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Show Below-Zero Wcathenin Manxjof the Elites rA . - v Kansas City. .Tn 2 with tho thor-mometor thor-mometor rgif)tcrlne 3 below, aud the wind blowing "thirty miles an hour, at ij o'clock, this morning, this city is experiencing Uio "overest cold of the season. The morcury Is below tho zerdi point all oVt'r Kansas and Mis-sou Mis-sou rh , ' . Texas cxpcrlcnoed zero weather all through the panhandle It was 4 below be-low at Atuarlllob The lowest; temperature In Oklahoma Okla-homa was SltiQlg" t Oklahoma City. In Kansas QivLr.,mKe was from 2 below be-low at WichttiMo 8 below at Dodge City ,; BlUzards sjvept Iowa and Xebraslta lasi..hlght, tlio wind reaching 10 miles aiyhour at Omalla. Tho temperature in' Nebraska ranged from S below nl Omaha to 10 below at North Platte nnd In Iowa Irom 2 below nl Des .Alolnes to" 8 below in the northwestern northwest-ern part of the state. The lowest temperature liK-Mlsaouri was below at St. Joseph m 7 o'clock. Topeha, Iy'is.-. Jan. 2. The mercury dropped in 3 degrees below zero at S o'clock this "morning. This is tho lowest low-est point reached (his winter und the cold is accompanied a 25-milo wind. The trains on all the railroads aro from one l0 two hours late and the east bound train crews all report trying experiences in western Kansas. Kan-sas. On thCjHock Island train No. 2S, due here, early this morning, they had an unusual experience. While running at uU Bpeod, the top of a passenger coach was blown off, creating cre-ating a panics among the passengers, but no one' was Injured. The damaged dam-aged cochwns abandoned at Belleville Belle-ville and tho train reached Topeka two hours later Tho telegraph lines along the Rock Island aredpwn and tho trains are being operated with difficulty. |