Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — HYPERBOREAN COLD! [ARTICLE]

HYPERBOREAN COLD!

A .Spell of* Wealifer that Again Beats the Oldest Inhabitant. -- ■" A '' ' The four days, ending last Monday morning, were the coldest four consecutive (lays within the memory of the oldest citizens... Two days of heavy snowfall were succeeded, on Thursday, by clear weather aud a rapidly falling thermometer. The cold wave extended over an immense scope of country. From the western boundary of Nebraska, to the eastern boundary of Ohio, and from Manitoba to Tennessee. The thermometer, in some cases, registering as low as forty-five degrees below zero. At Rensselaer, the two days heavy snow fall, was succeeded, on Thursday, by clear weather, a bitter wind and rapidly falling temperature. By night-fall it had fallen to 16 degrees below, and at daylight, the hext morning' thermometers, in various parts of the town, indicated from 26 to 32 degrees below, depending something on the more or less exposed position of the instruments. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, were intensely cold, the thermoipeter registering from 25

to 30 degrees below, every night. The running of trains was more or less interrupted on all railroads within the scope of the storm, but no road suffered greater interruption than the L., N. A. & C. The south-bounld train of Wednesday morning, was the last to pass over the-road until Sunday night. The uorth-bound train which should have passed this place, at 5:28, Wednesday evening, stuck in the snow between Reynolds and Chalmers. After some 14 hours in the drifts, it was finally got to Monon. The south bound train, due here at 10:36 p. m., was snowed in near St. John’s, a station between Lowell and Dyer. A freight train with several cars off the track, in the same neighborhood, made the blockade much more serious. The passengers remained in the cars until morning, and - then took refuge in neighboring farm houses, and in St. John’s, and Dyer, and were taken back to Chicago Saturday. On Sunday evening the trains again began to run regularly.