Show E 3 ASTERN STORM RUINS RUINS' CRO CROPS S j EASiE A r IN MIDDlE W I A I I denizens Dzen of Mi Mississippi Y Valley ll y Shiy Shivering g in W Wake ke of Snowstorm Thit y asS c I Telegraphic ph reports c-reports from points in the South pa particularly from I Missouri and anti Kansa ld Kansa localities Kansas i ind indicate cate that hat the fruit r it crops in n i that portion of t the e country have I been severely damaged where they ha have ve n no t been killed by the I freezing weather Veather of the last last- forty eight hours The loss it is said run into millions I Th he e damage done to plums cherries and t d early field and garden fruits in Miss Missouri uri alone is estimated at it t If the entire apple crop is destroyed as reports stated the damage will approximate The temp temperature ra ure at the fruit experiment experiment I ment station at Columbia Mo fell to 14 degrees es last night and at Le Lebanon Leba anon a non to 9 degrees WASHINGTON April 5 5 5 W vy TI The e Easter storm which buried the tile Southwest and Middle M West Vest under a snow blanket was f spreading to today in four dir directions dirc- dirc c- c j with a cold wave enveloping all territory between the Appalachians and tre Ro Rocky l y mountains I Rain or s 's snow ow late t today day and freezing freez freez- big ing temp temperatures temperatures' s' s t tonight were vee forecast for the territory east of the Ap Ap- ns Frost and freezing temperatures tem tom peat res the bureau said are probable probable probable able tonight in the East Gulf states north and west est of Georgia extreme north Florida Tennessee and the Ohio valley Freezing temperatures p prevailed today today to to- to day as fare far sou south h as the interior inferior of ot Texas and thea portions of Louisiana and Alabama I I according t The Ohio i to v vt valley the ll lr y weather storm ili of bureau i yesterday had I divided divided today and f formed two centers I I of ot disturbances one to the northward of D Lake lie Ontario and arid the other ther over Virginia Virglnia Excepting the Atlantic and nd New I England states g generally f fair ir weather tonight and ana Tue Tuesday day w was s predicted by bythe bythe the w weather ather bur bureau burau au CHICAGO STILL STILt SHIVERING CHICAGO HI JAG Ap April AprI i 5 The The entire Middle Middie Mid Mid- dIe dle W West st to today lay Is shivering in the wal wake waite e of ofa a white Easter r blizzard that proved to be on one of of th the worst storms of th the Coming unexpectedly from tile the Texas panhandle and driven by a mile fifty gale the storm piled plIed this section of the country high with snowdrifts crippled railroad service greatly In interfered telephone and telegraph communication and caused great suffering among among hundreds of families caught with their winters winter's s supply of ot coal exhausted In several places the force of gale wa was such that tha t windows were blown in n billboards and outbuildings blown over and branches of ot trees ripped off In Chicago all all' transportation and communication s service was seriously se crippled j I There Ther wa Ws W's n h no Easter day fashiOn parade yesterday fashionable residents of ot the city attending churches In Christmas garb I In the open country of the Southwest Southwest Southwest South South- west cattle were reported to have ha suffered suf suf- There were few Cew official reports of ot crop damage howe er Sunshine and a temperature of ot not Continued on page 2 COLD EASTER Continued fr from m page 1 less than 60 SO degrees degree were wee forecast for or Chicago today SOUTHWEST SOUTHWESTERN RN CONDITIONS KANSAS CITY April 5 Railroads and highways were were blocked by de deep p snow drifts rural telephone service is demoralized and livestock is suffering t from o a blizzard which swept Kansas Kapsas Nebraska the Texas panhandle northern northern north north- em ern Oklahoma and Missouri y yester- yester day d y All AU trains able to to move are running hours hours' late and nd from several places trains are reported in fy py y heavy drifts The he temperature brought broucht by th tha gale ranged several d degrees grees below freezing ST. ST LOUIS SUFFERS ST ST. LOUIS Ap l April 5 Intermittent rain and snow mlle mile wind and freezing temperatures combined to tomake tomake make malte Easter the worst th that t St. St Louis has ever experienced FRUIT J KILLED IN MISSOURI JEFFERSON CITY Mo April 5 The Tho blizzard d which swept Missouri yesterday destroyed the entire peach apple cherry and plum crops caUIn caU- caU caus- caus trig Ing losses of millions of ot dollars ac according according according ac- ac cording to Information received by the state board of agriculture toda today KANSAS WHEAT SAVED I SALINA Kan April 5 All All April low temperature records In the Kansas Ian Han sas wheat belt were smashed today when 6 above zero was registered All fruit Is killed but wheat and al alfalfa alfalfa al- al alfalfa falfa protected by eighteen eig inches of snow is Is' Is believed to have escaped in in- in jury LOUISIANA THREATENED 0 I NEW ORLEANS April 5 The Tho The Louisiana strawberry crop Is seriously threatened by the predicted frost to tonight tonight tonight to- to night according to the local weather forecaster I |