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Show BITTER BLAST IN SOUTHWEST Temperature Drops from Zero Downward Snow Falling Over Large Territory. TRAINS ARE DELAYED Blizzard Prevails All Over Kanses Weather Bureau Reports 58 Below in Canada. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 12. The southwest got its first real blast of winter weather today and nature's offerings lived .up to advance notices of the weather bureau. The mercury dropped from thirty-five to sixty degrees de-grees in twenty-four hours in the affected af-fected district and this morning temperatures tem-peratures ranging from zero downward down-ward prevail throughout Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and this section ot Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, too, felt the drop. Snow is falling in much of the territory. "Fresh northwest winds will blow the clouds away tonight and tomorrow tomor-row wo look for temperatures ranging rang-ing from 10 to 20 degrees below zero In Kansas and this section of Missouri," Mis-souri," said announcement of the local lo-cal weather bureau Train Service Delayed. Train service into Kansas City is delayed from one to two hours; street car service in all of the cities affected affect-ed has been seriously interferred with; telegraph and telephone companies com-panies are fighting vainly to maintain communication on sleet-coated wires and farmers and producers have been warned that It is too cold to ship perishable products. In Kansas City the'' death list from accidents as a result of the storm remained re-mained at two, while more than a score of persons are in hospitals recovering re-covering from injuries. Eighteen Below at North Platte. North Platte. Neb., reported the lowest temperature in the new storm area eighteen degrees below zero. Omaha experienced eight below while Des Moines reported the mercury at zero. St. Louis, in the center of the low pressure area extending from that city to Memphis, Tenn., on 'the other hand, had a temperature of forty-six degrees above. Rain was falling. fall-ing. Little Rock, Ark., also in this area reported 70 degrees. Blizzard in Kansas. A blizzard prevailed all over Kansas. Kan-sas. A snow measuring from two to four inches fell in the state. Salina reported the mercury at ten degrees below zero. Concordia had a reading of eight below; Wichita five below and Junction City four below. At Oklahoma City the mercury dropped to four degrees above zero while Abilene. Texas reported eighteen above. " Canada, 58 Below. The weather bureau report published publish-ed today shows a range of 18 degrees in the United States this morning. Little Rock had the highest reading 70 above while Prince Albert, Canada, Can-ada, has the lowest 5S below. The map shows the northwest still is firmly held by unprecedented cold wave" that has prevailed In that section sec-tion for a week. Temperatures of 48 degrees below zero In Montana, 40 below In North Dakota and 32 below at Rapid City, S. D.. prevail. Gale 50 Miles An Hour. In Kansas the storm is the most severe since the winter of 1912. A gale from the northwest reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour and carried car-ried blinding snow and sleet with it The Union Pacific ran snow plows ahead of its trains in central Kansas this morning. The Santa Fe also ordered its plows out and all trains will be preceded by track cleaners this afternoon. Mercury Still Sinking. Tho mercury began to sink at Kansas Kan-sas Citv during the morning. At noon it had "descended to two degrees below be-low zero. Additional Kansas temperatures tempera-tures Included seven below zero at Clay Center, five below at Emporia and six below at Pratt. Scores of families that have been depending on natural gas for heating purposes put in hasty orders for other fuel today. It is expected the gas supply, which comes from the Kansas fields", will reach its lowest point of the winter tonight. General Storm in Northwest. Portland. Ore., Jan. 12. Six inches of snow Impeded traffic here today, with no signs of abatement of the storm which was general except in southern Oregon where it rained. Some delay to railroad transportation transporta-tion was reported. Man Freezes to Death. St. Joseph, Mo.. Jan. 12. John Crook, OS years-old, was found in a snow drift hero today, fatally frozen, lie had loft his home last night on an errand and became exhausted. Nine Below In Omaha. Omaha, Nebr., Jan. 12. On the twenty-eighth anniversary of the most terrible blizzard of which there is any record In this section, during which many persons and thousands of head of stock perished from cold, tho mercury mer-cury this morning registered nine degrees de-grees bolow zero In Omaha. This temperature was accompanied by a heavy fall of snow and a strong north wind. Street traffic was almost entirely en-tirely suspended and railroad and street car service badly crippled. All telegraph wires to the cast were down for several hours. Siuox Rills reported tomporaturcs ranging from 15 to 24 degrees below zero with a snow and wind storm raging. rag-ing. Norfolk, Nebr., reported 20 below be-low aud Winner, S. D., forty below zero. JU |