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Show Storm Cripples Press Wire TELEGRAPH WIRES BROKER By FIERCE STORM li 1011 Associated Press Leased Line ! Down Near Rawlins Owing to Blizzard (LITTLE NEWS GETS 1 WEST OF DENVER j . . . ; San Francisco Sends Out Brief Dispatches From Canadian Press Service As a result of heavy wind' and ; 'fcloct. storms in Wyoming and! 'northern Colorado-all press -wires I were clown this morning and pros-, pects were not bright for tele-' graph news. The Associated Press leased 1 wire was down near Rawlins and ; as a conseciuenee The Standard"! I was cut completely off from eom-jinunieation eom-jinunieation with eastern "points. I ThcTSan lnaneisco ort'iee'ofllT Associated 'Press was able, how-( lever, to get a very small amount of news matter from the Canadian , Press service at Seattle, and this 'in turn was relayed to the Stand- i iard from the west, J j The storm which has completely (Severed wire communication with ' eastern points this morning seems '.to be of wide extent and actom-1 Ipaniod by sleet and wind. 1 , This condition usually does great damage . to telephone and1! telegraph lines- the sleet forming l e on the wires and causing them j to break. j As all cable and eastern news comes direct from the Chicago office of-fice of the Associated Press to the Standard the task of filling, the newspaper with telegraph news was especially arduous this morn-moming. |