Show KANSAS REPORTS EIGHTEEN DEGREES BELOW ZERO I KANSAS CITY Jan 6 Ei Eighteen Eighteen degrees c below zero was recorded unofficially un un- officially in Kansas today the lowest temperature turo in this part of tho the southwest south west in twelve t years vears Tint intense cold wave Ia covered Missouri and reached into Oklahoma Arkansas and T Texas Railroad Rail Bail road sched were still nIce Illes were still demoralized A shortage of natural gas caused much h discomfort rt or faIn in iii western Missouri and in eastern east east- ern era and cE central Kansas as who depend almost almost al al- most solely loll n upon on gas for fuel and on the plain of western Kansas u pro pro- cattle were reported dying by the hundreds At Topeka Kan the mercury attlio g government weather bureau au registered 5 51 degrees below at 8 S o'clock thi this morn morn- in ing while at the thc same time a standard government thermometer at the surface i of the earth seventy live feet lower recorded 18 IS b below lo The government thermometer at Ottawa Ot Ot- t- t tawa Kan Ran recorded 16 below below- the coldest coldest cold cold- est since 1898 S. S II In Missouri the weather bureau at Kansas City reported 1 4 below officially with street thermometers 30 10 0 below helow mid arid St. St Joseph unofficially Joseph unofficially reported 1 13 Ui be be- e. e low At Fort Smith Kan it was Tas 16 above at Abilene Tex Tx 16 above an and 1 at Fort Worth 20 above zero |