Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-17

thought rail and telegraph service,
which was impaired, would be back
to normal.
One Below at Chicago
Train service on the main lines
into Chicago from the north was
reported demoralized. Temperature
in Chicago at q a. m. today was
one below zero, but the high wind
that ushered in the zero weather of
yesterday had abated somewhat.
Cloudy skies and more or less
colder weather today showed Texas
to be experiencing only the tail
end of the cold wave in the north.
Forecasters here expressed belief
that the reported blizzard i'll the
upper Mississippi valley had passed
in a southeasterly direction.
Late Wednesday afternoon the
Houston weather bureau received
from the district office the follow
ing message: storm warnings for
the Texas coast. Rising barometer
will be ATTENDED by fresh to strong
north winds. Thursday afternoon and
night"
This means; according to govern
ment observers, that the tempera-
ture in Houston probably will be
lowering around the freezing point
| Thursday morning.
The coolest weather of the winter
was in prospect for Oklahoma to-
| day as the crest of the cold wave
| from the north crept into the state.
| Temperatures in the north part of
| the state, it was predicted, would
reach minimum of from degrees
below zero to 10 above. The mini
mum for the southern half of the
state was set at to IA degrees
above.
Colder for South
Colder weather was forecast for
| the southeastern states today, with
the exception of the Florida PENN
sula. A drop to 25 degrees was pre-
dicted for Atlanta, Ga, which would
bring the coolest weather Of the
| winter.
Memphis, Tenn, reported the cold
wave was to renew it's attack today
in Tennessee, Arkansas and Missis-
sippi.
weather in the northern portion of
Louisiana and Mississippi were
promised by the forecaster.
Heavy property damage was
caused and many lives endangered
in the Pittsburg district yesterday
by a sixty mile-an-hour gale, which
sent the temperature down to de-
greeS above zero,
| In pittCbl1rey t1oa aI1tiro third ctorIy
was blown off a brick house. Scores
of persons narrowly escaped injury
when the falling bricks crushed
through and around automobiles in n
funeral cortege; pedestrians on the
south side were endangered when q
huge signboard was torn from it's
mornings; entire tections of the city
temporarily were plunged into dark
ness when wires and poles were
blown down; trees were uprooted
and many window panes were shat
tered.
Houses Overturned
In other sections of Allegheny
county houses were overturned,
trees broken off and street lamps
and poles carried away.
River traffic was paralyzed.
A wave of intense cold, hePalded
by a cutting wind that at times
achieved a seventy-twol nile-an-hour
velocity, brought suffering to New
York today. Scant fuel supplies
quickly disappeared and the day
opened with al barrage of demands
on fuel administrators for emergen-
cy furnace rations.
Early in the morning the weather
bureau rc~0rted the thermometer
down to II degrees above zero, with
the mercury apparently destined to
go lower The north wind had
dropped to less than fifty miles an
hour before daylight, but the cold
did not abate.
The worst blizzard in five years
was sweeping over Ontario today,
with no indications of abating. 1t
was accomDanied s11h zero tenn
lperatures, snow and a sixty-mile-a