The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-01-17
Disease New Ally
OF Storms, Water
In Flood Districts
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NNV11kAkA0CO AGOIu U8KS ONS
with the mercury at those points be-
tween 10 and 16 degrees below zero.
The mercury fell to as low as 50 de-
grees below zero in South Dakota last
night, Rapid City reporting that
minimum. Watertown had 80 below,
Sioux Falls and Bookings 80, Huron
and Aberdeen %, Mitchell %, Pierre
"a, and Yankton q. :
Highways in eastern South Dakota
were blocked by drifts. Strong wind
blew light snow that fell yesterday.
Bus trips were Cancelled out Of Sioux
Falls and trains were late.
Rivers that had run wild earlier
in the week skunk back to their beds,
but the cold that checked their ram
pages brought added misery to per-
sons who had been driven from their
homes by the high waters. Many
places were drifted high. with snow,
and in the urban centers sheets Of
glass carpeted the boulevards.
Midwest Hit Hard
Coming out of the Rockies. the cold
descended upon virtually the entire
central and northwest, but it was up
on the Mississippi river banks Of
Iowa, Illinois. Minnesota and Missouri
that it trod heaviest.
At Minneapolis 1t was IL below;
Keokuk, Iowa, was numbered with 6
below and at Quincy, ILL.,, 1t was only
one degree higher. Down the river,
the blast tempered itself: at St. Louis,
the thermometer wavered around S
above. while at Cairo, ILL.,, it was Is
above.
Zero was predicted for Chicago to-
day, accompanied by snow. In the
exposed suburbs and surrounding
lower Lake Michigan area, the mer-
curry was expected to drop to s below
Along many rivers. the flood crest
had passed far downstream until now
the lower stretches of the Mississippi
were cxpectant of high stages.
In southern Indiana, tho flood con-
/! dition was still serious. At VINCE
mes, a crisis was expected today In
the looked : fer crest of the raging
Wabash. Spreading throughout the
city as the waters rose, q smallpox
epidemic numbered As cases yesterday
and added to the misery of flood and
cold.
Red Cross and state health depart
ment workers assumed control Of the
relief work in the city and surround.
ing area.
East of the blizzard bound peaks
OF the Rocky Mountains, there lay q
vast land of snow and arctic tenn
peratures. iaShed by the climactic
spasms of the winters worst storm.
Approximately ne-third of the Unit
ed States was whipped by frigid
winds which brought a temperature
Of Sc degrees below zero in Montana.
Two Freeze To Death
Two persons. Carl Miller. IS. and
Mabel Dennis. %, were frozen near
Piochc. New, bringing to eight the
death toll of the killing cold in the
last three days.
At Cheyenne. as the mercury stood
at % degrees below zero, q 30-inch
water main froze and burst near the
officers quarters at Fort Francis e.
Warren.
1t was estimated 1000, 600 gallons Of
water flooded a restricted area. Tele.
phone service in all directions from
Cheyenne was demoralized.
In Montana there vas not q point
In the state with q temperature
above the zero mark and average
readings were 10 degrees below the
low point yesterday. Snow fell 1T
several points.
The thermometer of the Anaconda
company's pump station at Silver
Lake, 12-miles west Of Anaconda,
registered the record mark Of 56-be-
low and the terrific cold brought the
mercury to the minus 48 point ct Bas-
in. 40 below at Georgetown Lake. 80
below at Billings, and 80 below at
Livingston.
Nebraska and Iowa suffered only
in sslighter degree and even farther
south, in Nevada, New Mexico, Okla
homa, Kansas and Missouri, the
ocean of cold air spread and numbed
the countryside.
Snow fell in Kansas City as the
thermometer dropped to the lowest
point of the year. five below. Dodge
City reported eight below and In Ok
lahoma City 1t was zero.
Icy blasts. accompanied by extreme
cold. strengthened winters grip In the
Pacific northwest states but Califor.
MIA experienced relief from freezing
temperatures under the stimulus Of q
general rain.
Although California irregations and
water power interests looked with
favor on the storm 1t brought danger
Of starvation to nearly 5000 head Of
cattle in the northern part Of Cali
fornia. Heavy SHOWS which have
blenketed grazing lands and shrub
berry in that section r reported to
have split up herds and caused SER
ious worry to cattlemen. Pack trains
loaded with feed were attempting to
break through the drifts.
Killed BY Train
In Spokane, q blizzard caused one
fatality when Miss Virginia Holcomb.
her vision obscured by the falling
snow, walked in TIE path Of q Great
Northern railroad train and was kill
ed.
A bowling gale, accompanied by q
l2-foot. tide and 4Q-foot waves raked
the Tacoma waterfront late : last
night, wrccking q ferry ship. which
resulted In suspension Of intercity