The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-20
Mercury Sinks to rs Early
Today: AII-Time Early
October Low.
STATE FROST IS HEAVY
No Serious Crop LoSSeSs
Roof Fires in City Keep
Department Busy.

Sinking to 25 degrees at $50 this
morning the weather mans mercury
set an all-time low record for the
first twenty days in October in In
dianapolis. In southern Indians
and Ohio records also we're estab-
lished.
The cold wave which came to In
dianapolis Friday after week of
high temperatures, will linger at
least two more days, according to
j. H. Arlington, senior meteoroiog-
ist at the United States weather bu-
reau here.
Temperatures will recede to at
least &c degrees again tonight. and
may break the new low mark estab-
lished this morning.
Laying a heavy frost over all of
Indiana Sunday night, the cold snap
destroyed all growing crops, but loss
Of these will not infiict serious
losses. A late tomato season was
ended by the cold.
Hundreds of Frozen Radiators
Traffic in the city and suburban
territory was impeded this morning
by balky motors, and hundreds Of
motorists were forced to abandon
their autos because of frozen radia-
tors and oil lines.
Caught unawares many were un-
able to obtain anti-freezing solu-
tions for radiators from filling sta
lions and garages which had as vet
failed to stock winter supplies.
The cold wave also brought it's
toll of fires as f1ues, unusued for
several months, spouted sparks that
lgnited more than thirty roofs.
Many Roof Fires
In all, thirty eight fire alarms
were answered over the weekend.
and losses, from $4,000 to a few dol
lars were incurred in twenty-eight
fires. None of the blazes was
serious, and no one was injured.
The home of Charles keenan,.
Stop 8, Madison avenue road, waS
destroyed with a loss of $4,000 Sat-
urday. Damage of $1,000 was done
to a rooming house operated by
Mrs. Leslie Davis, 346 North West
street, Sunday.
While no Indiana government
weather stations reported snow
Saturday or Sunday, light furries
are said to have fallen in extreme
northern districts, and in southern
Michigan.
Fair Weather Forecast
With fair weather forecast for the
next two days, likelihood of snow
here was small, Arlington said
today.
Temperatures lower than the
lowest today have been recorded
later in the. month in preceding
years, but the coolest weather up
to Oct. 20, previously was in 1906,
when 26 degrees we're registered
Oct. II.
Normal for this morning was AZ
degrees, rising to about SO degrees
in the afternoon.
The cold wave spread over Cam
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in which many localities two months
ago were suffering from heat and
drought.
Motorists Are Stranded
The blizzard that gripped west-
ern Canada last week had subsidized
today, but its snow and low tenn
peratures still remained.
The high winds, with snow, had
moved eastward, to western New
York, where it struck fiercely along
the Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
shores.
Hundreds of motorists waited in
crowded hotels, farm houses, jailg
and fire stations in the vicinity of
Buffalo, for their autos to be freed
from deep snowdrifts in which they
were caught Saturday and Sunday.
The lake shore region for more
than fifty miles was bound up in
drifts from four inches to five feet
in depth.