Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-16
COOLEST WAVE
THIS WINTER
HAMPERS CARS
Overheated Furnaces Result in
Giving Fire Department an
Active 4S Hours.
IT'S A FRIGID FEBRUARY

Indianapolis is ShIYerlng To-Day IN
the coolest cold wave of the winter.
At o'clock this morning, when
some citizens were hurrying to work
and others were hugging warm spots,
the mercury rested at zero. Only
one other time this winter has IT
been colder-Sunday the mercury
fell to l below zero at o'clock in
the morning.
Overheated furnaces and hues brought
twenty four calls to the fire department
in the last forty eight hours, ending at
7 o'clock this morning, the department
reported. Most of them were extinguished
with small loss. Many hremen were sui
fering today from exposure during the
extremely cold weather.
FORTY CARS OUT
OF COMMISSION.
Street car operations were greatly I'M
peded. Close to forty cars were TEN
porarfIy out of commission at the West
Washin gton street barns early in the
day because Of pipes in the heating sys
tens being snapped by the cold.
Besides this, according to J. p. Tretton.
superintendent of traffic, sixty two mo-
because Of the cold and other reasons.
At the present time there are 125 car
operators on the sick list. This caused
an additional handicap to service.
Mr.. Tretton said that the broken pipes
in the cars was due chiefly to failure
of the crews to fire up after taking their
cars into the barns. Because of the re
duced schedule on Sunday the service
was not badly hit yesterday, only one car
being reported out of service.
A number of early morning tieups,
too, were directly attributable TO the cold
spell E
PEOPLE SHIVER AS
CARS ARE BLOCKED.
Twenty-eigh street cars were bloc
AIDED on Massachusetts, avenue and Al
bama street at a. m, when an on
bound Central avenue car, No. IS
jumped the track, the rear trucks leal
ing the rails and the car turning aroun <
in such a way that both inbound an
outbound cars were blocked.
The inbound cars we're loaded wi
passeng gers en- route to work, and tn
waited impatiently for fifteen mimi
for the cars TO move. They got q
and walked the remainder Of the
tance to the transfer functions
town. AS the shiverjng former pa
gers faced the cold early morning
en- route to the downtown corners
strings Of street cars. without pa "a
gers, passed them hurrying to max
the time lost by the blockade
The traction lines reported that
schedules did not suffer greatly bee
of the cold.
''The cold wave is gradually disaP
Ing" J. 81. Arlington, weather obser =
said today. The wave started in
northwest, cut southeastward across
Ohio valley and extended in the gulf
gion TO the southern end of Florida.
dianapolis today is in the tail end OF
wave"
The weather now is the coldest Of "a
winter and only eight sor ten times sire
1871, when the weather bureau statio
was established here. has the wealth.
been this cold after the middle Of Feb
ruary.
But COLD WAVE
WILL GO SOON.
The forecs st for Indianapolis Snd VI
cinity for tonight is as follows
Fair weather. with rising tenn
perature. Lowest tonight about 10
above zero"
THE cold wave is moving southwark
said Mr.. Arlington. "snd has reached
the gulf coast Heavy frosts are reported
In New Orleans, where the temperature
was 20 above zero. At Mobile, Ala, II Z
was reported as 81 above today; s.
Tampa. Fla, it was 40 and at Miami
Fla. IL was - above, which is very On
usual for that point.
This is the only cold wave of the sea
son which has taken the southeastward I
course. Several cold waves which orig
mated in the northwest, past above the
Great Lakes and spread over the eastern
fTba ct r q E
was directly in the path of the present
wave. however
THERMOMETER TO
GO UP STEADILY.
The. cold is gradually lessening, the
weather bureau reports show. The
thermometer rose to - above at . o'clock
Sunday afternoon. After going down to
zero early this morning, the mercury
started mp gradually. reaching 1 above at
q. IN. and , above at S p. N. The
thermometer viii rise above 10 above dur
ing the day and 20 back at night, Mr..
Arlington predicts. The indications are
for clear weather for the next few days.
and temperatures will be back TO normal
by the latter part of the week TEN
peratures today in the northwest are Il
to Is degrees higher than yesterday.
Only two other times this winter has
the weather been really zero weather. On
ltet. ~ IL NdS AtEO anu Oi JdH. . II was
1 above zero.
The heaviest fire loss reported was
$1,000 to the Tuxedo Baptist church, 2729
Garfield avenue, which was badly dam
aged Saturday night. An overheated fur
mace is believed to have caused the fire.
The building was ruined inside. Rev.
Z, S. Clutton, pastor. said the custodian
had looked at the furnace only a short
time before the ire started.
". W. Pershing, cousin of Cen. John
]. Pershing. was driven from his home
at 1705 North Illinois street sunday
night Fire started from an overheated
CRATE OF the first floor and the flames
went up the wall to the roof and seri-
ously, damaged the house. The mss was
more than s., 600. A. c. PorteyzA wife
and four children live in the - &sA2use.
They were driven from the kthe
fire. but had time to dress fs ~ ,&< q q.
mt fpfn ho cold