Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1918 — NO LET-UP TO ZERO WEATHER [ARTICLE]

NO LET-UP TO ZERO WEATHER

More Snow and Wind Saturday and Sunday Causes Inconvenience. There is practically no let-up to the zero weather we have been experiencing for the past six weeks, and Saturday afternoon and night and Sunday night was quite blizzardy again. Trains became stalled on the Monon and Gifford roads Saturday and the country roads again drifted quite badly. The train north on the Gifford road got stuck Saturday noon one-fourth mile north of Moody. The work crew was on the train and shoveled 1 the train out, the task being accomplished about 7 o’clock in the evening. There weje. several passengers who remained on the train. The same place became drifted full of snow again after the train had passed and the work crew returned there Monday and worked all day and most of yesterday in clearing the track. No trains have passed over the road since Saturday. Afternoon and evening trains on the Monon Saturday got stalled in drifts north of town, but finally succeeded in breaking a way througn after several hours’ delay. Sunday Evening a (freight train became stalled at Pleasant Ridge and held the milk train, the 7:30 and the night trains at Rensselaer until Monday morning. While the mercury only got to within 9 degrees of zero Sunday night, a cold, raw wind with flurries of snow made it one of the worst nights we have had this winter and the cold wind penetrated every crack and crevice e and chilled one to the marrow. The government thermometer out at St. Joseph’s college registered 9 degrees below zero again yesterday morning. Predictions for today are “fair and slightly warmer.’’