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Show '.WEATHER WILL BE - WARMER TODAY KANSAS CITY, Jan. 12. Relief from tho low temperatures which have prevailed over Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, is in sight. The locnl weather obsory-or obsory-or Issued a Btatemont tonight that beginning tomorrow it will bo warmer. warm-er. It Is raining in the northwest and tho storm conter Is turning this wav. I ".7 . All previous Jnnuary records for this vicinity were broken today. In Kansas City the mercury stopped on its downward course at 20 degrees below zero. It had risen by 8 o'clock, however, and the reading at that hour was 7 below be-low zoro. In Kansas train service west of Topeka Is still badly demoralized. Tho Atchison, Topeka nnd Santa Fo Is detourlng Its California trains by way of Wellington and Amerlllo, Texas. Tex-as. Several tralnB still are stalled In tho westorn part of the state. According to railroad reports, tho passengers are well cared for, and it is hoped the trains will bo moved tomorrow. to-morrow. The Rock Island Is dotour-Ing dotour-Ing its California business bv way of Caldwell, Elko and Dalhart, Texas. Several trains on the latter road, wore moved today No trains havo reached Kansas City from the west in tho last 24 hours. For the third time In two weeks, the Union Pacific tracks' are "Impassable. The snow In the cuts is packed so hard that the ordinary enow plow cannot get through and the number of rotnrles In Kansas Is limited Many of the drifts wero several thousand feet long. The Rock Island had several sev-eral 2,000 feet long. One near Meade Is three-quarters of a mile and it took a big rotary plow, pushed by three engines, an hour and forty minutes to get through. Behind the big snow plow trailed a carload of coal for Meado. It reached hero this afternoon Tho Rock Island ran a special train of coal and feed todav from Toxas into tho snow-bound district to relieve re-lieve the situation. nn |