Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-12
Four Deaths in Northern Texas
Are Reported as Result of
Severe Cold; Fuel Shortage
Adds to Suffering,
LOWER TEMPERATURES
ARE PREDICTED
Heavy Snow, Which Preceded
Drop of Mercury Stalls
Many Trainsi Mails Delayed
for Several Days,

Wv NoNfSlNo JOURNAL SPECIAL LEAsEo WsEl
Kansas CITY, Mo-, Jan. 1.-The en-
tire plains states area from the Mis-
7 sissippi river to the Rocky mountains
and from the Dakotas to the Rio
, Grande tonight is experiencing the
most severe weather of the winter
! following a blizzard that ended this
morning after pilng up huge drifts
of snow Record low temperatures
were reported IN Texas and season
records at many other points.
-Four deaths have been reported
and numerous cities and towns are
suffering fuel shortages
Communication Lines Hindcred.
Wire and train communications was
greatly hampered by the storm Scat
tertng reports received at the local
weather office tonight indicated that
the trough of the cold wave was over
this city and surrounding territory to-
night.
The mercury stood at IA degrees
below zero here at that time with a
minimum of IS to Is degrees below
are forecast before morning
The below zero weather reached as
far south as Oklahoma City and Fort
Smith, Ark. both of which places re-
ported below. Wichita. Kans, had
6 below
Colder Temperature Coming.
Kansas has been warned to expect
20 below temperatures by morning,
Topeka reporting a maximum tenn
perature OF Q below today, the cold
est day there since the weather bu-
reau has been established. Smith
Center with 23 degrees below had
the cold weather record for the state.
The heavy snow, badly drifted. was
interfering with rail and wagon traf-
fic. Missouri Pacific passenger
train stalled in a drift eight miles
west of Albany, Kans, Thursday
night was not released today and
cannot be before tomorrow. but the
eighteen passengers are being pro-
vded for and arc not suffering. An
thony has had no mail for two DAYS
and drifts of snow twenty feet deep
are reported there
Gas Supply Stops.
The fuel situation is acute in many
Kansas towns. The coal supply is
entirely exhausted at ottawa and the
people are dependent upon wood. At
PARSONS, on the edge of a natural gas
field, homes having wood or coal
heaters were reported to be extending
shelter to neighbors who have been
l'N''Ni''o 'pbi sac lOi lutl. ~
shortage of coal there served to in-
crease apprehension.
Although the wheat growers of the
state welcomed the snow which broke
the drought, many fields were said
TO have been blown bare, while in the
western section of the state live stock
is suffering severely.
The storm was the worst Oklahoma
City has experienced in fifteen years
and the city was facing increased
privation and hardship because of tho
virtual exhaustion of the coal supply
and gas service inadequate for cook
ing or heating
Trains are behind schedule through
out the southwest.
First Snow in Forty Years.
-Four lives were lost and great dam
age done to the growing vegetables
aud orchards of Texas in storm that
blanketed the northern section of the
state with six inches of snow Mis-
sion, Tex, in the Rio Grande valley.
got snow for the first time in forty
years and Laredo, on the Mexico
border. for the first time in twenty
one years.
Below zero marks were reached by
the mercury all over the Panhandle
district and at Brownsville, in the
extreme southern part of the state,
of 25 degrees caused
fears fore the safety of the cabbage
crop and other vegetables. The snow
viii relieve the drought in the wheat
growing sections, but IN the western
part, where the drought was most
severe, there is apprehension for the
stock already in weakened condition
on many ranges.
Two teamsters in the Burnett oil
field near Wichita Falls cannot be
found and are believed to have per-
ished in the storm. An unidentified
man found near Wichita Falls is ex-
pected to die. An unidentified man
was frozen to death near Fort Worth.