| Show n PACIFIC CHICAGO COAST WIRES IN CRIPPLED RIPPLED'S STATE ATEI I I I II I Heavy Snowstorm Sweeps Nebraska i and Kansas I Halting Hailing Traffic 1 Kansas City Mo Feb The 13 The lowest barometric pressure the southwest southwest southwest south south- west has experienced in thirty one years prevails tonight accompanied by a mile fifty-mile gale throughout t Kano an ansas sas Oklahoma Nebraska and parts of Missouri it was stated at the Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City office of the United S States tes' tes I weather bureau This condition is ac accompanied accompanied ac- ac I ac-I companied by rain snow amI and sl sleet et i throughout those states with the temperature gradually dropping Chicago Feb reb 13 heavy 13 Heavy snow accompanIed ac- ac y ac-y companIed U by liy extremely high winds today demoralized telegraph and telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone communication from Crom Chicago to the Pacific coast Railway ny traffic also suffered much dela delay from points west westor of or Omaha and Kansas City The Tha heaviest lest snow snowstorm torm reported from waB-from on N re in some gome to towns vas waa at a a. complete completo still and railroad traffic traCie had been temporarily abandoned So far Car a as reported the temperatures ha have e not fallen much below the tho freezIng freezing freez freez- In ing point and live lic stock has not suffered suffered suf BUr to any great extent r Worst Blizzard of Winter Is Raging Denver Colo Cob Feb 13 With With two Union Pacific trains snowbound near Salina Kan and Rock flock Island Burlington Burlington Bur Bur- ton ling and Fanta Santa Ko lie trains reported reporter at least twelve hours houis late the central west today and toni tonight ht experienced the tho worst blizzard of or tho winter Telephone Tele Tole- phone and anil telegraph wires are down everywhere o cast east of at I ns I. Neb and ami latest reports ts from tho the storm area said Raid a terrific gale was driving tho the to such stich extent that heavy ha snow An nn was wag no prospect of or Improvement ement r- r f d' situation until the storm moderates moderates mod mod- crates i oi b by relaying ln messages through h Canada to the Pacific ct coast ast thence to te San Francisco an and then thon to Denver Den were the Hoel Rocky mountain states able to l keep ec p in touch with the eastern halt half haltof of or the tho United States Stales and tho outside iv world 0 rId The Tha storm broke broko broko- broko last ast night and It was not until the middle of or the forenoon forenoon fore toro noon today that thal communication was lh d by bv way isny of or San Francisco and Canada Conditions grew rew wor worse 6 during the afternoon and Lexington Net Nell became the eastern terminus for tor direct communication tho the Lexington Lexington- Columbus wires breaking about 3 o'clock this afternoon Brokerage offices l were seriously serious handicapped private messages eS wore were Impossible and the tho Associated Press and other news newl t services Cervices were compelled to lo rely on intermittent communication communication tion for or vital dispatches from the peace conference and the cast AVInd Ind Velocity of or 40 Through h Kansas and Nebraska blizzard buiz- buiz ard zard conditions were reported with a wind sometimes reaching a velocity of oC 40 mites an hour producing conditions which prevented linemen from repairIng repairIng repairing repair repair- ing the tho service ser Farther cast east the snow turned to sleet and rain and wires were reported report ell down In all aU direct t I 0 fl S. S Conditions are worse tonight ht than they were this morning Charles M 1 Jett traffic chief chic of ot the tho Postal Telegraph Tele Telo- Tele-I Tele graph company compau said Halll We connections as an far east cast 0 had as Columbus Neb eb up to 3 p p. p m m. but bUl nt at that time twel everything went down at al Lexington iZ 13 miles west of ot Colum Colum- bus bUB Late reports from torn Cozad Neb said that thal a h heavy wet snow was fn falling falling fall fall- 11 III ing and It was Impossible to get got linemen linemen linemen line line- men out to repair the tho lines line Wire Ire conditions are so BO poor through h the storm country countr that tho the Postal hay has been compelled to send tend messages for de delivery delivery de- de livery cast east b by mall mail to Kansas Kanas City over the tho Union Pacific whose whoso lines are still open Line Repair Held eld Up tip Wire Chief 1 of or the tho Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph raph company coin coin- corn com pany pan said Conditions are unchanged from this morn morning Ins Ins- The la Is so ba bad we arc iro unable to get gel out to repair theline the tho lines line according to roundabout reports from Crom the storm J. J JL jr Colb Colby division traffic supervisor supervisor super super- visor for tho Western Union Telegraph com company pan said Bait Conditions ar are worse than W we at first thought No wire service Is available direct to the storm center We 0 have hare a wire to Kansas Kansan City b by byWay byway Wl way of ot Dallas and one to Chicago b by byway byway way of or North and South Dakota and up to St. St Paul but It is working badly Lato Late reports from the storm center centor Continued on Page Pago 2 I PACIFIC CHICAGO n WIRE SERVICE IS CRIPPlED Continued from Pago Iago 1 l. show that tho the storm i is hi growing worse It seems to bo confined l to a strip fifty miles wi wide wido do from Oklahoma to tho the Canadian line All details from the stricken section are lacking because tl there ere Is no direct comm communication I Colo Feb 13 Trains grains on all railroads entering Pueblo t from om the astare east ast are arc completely tied fled up accordion according N to reports from tho the railroad offices to tonight to- to night and nothing definite can be announced an an- In- In as to te how soon the blockade will bo be lifted Atchison Topeka Santa Fo Fe trains are stalled h by drifts cast east of Dodge City while tho the Missouri Pacific railroad jg Is s blocked by snow sno neat near Horace I ICan Ilan an |
