Show BY FILLING S STORM DRIVES MERCURY DOWNWARD WHERE MILD temperature EXISTED trains are delayed and communication destroyed by worst blizzard of winter drifts hold up traffic chicago A cold wave vave that assum ed blizzard proportions in th the e rocky mountain area swept avei over the middle fth tho pro prospect peet ot of a decided deoto and wow was falling failing throughout most of the region while hilt in the rock jo atho the snow was wag a toot foot debo de epand and drifts wera demoralizing tra giop bojt A minimum of 22 above zero was forecast the storm was venting its greatest fury ury on the air mall mail service the flying hying schedule between sait bait lake city and chicago was waa almost demoralized the plane due to start thursday stayed in its hangar antl and it was announced that none would start west until the plane from omaha had bad arrived kaukas kandab city A snowstorm that rea readied clied blizzard pro proportions ort lons in the teeth of a high north wind swept over the southwest routing afie the mild temperatures pera tures that have prevailed sharp arora in temperature wore were recorded T th a further sliding gilding of the mercury pi to fo north northwest missouri and many P parts arts of kansas tha th storm promised to bring the heaviest snowfall of the winter the snowfall reached blown ahto northern Okla oklahoma boma and the texas panhandle all of kansas was wag snow swept and deep drifts in railroad cuts on branch lines had delayed trains out on the rolling kansas pr where the wind 9 got ot in its full fill force tile tho snow had drifted badly and highways wore were reported impassable in some sections drifts dratt elgot feet deep were reported by the santa re fe railroad on its mar ton lon mcpherson and strong city branch lines it was an aerial frolic that the southwest witnessed turning first in ito to sleet and then into snow at kansas kangas city lawrence and other places hashes of lightning glittered through the falling snow and tho the muffled peals of thunder were heard A four inch blanket of the snowy product was ex in this vicinity wire communication muni cation was being paralyzed in some sections by the storm the sarita santa fe reported its wires down west of newton kansas |