Show GUHY HITS 1 LOSE SE TO 3 9 BELOIN ElOW INS S lI I Mark Is Reached at atI I iS I 15 15 o'Clock This Morn- Morn fc Huntsville Is One Coldest Places in U. U S. S Gets Down 49 Under Zero Hun- Hun eds ds of Chickens Freeze Warmer Wanner Days to Come I the for tor a return of ot Mentioned good old days pers per- per s in tn the gelid atmosphere tills valley Friday morning when mercury dropped to 84 degrees low oW zero officially registering the git eat point reached by a a. weather tau eau thermometer In Salt Lake twenty-six twenty years FebrUarY 6 6 1899 twenty-five twenty I rJ one month and eleven days tsi It yonder yonder the the quick silver In- In under tho the congealing toe sd ed up nce nce of degrees below zero there ither But In Dut-In In those days red ela chokers length full skirts kirts ITom and Jerrys were tho the cold Ether ther er style eo so that perhaps the theN the much mind did not so EO N nry menu arranged by the then iro the tho weather bureau SATURDAY citizens visiting their we Yc upon the head bead of ot J. J Cecil er local er-local local we weather ther oracle were oracle were t the promise of ot fair and andr r for tor Saturday Mr Alter n ng to a a. chart explained that brunt of ot the tho present cold wave Ibsen met The local condition of ot tends ends over a a. considerable area section and was Cloned by the th low pressure lit a 1 which followed the recent rm ra m in hero here from the northwest gh pressure movement has set and nd d was waa In evidence at Havre Helena Mont Thursday night which points 20 above was the tho thorest rest 1st t temperature recorded bring bring- section relief relle irom a 8 cold intense for lor those lat lati- os 05 i to that encountered hero here he beneficence o ot that high MUTO area aren is due to extend to toI I region I Saturday Meanwhile 1 cord cold of ot Friday morning tight usia death nd and destruction to torand Stand rand beast cast unable to find proU protin pro- pro U tin don n from tho the Icy air ML AlL iL SUCCUMB where the nights night's low Jow R 5 degrees below zero thirty thirty- S dead ead quail were reported found re In backyards where had eaten a a. Christmas a of ot bread crusts thrown to tom m In m. m Fifteen miles mUes east of ot Ogden hamlet of or Huntsville a minima m 46 to 49 degrees below zero ruh of which hundreds of ot otc oft t c kenn froze trozo on their roosts and In storage cellars were h freezing I the Itie official temperature lJ 41 only 84 degrees below t actually the condition r tn the e roof root of ot the Boston building observers assert that thai the residential section tho the mer mer- was ry caught at points ranging to nearly 20 degrees baThis beri bo- bo ri This Thu contention seems to bo bom bome m me ml out by semiofficial reports ring rIg the past put several days when at tho ho University Utah lUtah usually from Crom 4 to 8 frees ees es below that of ot the tho weather IlU plant On n the east cut and north benches on lat west of ot the tho city proper d n th the mouths of ot tho the canyons ine nl ito Into this valley it is asa ased as- as red ed a residents were caught In Ins s fl of or cold that were consider consider- I Continued on page pago 2 I I I I II I I II II I I MERCURy HITS CLOSE TO NINE DEGREES DECREES BELOW Continued from page 1 abl ably lower than the official city record would Indicate And In this thi s regard although unable to check o othe on the actual difference in conditions condition at the points where the official rested on February 6 1899 and that where it was was was' placed place Friday morning some observers observer advanced ad the opinion that hat from al all aJl available facts the present Is the severest cold ever eer known here Official records for the night nigh show that at midnight it was 5 degrees de degrees degrees de- de grees below At 2 o'clock Friday morning the mercury had risen t to 0 3 below Then it started downward downward downward down down- ward reaching 4 below at 4 o'clock and continuing down until 7 71 15 o'clock when the record of 84 below was reached Immediately It started started startup start start- ed up again and S 8 o'clock the mercury mercury mer mer- cury eury stood at 8 below while at 9 it had recovered five more degrees degree es standing than at 2 below COLD TONIGHT Indications are aro that it will g go above zero during the heat heat of th the e day linger around that point ove 1 overnight over overnight night and Saturday morning recover recover re cover to quite a warm spell a at t I probably 20 to 30 degrees above Weather bureau predictions for Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- are For Nevada fair an and d continued cold for Utah fair fall ant and warmer But Friday night will be cold here the forecast shows While the valley vaHey and surrounding communities were in the throes of ot the most intense cold spell of a generation conditions in nearby canyons were not so 0 bad according according according accord accord- ing to reports from waterworks em em- who gave the lowest recorded record record- ed in City Creek during the night at 10 below while at Mountain Dell in Parleys Parley's canyon the report was as I 8 below as a a To lo support i the authenticity of their figures the I city water department announced that water in n the str streams ams was freer than it has been for several days the flow now being near normal Ice chopping to prevent freezing over is however still the order ordel of the day TRAINS NEAR NORMAL Railroad station agents reporting I t to o local offices announced Frid Friday y ym morning m that low temperatures continued con con con- t prevalent throughout northern northern northern north north- ern Utah and southern Idaho The reported tempera temperatures ures were were Cache Junction 34 below Downey 15 b below be below be- be low McCammon 16 15 below Malad 21 below and Logan 20 below Relieved Relieved Re Re- of the strain of Christmas mail and somewhat accustomed to the continuing cold railroad traffic moved with more facility Friday than it has for several days past Union Pacific trains from the east were running only one hour behind time while Oregon Short Line trains were slightly less delayed Bamberger and Or Orem em electric railways railways rail rail- i ways and th the Utah Light and Traction Traction Traction Trac Trac- tion company announced all trains and streetcars running on time |