Show I COLD WAVE L ASTE TO THE IDE EAST Wintry Weather From the ther r Pacific Coast to the Shores of the Atlantic Washington Jan an a special bUlletin today Prof Willis L Moore chief of the weather bureau warned all points throughout the northeastern part of the co country of the approach of a severe storm It is of marked in intensity intensity and was first noted over the plains states 1 Officials of the bureau predIct the storm area will Increase In Intensity and move eastward attended by general pre precipitation within the next hours houra In the districts east of the sippi river The cold wave that came out ot of the northwest has eastward attended by decided falls in temperature throughout the east and as far south as the northern portions of tho gulf states Kansas City Mo Io Jan ISnow and sleet fell over the greater grenter portion of oC the tue valle vailey toda today b by a cold north wind In Iowa and Nebraska the storm took on the proportions ot of blizzard a and rail rall railway wily way street car ir traffic suffered Buffered In the tue southwest there was no serious ne with traffic although the fall of snow and sleet In Missouri Ran Kan Kansas sue sas and northern Oklahoma was the heaviest lest iest of the thA season Grass Valley VaHey Cal Jan water pipe In Grass Valley Including tile the fire mains was frozen solid at I I sunrise today when the thermometer registered S degrees above zero tile the i coldest weather recorded here In many years ears A repair crew has been at work all day thawIng out the fire lines and preparing them to withstand another cold night The camps In tile the higher mountains are cut off by the snow fall and It has haR been Impossible to move freight and supplies to them for or several days New rew York Jan thermometer touched 9 degrees above zero at 10 tonight and was still sUll going down ac according according cording to the local weather bureau r au Upstate points report zero weather and the coldest of tile the winter In northern Continued on Page Eight I n COLD WAVE MAKING HASTE TO THE EAST Continued From Page One point points the temperature ranged from 25 2 to io below zero The Atlantic battleship feet fleet which wi will sai sail on Thursday for Guantanamo Cuba was Inconvenienced at Its anchorage In Inthe inthe the Hudson river today by the great Ice floes Many big warships dragged their anchors and It was with difficulty the vessels were kept at a safe distance from fromI I ech each other Denver Jan herry creek an or orI I diminutive stream that flows through a low section of Denver Is now fied filled with an Ice jam that alarms bust busi business bustness ness men and residents residents For a quarter ot of ota ofa a mie mile tIre the stream Is choked with ith Ic ice that threatens to sweep al all the bridges It The jam Is now pled piled high about the Logan street bridge and the tho back water floods many houses A force of a hundred bundred men Is trying to break the blockade The last destructive Ice jam jamIn In Cherry creek was In ISS ISIS Lincoln Neb Jan The street car serice service here Is completely paralyzed in the lines to the suburbs being snowed Des Moines Ia Jan Moines Is In the grasp of a severe snowstorm today Trains are late and street car r service Impeded Zero temperature minimum accompanies the storm The durIng the night was 4 degrees below zer i Omaha Jan high schools and many of the graded schools are closed today on account ot of the snow blockade The snowfall tn In northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota Is reported I as hal half a foot adding new handicaps to train serice service which has been moro more seriously demoralized by weather con this winter than ever before during so protracted a period The temperature ranges around five fIe below zero but there Is no wind Arkansas Cit City Kan Jan st sleet and snowstorm of the tho season prevailed here today Saina Kan ICan Jan one foot deep had falen fallen here up to noon and prospects are that there wil will be two feet of snoW on the ground before night The temperatureS temperatures averages 9 degrees above I Siou Sioux CI City la In Jan svere severe snow snowstorm snowstorm storm here toay today crippled street car service and delayed traffic on railroads I I Norfolk Va Jan the wind windI I blowing from to 48 mies miles an hour from the northwest the Virginia Carolina Carolina and andi i Maryland toasts were today swept by a winter larland gale with high seas which mate mateI made madeI I lt j dangerous for al all shipping caught at atsa atsa sa A number of sailing vessels put Into I Hampton Roads Kansas City Jan In central and western Kansas the fall faU of snow was I the heaviest In ten years ears and f it extended west to the Colorado lne line In western Kansa t V began faUng falling at mid midnight midnight night last m ail l b by this morning it i was a foot deep In that porton portion or of the state trains on all railroads were late I Des Moines Ia Jan Rock RockI I Island westbound passenger train known as the Big Five FIe struck a Wabash freight train at a crossing here today tOdar and trains on the Rock Island Wabash and Chicago Great Western were ted tied up tip se my eral hour hours The engineer on the pas passenger passenger failed to see the Wabash abash train In inthe th the blinding storm Topeka Kan Jan Inches of snow has falen fallen here and It Is accompanied accompanied by driving sleet sleet ChIcago ago Jan tonight was by a genuine bUzzard blizzard the wind blowing 4 40 mies miles an hour and driving before It sheets of Icy sleet sleet |