zero at night
On the morrow , before daybreak , there were three thousand at Durham 's , and the police reserves had to be sent for to quell the riot . Then Durham 's bosses picked out twenty of the biggest ; the `` two hundred '' proved to have been a printer 's error . Four or five miles to the eastward lay the lake , and over this the bitter winds came raging . Sometimes the thermometer would fall to ten or twenty degrees below zero at night , and in the morning the streets would be piled with snowdrifts up to the first-floor windows . The streets through which our friends had to go to their work were all unpaved and full of deep holes and gullies ; in summer , when it rained hard , a man might have to wade to his waist to get to his house ; and now in winter it was no joke getting through these places , before light in the morning and after dark at night . They would wrap up in all they owned , but they could not wrap up against exhaustion ; and many a man gave out in these battles with the snowdrifts , and lay down and fell asleep . And if it was bad for the men , one may imagine how the women and children fared .