THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1919.
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STATE IN GRIP OF
, RECORD ICY BUST
Cold Wave Sets Many New
Low Temperature Marks.
POWER LINES BADLY HIT
Hall Communications Being He
ctored, but "ot Enough I'uel Can
Be Moved to Meet Demand.
frrmtinne! From First Pap?.)
noon today becauee of inability prop
erly to heat, the grade buildings.
2 3 BELOW, PENDLETON MARK
a
Coldest Night in 2 5 Years Hegls-
tered in Konndup Town.
PEXIibETON', Or, Iec. 12. (Spe
cial.) With the thermometer 23 de
crees below zero last night, Pendleton
experienced the coldest night on rec
ord since weather records have been
kept, covering 25 years. Pioneers,
however, recall the winter of 1883-84.
when the mercury dropped to 40 de
crees below and remained there for
;'.6 hours. By order of Mayor Vauhan,
because of the condition of the pow
er srt-neratinir plant, the business dis
trict is lightless after 4 o'clock in
the afternoon.
Restaurants, hotels, drug stores,
hospitals and) the newspapers are the
only exceptions. Two restaurants
each night will remain open all night.
"Which two these will be is to be de
cided each night by lot. Streets are
practically deserted, as the weather
has been above the zero marlc but a
couple of hours during the day. The
telephone exchange has recorded
15,000 calls during the day. deliveries
from the stores and dairies have been
cut to one a day and in some sec
tions of the city eliminated alto
gether. Taxlcabs have suspended
operations.
ABERDEEN COLD AT 6. ABOVE
low Record Broken on Grays Har
bor Power Service Falling.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) On Grays Harbor, the govern
ment thermometer fell last night to
6 degrees above zero, breaking all low
records.
The Chehalis river is frozen at
Montesano and the Wlshkah river at
Bundy flats, about seven miles north
east. Below zero temperatures are
reported from Elma. McCleary. Stlm
on's camp and Oakville. At Oakville
the thermometers recorded 12 below.
Oil-drilling operations at Moclips well
have been stopped
Montesano Power & Light company
bepran curtailing service today and
may be forced to close down entirely
because of inability to secure wood
fuel, the management announced this
morning.
Upper county raills are closed be
cause of cold.
thermometer registered 26 degrees be
low zero early this morning and at
noon 1 degrees below prevailed. It
is expected to drop to 33 below before
tomorrow morning.
At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon both
city reservoirs, from which The Dalles
receives its supply of drinking water,
were declared to be dry by J. T.
liorick of the water commission.
A snow plow pulled by 10 horses
and manned by five men cleared a 10
foot wide road from Dufor to this
city, breaking the Dufur isolation.
ICE THICK AT VANCOUVER
Snow Cleared From Interstate
Bridge; Ten Beltw Reported.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 12.
(Special.) The Columbia river at this
point is packed with ice that has been
carried down the river. Although the
jam extends across the river, the ice
at a late hour tonight was not eolid.
The. lowest temperature in several
years was recorded here at 3 A. M.
today, when the thermometer dropped
to 10 degrees below zero. After fluc
tuating during the day. the mercury
rose to zero by 8 o'clock tonight.
Snow has been cleared from the In
terstate bridge and the Portland
Vancouver road is open to traffic
again. The public schools are con
tinuing to maintain classes.
GRANTS PASS IS ABOVE ZERO
City Still iu Darkness Hotel
Patrons Get Candles.
GRANTS PASS, Or., Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) Grants Pass is still in dark
ness, although there is faint prospect
that power and light will be available
by tomorrow night. The power lines
ivent down late Wednesday night and
there arc breaks from falling poles
and trees at many places.
All lines of business requiring elec
tric power have been t a standstill
tflnce Thursday morning, but gasoline
engines are In temporary use in many
places. At the hotels a tallow candle
is given patrons with their room key.
There is no wire communication with
the south, but the Western Union
wires are open northward.
The minimum temperature for the
pnst 24 hours was 13 above. There is
freezing again tonight. The total
snowfall was five and one-half inches.
PLANTS AT SALEM ARE CLOSED
Temperatures Ranging From 5. to
15 Below Reported.
SALEM. Or.. Dec. 12. (Special.)
All available records for low temper
atures in Marion conuty were shat
tered early today when thermometers
stationed in different parts of Salem
registered all the way from 5 to 16
degrees below zero. The sudden turn
In the weather, following a dav of
moderating temperature, found many
persons unprepared and not a few
water pipes burst as a result of the
intense cold. Several industries have
been forced to suspend, while the
operations of other enterprises have
been badly hampered.:
ASTORIA REPORTS 9 ABOVE
Increased Ice In Colombia Prevents
Navigation.
ASTORIA. Or. Dec. 12. cardial
Nine degrees above zero was the low
point recorded by the local govern
ment thermometer at an earlv hour
this morning, showing last night to be
not oniy me coldest for many years,
but within 2 degrees of the minimum
of which there is any record.
At ia o clock last night the mer
cury stood at 13 degrees above and
Derore morning it dropped 4 degrees.
Increased amounts of ice are float
ing in the river and no boats are -un-ning
between Astoria and Cathlamet
or other points along the Columbia.
HOOD FRUIT MEN ALARMED
Mercury Drops to 2 4 Below Ze
ro; Fuel Census Taken.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) While unofficial instruments
registered as high as 30 degrees in
valley points last night, Leroy Childs.
co-operative weather observer, re
ported a minimum of 24 degrees be
low zero. The maximum today was
1 degrees above zero. It was colder
by 10 degrees at nightfall than last
night.
City officials took a fuel census to
day, preparatory to apportioning coal
and wood among the unsupplied from
bins and cellars of residents well
stocked.
CENTRALIA 16.5 BELOW ZERO
Rivers Frozen People Stay la
doors; 2 Kitchen Ranges Explode.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) Centrallans. in spite of intense
cold trere loath to believe it when I.
S. Turner, local weather observer, an
nounced that the thermometer reg
istered 16'4 degrees below zero at 8
o'clock this morning, 63 degrees
colder than at the some hour yester
day.
Schools remained closed today and
citizens generally remained indoors,
Chehalis and Skookumcuuck rivers
today were frozen over.
called out where the country roads
were not broken yet, engaged one of
the small caterpillar type tractors
from a dealer and bad it propel his
car and break the trail. Tractors
have been used In cleaning the accu
mulated snow from the streets.
ST. HELENS REPORTS ZERO
Fall of 18 Inches of Snow Closes
Logging Camps and Mills.
ST. HELENS, Or.. Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) Twenty-five hundred employes
of logging, camps in this county are
out of work, business Is at a stand
still, a fall of 18 inches of snow has
been registered, the Columbia river
at this point is expected to be frozen
over by morning, and sawmills are
closed as a result of the spell of
winter that has prevailed during most
of the week. The mercury reached
the zero mark tonight, with indica
tions for a yet lower level.
floating ice has interfered with
river traffic all day and but one
steamer made the passage, that being
routed via Columbia slough.'
2 0 BELOW AT COIDEXDALE
Some Points in Klickitat Valley Re
port 3 3 Below.
GOLDEXD4LE, Wash., Dec. 12.
(Special.) The government thermom
eter at Goldendale registered 29 be
low zero Thursday night, the coldest
weather experienced In the Klickitat
valley since 1883. Other parts of the
Klickitat valley report as low tem
perature as 35. The intense cold came
after a severe storm of two days in
which two feet of snow fell, tying up
train service and putting the water
power plant out of commission.
Farmers and stockmen Jn the Klick
itat valley, however, are well prepared
for extreme winter weather.
WALLA WALLA TRAFFIC HALTS
Official Temperature of Four Be
low Zero Is Recorded.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec 12.
(Special.) Not since December. 1884,
has Walla Walla had as cold a De
cember day as this morning, when
the official temperature was 4
degrees below zero. The record for
December is 17 below in 1884. At
Dayton last night. 18 below was re
corded. With this cold weather Day
ton had a $30,000 fire early this morn
ing. ROSEBURG HAS 11 ABOVE
Coldest December Day Since 187 9
Is Registered.
. ROSEBURG, Or, Dec 12. (Special.)
With the mercury at 11 degrees
above zero. Roseburg today expe
rienced its coldest December day since
1879. A heavy snowfall on Tuesday
night was followed by a cold day and
on Wednesday night the mercury be
gan falling rapidly. According to
records, December 21, 1879, was colder
by 4 degrees, when 7 above waa registered.
in all parts of the city are frozen and
plumbers have been kept busy all
day. Added to the cold weather the
deep snow, which makes delivery by
the local stores impossible, is add
ing to the discomforts of citizens.
The snow, which was the deepest ever
experienced here, measured 26 inches.
The roof on the pavilion at the Polk
County Fair grounds partly collapsed
and the stock shed was laid flat by
the weight of the snow.
CANYON CITY 3IAKES RECORD
Minimum Temperature of 2 6 Be
low Zero Registered.
CANTON CITY. Or., Dec 12. (Spe
cial.) The minimum temperature was
26 below zero at 7 A M. today. Old
inhabitants say the temperature is the
lowest within memory, and the cold
weather to have begun earlier than
ever before.
Deep snow and) extreme cold de
layed train service of the Sumpter
Valley Railroad. Mail is 24 hours late.
Bear Valley reports- 40 below and
snow in the mountains six feet deep.
The temperature fell six degrees be
tween 4 and 5 this afternoon. Stock
Is suffering and hay and -wood rising
In price.
Kelso Coldest for Thirty Years.
KELSO, Wash., Dec 1L Kelso peo
ple were shivering today in the face
of the coldest weather in 30 years.
The temperature was Just 4 degrees
above zer6 this morning and ice is
forming in the Cowlitz river. It was
in January, 1888, that the Cowlitz
river froze over so that it could be
crossed on the ice and a few years
earlier the Columbia river was frozen
so hard that a team crossed from
Kelso to Rainier. This city is with
out light and water. All mills and.
logging operations are shut down
and camps will probably not re
sume until spring. The schools were
also closed yesterday until Monday
morning.
1 1 Below Touched at Lewiston .
LEWISTON. Idaho, Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) Snow has been falling steadily
and continuously for more than 24
hours. Automobiles are continuing to
keep the roads broken within the city
but outside travel is practically lim
ited to the reduced train service to
Spokane and Portland. There is 20
inches of snow on the ground. Never
In the history of Lewiston has there
been as much snow as this and only
on one occasion before, has the
weather bureau recorded as low a
temperature as the 11 degrees below
zero of Tuesday.
Ashland Mercury Drops.
ASHLAND, Or.. Dec. 12. (Special.)
The mercury dropped from 34 to 15
above between 4 and 6:30 P. M. All
indications point toward a record
breaking low temperature tonight.
Power lines to the municipal plant are
repaired and the power came on this
afternoon after 40 hours without
lights. Fifteen Inches of snow fell.
It Is feared that orchard ists will suf
fer heavy . loss, as the damp, heavy
snow broke down hundreds of fruit
trees.
EUGENE OFFICIALLY 4 ABOVE
Private Thermometers Show Zero
In City 8 Below Outside.
EUGENE, Or., Dec. 12. (Special.)
Today was the coldest day in Eugene
Kince the winter of 1S98-99. The mini
mum temperature this morning was
4 degrees above zero, according to the
government thermometer, but private
thermometers in the city registered
as low as zero and some in the rural
districts went as low as 8 below.
NEWPORT TRAINS RESUME
Mcrcnry 15 Above Zero; "Little
Snow Is on Ground.
NEWPORT, Or., Dec 12. (Special.)
Rail communication between New
port and the outside world was re
numeri today. Heavy snow on the
summit of the Coast mountains pre
vented tho arrival of trains until last
night at midnight one reached Taquina
t'lty eicrht hours late, the first one
nince Tuesday evening. There is very
litfle fiiow at Newport, but the mer
cury dropped to 15 degrees above zero
last nisrht.
The coldest wave struck here at 10
o'clock Tuesday night and a mixture
NVf snow, rain and sleet fell all night.
"Water pipes and house plants have
suffered severely.
13.5 BELOW AT CORVALLIS
Mncli Damage Caused by Roof
Cave-Ins and Pipes Bursting.
CORVALLIS. Or., Dee. 12. (Spe
clnl. ) The coldest weather since
1S?9 was registered in Corvallis this
morning when the thermometer went
to 13.5 below zero. A dense fog per
vades the city this morning making
it impossible to see more than half a
block.
Several thousand of dollars' worth
of damage has been done by the
caving iu of roofs caused by 23 inches
of snow. Mar.y pipes froze.
College boys and day laborers have
been taking advantage of the situa
tion, in many instances fixing price
of a dollar an hour for shoveling
snow.
STORM ISOLATES JACKSON
Med ford 9.5 Above Snow Puts
Out Power and Phone Lines.
MF.DFORD, Or.. Dec. 12. For S6
hours Medford and Jackson county
have been 'cut off from the rest of the
world by thi most severe snow storm
and cold weather in its history. A
minimum of 9 degrees above zero
this morning broke all records at the
local weather bureau, while the foot
of snow which fell Wednesday night
put all telegraph and electric power
lines out of business within a radius
of BO miles.
16 BELOW AT McMIXXVILLE
Physician Uses Tractor to Break
Trail on Country Call.
McMINNVILLE. Or.. Dec 12. (Spe
cial.) Winter has gripped Yamhill
county with a severity that breaks
all previous records for this section.
The temperature at 6 o'clock this
morning was 16 below, and at noon it
had varied only slightly. Nineteen
inches of badly drifted snow makes
travel throughout the country dis
tricts very difficult.
One of the local physicians, when
BOISE RECORDS ZERO MARK
All of Southern Idaho Suffers
From Cold Wave.
BOTSE. Idaho, Dec. 12. The official
weather report for Boise at 9 o'clock
tonight was zero, and the prophecy is
that the mercury will fall to & below,
and probably lower before morning.
All of southern Idaho is suffering
from a cold wave with clear skies
and no wind.
Some mountain districts report tem
peratures of 20 below.
COOS MERCURY IS FALLING
18 Degrees Above Zero Registered
at Marshficld.
MARPTIFIELD, Or., Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) The thermometer registered
18 above zero- last night, the lowest
temperature in a number of years.
There was a big demand today for
plumbers for 'repairing burst pipes
and fixing residence water systems.
Indications tonight were that the
weather will be colder than last
night.
31 Below at Frlnevllle.
PRINEVILLE, Or., Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) With two feet of snow on the
ground, temperature here this morn
ing was 31 degrees below zero, the
lowest temperature recorded for
many years. Traffic was demoralized.
Stockmen were caught -unprepared,
although hay is plentiful. Construc
tion work on the highway Is delayed.
This evening at 5 o'clock the ther
mometer registered 20 degrees below.
13 Below at Dallas.
DALLAS, Or, Dec 12. (Special.)
Dallas awoke this morning to the
coldest weather experienced In this
city for more than a quarter of a cen
tury, the thermometer registering 13
below zero- at 7 o'clock. Water pipes
Baker Reports 1 7 Below.
BAKER. Or., Dec. 12. (Special.)
The coldest December weather ever
experienced in this city was registered
at 7 o clock this morning, when the
local weather observer's station regis
tered 17 degrees below zero. The
absolute minimum record for this city
is 20 degrees below, registered Feb
ruary 4, 1899. On February 1. 1393. to
day's rcord was equaled. North Pow
der and Haines report 22 and 13 de
grees below, respectively.
Spokane 15 Below.
SPOKANE, Dec 12. Sharp drops
m temperature were reported from
eastern Washington and northern
Idaho towns, ranging from 15 below
at Spokane to 32 below, reported un
officially from Lind, Wash. Reardan
reported 20; Colfax, 22; Rosalia, 24
and Newport Zs below. St. Maries,
Idaho, reported 24 and Clarkia, Idaho,
27 below.
above zero, a fair of 6 degrees from
the temperature of the same hour '
Thursday. At noon Friday the tern-
perature was 21.- With no relief from
the cold snap in sight Seattle has
turned its attention to blanketing its
water pipes and conservation of its
fuel and gas supply.
Bend Mercury 25 Below.
BEND. Or.. Dec 12. (Special.)
Although an official minimum of 25
degrees below zero was reached here
early this morning, an even greater
degree of cold for tonight was Indi
cated. At 5:30 o'clock this aftrnoon
the mercury went to 16 degrees be
low, while at the same time yesterday
the government thermometer showed
only 10 degrees below. The 25 below
minimum eclipses all official records
for winter cold. A fuel shortage is
menacing Bend.
, Molalla Reports 22 Below.
MOLALLA, Or.. Dec 12. (Special.)
At 5 P. M. today the mercury fell
to 22 degrees below zero, the coldest
temperature ever recorded here. The
city, unprotected from the east, was
swept by Icy winds. The hourly tem
peratures follow: Midnight, 12 be
low; 1 A. M, 15 below; 2 A M-. 14
below; 8 A. M, 15 below. 4 A. M ,
17 below: 6 A. M., 22 below, and. 6
A. M, 18 below.
Iloqiiiam Registers 6 Above.
HOQUIAM, Wash, Dec 12. (Spe
cial.) With the government ther
mometer registering 6 degrees above
zero early this morning the lowest
temperature for the Grays Harbor
district since 1889 was recorded. The
weather has been clear with no more
snow, but so far there is no indica
tion of a break In the cold snap.
Damage has been confined to frozen
water pipes.
Ten Below Reached at Chehalis.
CHEHALIS. Wash, Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) Ten degrees below zero this
morning, the coldest ever known lo
cally, was reported in numerous parts
of the city. fc.arly today from every
part of Chehalis came rush orders to
plumbers for hurry-up repairs, tew
homes have escaped damage. Several
cases of hot water coils bursting
were reported but so far as known
no serious damage was done.
Three Feet at White Salmon.
WHITE SALMON, Wash, Dec. 11.
(Special.) The heavy snowfall,
amounting to three feet in 24 hours in
White Salmon. Is almost unprece
dented for this early in the winter.
The Wyers line of stages for Trout
Lake, 25 miles north, and Glenwood.
36 miles, left Wednesday morning,
expecting to force their way through.
Hillsboro 4 Below Zero.
HILLSBORO. Or.. Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) With no official record, re
ports of temperature during the past
48 hours vary. The mercury stood at
4 below in front of a Main-street drug
store at 9 A. H. today, and the watch
man at the Bergen greenhouse at 3
A. M. says that 14 below was touched
during the Evight.
Carlton Temperature 11 Below.
CARLTON. Or, Dec. 12. (Special.)
Temperature this morning was H
below, although the weather moder
ated slightly later in the day. Carlton
has 22 inches of snow and all mail
service has been suspended.
Tacoma Shivers at 6.9 Above.
TACOMA. Wash, Dec. 12. (Spe
cial.) Tacoma shivered today in the
most bitter cold of Its history. The
government thermometer registered
6.9 degrees above zero at 7:30 o'clock
this morning.
2 4 Below at Wasco.
WASCO. Or, Dec. 12. (Special.)
Continued cold prevails. The tem
perature was 24 below zero last night.
Tonight promises to be even colder.
This is the coldest weather on record
here.
Stevenson Coldest In Years.
STEVENSON, Wash, Doc. 12.
(Special.) The weather here is the
coldest known in years, the ther
mometer having reached two degrees
below zero at 7 A. M. today. The Co
lumbia river has been ice-blocked
for three days from shore to shore.
Schools have been dismissed until
weather changes.
Seattle Cold at 12.2 Above.
SEATTLE, Wash, Dec 12. (Spe
cial.) The coldest December weather
ever recorded in Seattle in 35 years
came this morning at 8 o'clock when
the mercury dropped to 12.2 degrees
Yakima 2 2 Below Zero.
YAKIMA, Wash, Dec 12. The tem
perature here early this morning
dropped to 22 degrees below zero, the
coldest December weather of which
there is any record.
31 Below at Ellensburg.
ELLENSBURG. Wash, Dec. 12.
Government thermometers here early
today registered 31 degrees below
zero, the lowest on record.
Treasurer's Mother 111.
SALEM, Or, Dec 12. (Special.)
Joseph Richardson, deputy state treas
urer, left here Monday for California,
where his mother is said to be quite
111. She only recently underwent a
serious operation. -
RECORD SET IN CLACKAMAS
6form Reported to Be Worst in
More Than 4 0 Years.
OREGON CITY. Dec. 12. (Special.)
According to the oldest settlers of
Clackamas county the present snow
storm is the heaviest in many years.
Mrs. Max Ttamsby, residing in the
Dickey Prairie, for more than 40
years, dcrl.irerl the storm to be the
worst storm she has ever seen. Dickey
Prairio is a few miles beyond Molalla
and is somewhat protected from the
cale. The snow fall measured about
5 inches.
In Molalla business is practically
l a t.audf till.
SO BELOW AT THE DALLES
City Reservoirs Go Dry In Coldest
Spell on Record.
THE DALLES, Or, Dec II. (Spe
cial.) The Dalles today is suffering
the coldest temperatures ever record
ad officially or ever remembered b,y
tlie oldest residents. The government
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