The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-23
5OLD WAVE DOES
Much DAMAGE To
NORTH SECTIONS
ailroads Endeavor to Keep
Tracks Clear; Schedules
on Many Roads Seri-
ously Crippled

CHICAGO.--The cold wave that has
whole northwest in its grip for
ore than "a hours, continued there
day and spread south and east.
A drop in temperature was felt
rly today in Chicago and the mer-
Try kept sinking as the day ad'
.nced. BY tonight, the thermore-
ter was expected to be lowering
)out 10 degrees above zero, accord
to the weather bureau forecast
though yesterday Chicago had its
arnest temperature for Feb. 20,
nee the establishment Of the weather
ireau here in 1871. The mercury
.sterday reached g..
High Temperature Reported.
Illinois and Indiana which reported
gh temperature yesterday were
aginning to feel the cold snap today
Id Indications We're that it would
owe farther eastward rapidly. Biz
.rdly conditions prevailed early to-
" throughout the northwest The
'eond day Of the most severe storm
the year found the snowfall sub
ding in the eastern part OF the Da-
0tas.
Temperatures were falling rapidly
ith five 10 - degrees below zero
Schedules Are Crippled.
Train schedules and wire commun!-
alton continued TO be seriously in
,rrupted and in some cases complete
tied up.
Early today one death had been re-
orted and an indirect result Of the
orm, a woman being killed at Ro-
hester. Mimi through short cir
lited electric wire
Sweeping in from the Rocky noun
lin region, the storm which began
uesday night with lightning and
lunder, snow, hail, sleet and rain
as reported as clearing up along
lie state line between Minnesota and
orth and South Dakota.
Winds ranging from 30 to so miles
hour, swept the light snow in the
akotas into huge drifts and blew
yer telephone and telegraph poles.
lmestown, y. D., reported - below
ero.
Snow still Falling.
Northern and southern Minnesota
nd western Wisconsin continued in
le grip of the blizzard and the snow
as still falling early today. piled
Ugh by the fierce winds. Duluth,
ported nearly 80 inches Of snow.
ith drifts in many places more than
feet high. Except for occasional
srvice on one line downtown, no
rect cars are running in Duluth.
TENDERS of the tank corps, national
uard in that city were out with
leir tanks carly today bucking the
riffs in an effort TO clear the way
)r a partial resumption Of traffic.
lost trains ont Of Duluth were an
uled but several we're started for
le Twin Cities.
Railroads running out OF the Twin
tiles were making efforts to keep
leir crack trains running, both west
nd east. but many were from 10
hours late and several were report.
in drifts.
Virtually all branch line trains were
bandoned and no attempt was made
move freight
Several Men Injured.
Several men were slightly injured
hen a freight train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and ST. Paul railway
estbound. collided with a switch en-
Inc in the yards at Aberdeen, 5
}. The blinding snow storm was
lamed for the accident.
Several hundred poles belonging Z
ne American Telegraph and Tele
hone Company between Tomah anC
varrens, Wis. a distance OF abou
30 miles were snapped off durins
he sleet storm. AS q result OF this
communication between the Twin Cit
IS and La Crosse, Wis, and Chicago
'as Knocked out. Linemen said {
,ould be several weeks before th'
amage could be repaired. No est
,ate OF the loss was available today
Wires TO F1rihault, otawanna an,
outhern Minnesota points also wer
ulled down.
In some parts OF southern Minneso
a. the ground was covered with fron
no TO three inches OF tee over IN
lghways
children skated 10 and from school
even high school students OF We
omc. MINI. seated eight miles I
'airmont on tho public highway
'hieh was covered with ice as smoot
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