The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-23

Chicago. Feb. 22-rhe cold wave
that has held the whole northwest in
its grasp for more than twenty-four
hours continued rthere today and
1 spread south and east.
The drop in temperature was felt
/ early today in Chicago and the mer-
curry kept sinking as the day adj
vanced. BY tonight the thermometer
was expected to be lowering about
/ the 10 above zero mark, according to
weather bureau forecast, altho yester-
| day Chicago had its warmest tenn
perature on Washington's birthday
since the establishment of the weather
/ bureau here in 1871, when the mer-
curry reached 67 degrees.
Cold Wave Sweeps Eastward.
Illinois and Indiana, which reported
high temperatures yesterday were
| beginning to feel the cold snap to-
day and indications were that it would
move farther eastward rapidly. Biz
/ zard conditions prevailed again early
| today thruout the northwest. The
! second day of the most severe storm
of the year found the snowfall sub
siding in the eastern part of the Ds-
| kotas.
Temperatures were falling rapidly
with to 2 degrees below zero re-
ported in western Minnesota and the
Dakotas.
One Death From Storm.
Early today one death had been re-
ported as an indirect result of the
! storm, woman being killed at
Rochester, Mimi, thru a short cir
cuited electric wire.
| Sweeping in from the Rocky Noun
tain region the storm which began
Tuesday night with lighting and
thunder, snow, hail, sleet and rain.
was reported clearing up along
the state line between Minnesota and
North and South Dakota.
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Winds ranging from so to SO miles
an hour swept the light snow in the
Dakotas into huge drifts and blew
lover telephone and telegraph poles.
jamestown, n. D., reported IL below
zero.
Northern and southern Minnesota
and western Wisconsin continued in
the grip of the blizzard and snow was
still falling early today, piled high by
the fierce winds. Duluth reported
nearly thirty inches of snow With
drifts in many places more than
twenty feet high.
Use Tanks TO Clear Pathway
Members of the tank corps ma
tional guard in that city. were out
with their tanks early today bucking
the drifts in effort TO clear the way
for a partial resumption of traffic.
Several men were slightly injured
when a freight train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad. west
bound, collided with a switch engine
in the yards at Aberdeen, S. d. The
binding snowstorm was blamed for
, the accident.
Several hundred poles belonging to
the American Telephone and Teie-
graph company between Tomah and
| Warrens Wis, a distance of 100
miles, were snapped off during the
Children skated to and from school.
seven high school students of Wei
; come, Mimi, skated eight miles to
Fairmont on the public highway.
which was covered with ice as smooth
! as glags.
r Strong Northwest Wind at SaIina
Salina, Kan, Feb. 23.=Clear skies
all night brought a temperatureJo Jof 3
above this morning. but with a strong
northwest wind still blowing.
5 Drop of Fifty Degrees.
: Hutchinson, Kan. Feb. 23.-Altho
the sky was clear and a bright sun
was shining this morning. the ther-
mometer registered degrees above
zero. a drop of SO degrees since 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The wind
! which has blown steadily here for
two days. still continued this morning.
Arkansas City Secs IL Degrees Above.
Arkansas City, Feb. 2S.-Tempera-
ture here last night was IT degrees
above zero clear with high north
wind this morning. Rainfall Wednes-
day was one inch.
Z No Serious Damage by Cold.
I Kansas City, Feb. 23-Persons Iiv-
ing in most sections of the southwest
slipped, skidded or skated about their
I business today as a result of a severe
: glaze storm. which prevailed over q
wide area Warm, soaking rains which
! fell yesterday over the greater part oe
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and
r northern Texas turned to sheets of
. ice when the temperature suddenly
dropped downward during the night
The phenomenon was the first of its
. kind this winter.
Weather reports were that no serf-
r Gus damage would be done by the cold
snap. it being stated that despite the
warm weather Of the last few weeks.
!; budding in most of the states had not
1 yet begun.