Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — Cold Wave Fatal to Many. [ARTICLE]

Cold Wave Fatal to Many.

The severe cold of Sunday was fatal to many persons. At Cincinnati, 0., “Doc” Orr fell Into a mud hole and frote to death. John McQuaid, a Santon (Wis.) farmer, died at Stillwater, Minn., after being found In the snow by a roadside. Three ranchers are reported frozen to death in Minnesota, and four cases of negroes dying from expcuure are reported from Tennessee. The body of John Leffert was found frozen in tne ice on the Wabash river at Logansport, Ind. Clerk Ameberg of the steamer Spread Eagle, whose home was at Hatton, 111., was drowned at Paducah, ivy. At Brazil, Ind., Miss Netta Withers was fatally injured. The pipes attached to the stove froze and when she lighted the stove an explosion fallowed.