The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-14
Blaze Loss Set at $215,00O;
Chicago Firemen Answer
ia Calls
MINNESOTA CHURCH BURNS
Mercury Drops Eight Degrees
in Hour Here Today but
Rises AfterWard

After dropping from eight below
zero to is degrees below between Z
and a. m. today, the mercury start
cd slow but sure rise in Bismarck
and had risen to nine below at noon.
New low temperature records for
the year were established at various
points in the state over the week.
end as North Dakota prairies were
covered with thick blanket of snow.
Fires in the midwest during the
cold spell, which found firemen
working under handicap, brought a
loss of $2l5,00O in five communities.
Bismarck and North Dakota will
be fair tonight and partly cloudy to-
morrow with rising temperature. 1t
will be colder in the southeast and
not so cold in the northwest section
tonight.
Mercury set a new low record for
North Dakota this year when it
dropped to 80 below at Grand Forks
early Sunday. Valley City also was
hit be temperature near the 30 be-
low mark. Coolest temperature in
four years, % degrees below, was
recorded at Fargo yesterday morn
ing. The previous cold mark there
was 80 below December %, 1924.
Temperatures reported in the state
this morning follow: Valley City, 10
below; Minot. % below; Devils Lake,
Is below; jamestown, 10 below; Far
90, 8 below; Williston, 16 below; and
Grand Forks, 10 below.
Roads are in poor to fair condition
throughout the state with many of
the highways drifted.
Snow followed the cold in many
sections, with Albert Lea reporting
(; eight-inch fall during the night.
Albert Lea Church Burns
At Albert Lea the First Presby-
terrain church was destroyed last
night, with loss of $4,000. Fire
caused damage of $4,000 to the Su-
perior Journal building at Superior,
Wis, $4,000 loss in destroying the
Christian church at Redwood Falls,
$30, 900 to business establishments at
Hastings, and left Tyler without
drug store.
One of the low thermometer read
ings of the weekend was at Duluth
where a minus "a was the coolest the
Minnesota City at the head of Lake
Superior has had in II years. Green
Bay, Wis, had 20 below, while tenn
peratures throughout the middle
west with hardly an exception skated
under the cipher mark yesterday and
last night.
Chicago had an official 10 below,
with some suburban thermometers
showing as low as minus II. There
were three deaths directly attribut-
able to cold, and there were several
hospital cases Of persons suffering
frozen hands, feet or faces or per-
sons injured in falls on slippery side
walks and pavements.
Cary, ILL.,. was believed to have
been the coolest spot in the state
Sunday when the temperature hit 81
below. At Pana the snow and I'M
usual cold brought out sleighs for
the first time in a quarter OF GEN.
fury.
ia Fine Alarms.
Among the ia alarms the Chica-
60 fire department answered yester-
day was a spectacular blaze atop the
Foreman National Bank building,
under construction at La Sale and
Washington streets. A salamander
left to keep the concrete from freez-
ing was believed to have started the
fire in the tower, which became a
torch lighting roofs Of surrounding
loop skyscrapers and sending flam-
ing brands to nearby buildings. Scat
folding and tarpaulins from the 25th
floor to the top of the 40-story build
were destroyed by the fire which was
not as costly as it was threatening.
Firemen worked 800 feet in the air
in below zero temperatures, and
came down when the fire was out
coated with ice. The loss was esti-
mated at less than $4,000.
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Wis
consin all experienced the severe
cold. Snow banked railroads, dis
rupting schedules, and many high
ways were blocked.
Temporary relief late today
about 20 above, the weather man
said-was expected to be followed by
new cold, borne across the midwest
by winds from Alaska and accom-
panied by snow.
A sharp drop in temperature, ac-
companied by snow brought sub-zero
weather to many points in New York
state, while in western Pennsylvania
thermometer readings were close to
the zero mark.
Stony Greek had the lowest tenn
perature in New York state with IL
below zero. At Ogdensburg, where
it was IL below zero the St. Law
renee river froze over for the first
time this winter.
A light snow fall ushered the cold
wave into New York City. There
was extreme cold weather through
out Ontario, with AZ degrees below
zero at White River, record for the
province. Temperatures at other
points ranged from 80 degrees below
to 81 below. At Saulte Ste. Marie
the st. Mary's river was frozen over.