Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-01-06 | Page 1 | First Blizzard of Year in Chicago

FIRST BLIZZARD Of VEAR IN CHICAGO MERCURY DROPS FROM 44 ABOVE TO 9 BELOW. Telegraph Wires Crippled, and 25 Guests Suffer In Cold When Driven Out of Hotel. Chicago, Jan.' 6. True to the weather weath-er bureau's schedule, the first blizzard l of the winter swept down, on Chicago 1 today from, the north. From 44 de-' de-' grees above aero yesterday, the mer-cury mer-cury dropped, to 9. below today. Telegraph . wirea wero crippled In every direction -,A number of accidents, acci-dents, due to the cold, were recorded. A South Chicago Electric car crashed into an Illinois Central. train, injuring a number of street car passengers. : two seriously. Twenty-five guests of ' the Humboldt Park hotel suffered se-I se-I verely when they wore driven half-clad half-clad Into the street by a fire., Today was the coldest In three years.