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Show Coldest IpeS! of j Two tes ie Utah Zero Weather in Salt Lake and Re- mnrknble Mercury Tumbles at p Outside Points. j Keen, bitter cold, the kind of cold thnt ciccps thro.igh warm clothing and makes f limbs and body ache to the very bones, e kept up all day yesterday and last night. J Morning's early hours saw thermometpra 1! all over L'tan dropping. In the elty the l wind eddied around con. era and crept Into 1 the marrow of those who had to walk tha streets; and in the country -It swept sc-emlngly from the regions of icy wastes Ej that border the pole. Even after sunset, a uheu it began to die away. It occaslonallv U rose again, and rising, made iho ic'v air K cut like a knife. Prom all over Utah came reports of un- B procedpnted temperatures. This was the & cr.se Suturduy ynight, r.nd yesterday the fj rti.orts were repeuled. But, as is always W the case, the. real tragedy of the bitter a weather was to be found In Salt Luke City. Here many really suffered. H Local charity, organisations were kept 9 rsy yesterday Tho Salvation Army did much work. Ragged men and women. H with 3cant clothing, found ready help as ? seen as their cases were known. And N more than one fnmilv. where children U shivered beneath tattered -bed clothing in R the lack of any fire, was made happy in is the knowledge that their hardships were I fr,r fli limn .,, iAAn, i i.i rfii "- icaai. none Willi. Thermometers were kept busy sliding inelr mercury columns down toward the bulbs Saturday night and yesterdav. This was true In all parts of the Inte'rmoun-tpin Inte'rmoun-tpin section. At Mounds it was reported that tho mercury stood 10 below at 11. 0 last night; at Thompsons. 10 below, at Grand Junction, 7 below . at Park City Si below early yesterday morning: and at Hebor .City, 31 bolow. Helper had zero weather. In Denvor tho thermometer stood at 22 degrees below zero Saturday night. Tho unofficial record for this city on Saturday night was 5 degrees below be-low zero, and 12 below wao reported from Calder's park. A supposedly reliable thermometer ther-mometer hi the central part of tho city stood at 3 degrees above zero at 1 o'clock this morning, the Indications being that the backbone of the cold snap was broken But It Is the coldest weather Utah has experienced for two years, at least, the extreme record of last winter having been C degrees above zero. Many fowls and pigeons In Salt Lake Citv perished on their rooata Saturday night. Trains wero late, although no serious se-rious delays occurred. In tho pollco station sta-tion t,ho half dozen applicants for a night's lodging who faced the desk sergeant, ser-geant, crept close to the warm radiators as they gave their names. With reluctance reluct-ance yesterday morning's squad of thcc proletariats quit their warm quarters to again fnce the blasts of a genuine winter's win-ter's day. f |