OCR Text |
Show I CDLDtST III OF PRESENT SEASOFJ Frigid Wave Sweeps 0vef Country From MiS80uri River to Atlantic. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 26.-Tojl7 j the coldest December day in g,?! in thirteen years. Temperatures'! from one to four degrees below J! were reported from various towns ft! morning. Western Missouri todav J j perienced the most severe weather, the season. Temperature tonight it;d cated a passing of the cold wave 1 ST. LOUIS. Xsc.o. 26. Two men fli j J col.l and exposure here todav an3 A U-i-a of a third man were so batlly V3 II is oelieved amputation will he JT sary. Numerous cases of froet bit. 1 other suffering were reported, while ',3 temperature varied between 23 arvi i ' greet: above zero.1 -Dt Prom Omaha to the Atlantic (J zero weather prevailed vesterdar i7j wake of a cold wave which orioua'j m Manitoba and swept southward u eastward. Cold weather records shattered at many points where ofB cial weather reports are maintained Barre Vermont, with a report of S degrees below zero, was the most ft 4 spot on tho map. Other cold ri" were Charles City, la., 24 helow-'u erosse, Wis., 24 below; Peoria, Hi "5 below: Davenport and Des lloioe;" 14 below: Devils Lake, N. D I low; St. Paul, Minn., 23 below'; Grre Bay, Wis., 18 below; Chicago, 4 brisn Telegraph and telephone toenail, reported many "cold weather breab ' duo to the contraction of the wirej Gangs of linemen were particular;'' busy repairing wires in four states' ij dinna, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. Kailroad trains were delayed by tb extreme cold. ' |