Show = 4 INTENSE COLD INEASr Frigid Wave Covers the Middle Section of r 1 the United States I Most i Severe Veather That Has Been Experienced in December in Many YearsMercury Falls Below Zero Mark at Many Points Number of Persons Frozen to Death < < s i i t t Chicago Dec MChicago experienced experi-enced tocay and tonight one of the record for cold snaps on L most severe tho early part of the winter The weather office predicted early in the day that It would prove the most severe weather that the city had felt In twen tyfive years In the month of December Decem-ber and tonight no flaws could be found in the prediction Three deaths were reported to the police during the flay as having been caused by the cold They were DED p t John Grammar a teamster John Hayes no occupation died of fexpoaurc Unidentified man dropped dead at the Intersection of Klnzlo and Wells streets death caused by heart failure Superinduced by cold At daylight this morning the mer fcury In the weather office stood atS below at 6 a m In the evening the temperature began to fall and at S pan p-an It 1 was S below The prediction by itho weather offIce was for 15 below by Sunday morning a figure that will 1 nark u Ute 00 coldest In December for a quancr or a CCJUU y TRAFFIC IS DELAYED TJie cold weather today proved very hard on the traction companies and many of the street car lines had much difficulty In running their cars The I sleet and snpw of last night froze on I tho trolley wires and on the rails making mak-ing it almost impossible In places to j move the cars The elevated roads all I of which operate with tho third rail i were in bad shape all morning because tof the Ice and It was found necessary i to send out men to remove all the Ice from tho third rail before any speed could bo made with the trains The ice nud snow drifts also caused delay to I the railroads many trains particularly I those from the West being from forty I minutes to two hours behind time 1 I COULD NOT KEEP WARM I In the large downtown stores where I Christmas shoppers were in force It was found impossible to keep l the buildings at a comfortable temperature and tho clerics wore cloaks and overcoats over-coats as they stood behind the counters coun-ters The cold was accompanied by a gale from the northwest that made the suffering much more severe KANSAS AND MISSOURI FROZEN AU Weather Records for First Half oi December Broken Kansas City Mo Dec HThe temperature tem-perature here today ranged from 2 to S degrees below zero The present cold weather breaks all Weather bureau records for the first half of December r Nearly all trains are late In arriving I The temperature here will fall to 10 or 12 below zero before daylight the r weather officer says and then will rise steadily At Moberly Mo tonight the i I temperature was 15 below f FRIGID IN ST LOUIS t The coldest wave for this time of the year In nineteen years was experienced t in St Louis last night and today Tho records of the Weather bureau there show but two instances of colder I weather at this season since the records l began in 1871 thirty years ago In the twentyfour hours beginning at 7 a m yesterday and ending at 7 a m this morning the mercury fell from 51 I above zero the greatest drop registered in the citys history Most of the in cdmlng trains were from ten minutes to four hours late wires were In trou I ble city traffic was Impeded and there was great Suffering among the poor Added to the frigidity of the atmos phere was a strong wind traveling at the rate of twentysix miles anhour ul7 accompanied by hall rain and snow Kansas is experiencing no relief from the cold wave that truck the State iajt night i > The temperatures tonight are slightly higher the average being about zero As cold as 1C degrees be 10w zero Is reported In the central i por tion of the Stale tonight Empofla thermometers registering that figure Lives lost so far as known t I number tonight SX only three Reports tell j 1erc1er on the plains who have not or returned yet 1 perJsled and they are feared to have STOCK PERISHES c I Damage among stock is Wl M1c widespread t farmers rtMarnl0rs Were not Prepared for the change In the weather and 1110 adequate had protectIon f9r their ant 2nals Consr I COhsrdera1lc though tock has died numbers at this time btaInnble are un the A dispatch Wheat In from Peabody < Kan Bays that district killed has been by the cold SaUna Wheat reports that there Is In badcondltJon viII bc conuitlon but saved it the I 1Ight There has been cold abates to Wheat region no snow In the and thc cereal Is unable to thus I wlthslund the Intense cold P I The DAIIAGE IN OKLAHOMA bllzzatd which hM been Ocr Oklahoma ragIng Incc Thursday and Indian TCrritory t Croat damage at midnIght has donc to I stock In w Oklahoma where the WeI3tern prOtOcted and ranges are un I cattlemen had tlclpated tho sudden not an I same Is true In change Thc two territories all portions of the oC The prolonged theisbmmer drought their condition Injured all stock and to vjthtUld the was not good onouSh fierce From north r the Creek f tlon oC Indian and Chcroltce Dn or Intense Territory are lCports blood Indians suffering among the fli med by the drought whose crops were ru r from ISOlacj dlhlct Unverified rumors rJcol1ur amona thf report Several I I Th blizzard Is YOUl1gl1r fullboods ship to the Proving a great hard I tn Who are settlers In the new coun i j shacks living In tents and It J v 1 hn I u4 j ± Va REC UKCORDS ri10 RDS The tWontyfourhour BROKEN tl 7 oclock fourhour perIod endlnS tonight 1138 breaker been a I 101 rccord Since 7 oclock December In NObraSka I l1st ha night the hfUlnt at no tlme mercury I been below 2ero aboVo G c1egl The 6 v as 13 beknf At Inlnlmum for Lincoln I and at Pfpoi 28 b AllIuncQ it way 26 fOJ the Stntl belor Thc average I was about the range 16 h lor In I fCCt or fnow COlntl whero there Is two stock Is there will be nome Suffering and nr RhceJ loss Ten ntloads from the Northest I Llfl0ii t6c1a reached When unloaded en iqj c t r the East hap frozen to death It Wus round that 148 I At Omaha ihc pcraturerralJ Iowan driy I4ILtIUlOjIto lG be ARCTIC VEATHER t I WiiConsin W PPcdins in Severest Cold Wave forYears I P UlwaUkcc Wis Ico l1 ln 18 11YIScon Wrapped In I the Severest Dccem tiJi mI ber cold wayo known in many years The coldest point an the State heard from Is Plainfield which reports 35 degrees below aero Other itlcs reporting re-porting low registration are Mondovi 32 Baraboo 24 La Crosse 23 Green Bay IS Madison I6t Oshkoshr IS and MaYJncttc 11 nil below zero At 9 oclock tonight Milwaukee thermometers thermome-ters registered 10 degrees below or 1 degree above the lowest point of the day The figures show a drop In the fortyeight hours of 41 degrees The total snowfall which ended last night was four Inches Steam railroad rail-road trains were a trifle late today but streetcar traffic was unimpeded except on one suburban line to Waukesha Wau-kesha which suffered from high drifts So far one death from the severe cold has been reported in the State that of Philip Kronenbprger an Inmate In-mate of an almshouse at Wauwatosa He was 71 years old He was found dead this morning In the vicinity of the Wauwatosa high school where It Is l supposed he was overcome at a time 1 when he was seeking shelter The local weather officials expect that the thermometer will show a temperature ot 20 degrees below zero tomorrow morning INTENSE IN MINNESOTA Temperature of ThirtyNino Below Zero Is Reported St Paul Minn Dec HThe Northwestern North-western States during the past forty eight hours have re parted the severest sever-est cold wave over known during the month of December All stations report re-port recordbreaking lows ranging from 15 to 39 below Park Rapids in northern Minnesota reported the latter lat-ter figure Coming as it did after mild weather I the cold was severely felt but so far as reported but one person perished This was Joseph Zulager a farmer 65 years of age living near St Cloud I Minn He was returning from a visit to a neighbor and his J sleigh overturned over-turned leaving him senseless upon the prairie where he was frozen to d ath The cold wave was not preceded by a blizzard the snowfall being very light consequently there was only a alight delay in the running railway trains THROUGHOUT TH SOUTH In Atlanta Georgia There Was 0 Drop of Fort Degrees Louisville Ky Dec HThe thermometer ther-mometer which registered 25 degrees above zero at 7 a m fell to 4 degrees above at midnight and Indications are that zero will be reached in a few hours The cold wavo Is general throughout this State and In other I Southern States At Atlanta Ga the I thermometer dropped 40 degrees between be-tween daylight and midnight when the thermometer registered 24 degrees above zero In Knoxvllle Tenn thero was a drop In temperature of 40 degrees de-grees by noon and at midnight the thermometer ther-mometer registered 25 degrees above zero The first general snow of the season fell throughout Kentucky today Snow Falls in Kentucky Louisville Ky Dec HThe first general snow of the season In Ken tucky Is falling today and a cold wave Is being felt throughout practically practcly the entire State The stte mercury fell 40 degrees during the night DUB TO COLD V AYE Tho death of two worklngraen In Chl workingen ago yesterday Is attributed to the frigid iyJnRper frigd Jasper Walker a negro was frozen to death on tho streets t > C Marshall Mo last night Marshol Mrs Joseph Duke nged 50 was found In her homo In Leavenvorth Kan frozen to death Layenworth Joseph ZulaKcr C5 years of age a farm 61 nJ t3rm er living In Benton county Minn fell Jlnn in the snow and froze to death within forty I rods of Ills home ucth wihIn |