic in Osh
Ikosh. Neenah. Fond dE Lac and
Omro.
| Added to the discomfort of the cold
| in the south can tOrnadOes which
dealt death in wide path through
southern Alabama and Georgia killing
is and wounding hundred more. Hos
pital tents at Camp Wheeler near
Macon, Ga. were blown down leaving
many sick unprotected.
| STATE OF WISCONSIN,, RUSK
| COUNTY, IN CIRCUIT COURT
John Reed, Plaintiff VS.. Elizabeth Reed,
Defendant.
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, TO-