The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-12-10
STORM STRIKES
ENTIRE COUNTRY
Heavy Rains in South, Snow
in WeSt-Many Cities Des-
titute of Coal.
ZERO REPORTS GENERAL
Suffering in Wake-Shipyards
Shut Down-Schools Close.
Street Cars Cold.

Chicago. Dec. 10.-(A. P.)-Below
zero temperatures prevailed today in
virtually all sections from the Mis-
sissippi valley to the Sierra Nevada
mountain region and the cold wave
began it's eastern invasion with sub
normal temperatures of 20 to 50 de-
grees. In parts of the western coun-
try already hardest hit by the fuel
shortage brought about by the strike
of bituminous coal miners, many
small cities and towns were destitute
of coal and suffering was reported.
Montana and northern Idaho were the
chief sufferers. Tat condition
served to heighten interest in the ac-
tion of the miners wage scale COM
mittee meeting at Indianapolis, Ind,
to consider President Wilson pro-
posal for settling the strike after
failing to reach an agreement yester-
day.
AS a further coal conservation
measure the most : severe curtail-
ment of passenger train service ever
known was effective toda; with ex-
tension of the federal railroad ad-
ministration's saving order to the
eastern region. Presaging extension
of the cold wave into the east and
southeast heavy transforms were
prevalent through those sections yes
terday with extensive property dam
age in Georgia. Alabama and Mis-
sissippi, and loss of three lives near
Atlanta, Ga, in flood waters
In the western country, where al
most record snowfalls accompanied
the unreasonable cold. rail and wire
communication also was handicapped.
In Washington and Oregon one of the
worst snowstorms in a decade was
recorded.
California to Oregon. F..
About Redding, Cal, five inches of
snow had fallen today, an unsual
amount for that region. 1t gradually
deepened northward to Bend, Ore,
where twenty eight inches, the heav-
lest since 1884. Near Astoria, Ore,
logging camps were forced TO close.
tasrsIMo Portland 40rasa a@isirymrdB atvnrt
forced to shut down by the snow and
cold and the schools there have been
closed.
A heavy storm was off the northern
Pacific coast and storm warnings
have been displayed up and down the
coast today.
NO general moderation was foreca ST
for today. although in some sections
| of the west weather bureaus said
that thermometers Would rise by to-
morrow. The wide range of the cold
weather shown was by reports OF
sub-zero readings from these places:
Lander, Wyo.. "a below; Havre
Mont. 30; Wiliston, Mont, 30; Helena
and Miles City, Mont. and Cheyenne
Myor 20; Devils Lake, Mimi, 26;
Denver, 20; North Platte, Neb., 90;
Minneapolis, Mimi, and Spokane
wash, s; Omaha and Concordia,
Kan, 6, and Chicago, 3.
In New York City, Lewis Nixon
puplc service commissioner, said he
had taken steps to enforce the fuel
saving order and it would be put into
| erect Immediately. New York's white
ilsht district was ablaze with almost
lts normal glow and the retail stores
and hotel lights were not dimmed
to a noticeable degree.
In Chicago downtown streets were
in semi darkness, lighted only by
street lights and lights in stores and
restaurants where business was not
curtalled by fuel restrictions. Pa
irons rode in street cars that were
~ IiN"tIh, btSDItG temperature
| that hoVered abouts zero.
Pittsburgh felt it's first lightIess
! night, due to the miners strike last
night when all electric signs were
cut off.
Kansas City's amusements today
were permitted to open for four hours
a day. 7 to IL pm, under new ruI-
| ing by the coal committee which ad
closed such places since Dec. l. 1t
was said the fuel situation there was
| slightly improved.
Washington, Dec. 10.-The western
cold wave today had spread east
ward to the Appalachian mountains
ana southward to the Gulf of Mex
ico and was moving rapidly east
ward over the Atlantic states. Much
lower temperature with a cold wave
tonight and Thursday is Indicated for
the Atlantic states. There will be n
| s!lSht moderation Thursday in the
Mississippi valley.
storm warnings are displayed on
the east gulf coast and on the At.
iantlc coast from Jacksonville to
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