Show THE REMARKABLE STORM A storm prevailed over this section tho latter part vof May for about ten days up to tho laat four day of tho month This storm came from tho southwest and passed oft to tho north cost A few days after It left here It W < IH heard of on the other side of the mountains and It appears then to have bent somewhat to tho southeast Increasing In-creasing in force and duration all the way In northern Utah It brought low temperature In Montana It brought snow depositing ten feet of It In one place Sweeping down the Missouri It made high water and devastation as far as Kansas City with a spread that Included In-cluded Central Iowa In Its rainfall There it seems to have dispersed as we do not hear of its prevalence eastward from those points to any marked ex tent the country Is too wide to concen truth It so it spread and became too mild for special note But It was a terror of a storm It brought weather here such as is seldom I known It deluged thu arid region for llvo hundred miles In width and con ferred welcome blessings that enormously I enor-mously outweigh the damages inflicted It was different however as the storm worked down tho Missouri the IOSECJJ there have np compensating benefits What an atmospheric convulsion though It must have been that would start such a storm wave as that In the great ocean Sweeping up the open country drenching Utah and Nevada depositing snow by the thousand tons In Montana and water by the millions of cubic feet In the States below adjoining I the Missouri river it wan Indeed a terrific terri-fic and majestic evidence of the supreme power of natures forces It showed in a phenomenal object lesson the almost Infinite capacity of the upper air to receive re-ceive and carry tremendous masses of water for Immense distances tho deposits de-posits being regulated by the higher currents and the meeting of clouds of varying temperature What if an eye could see all the mighty panorama unfold un-fold Itself But none save the eye of Omnipotence alone could altogether take In the mighty spectacle The storm Is gone now after doing its work the skies are clear and the people are emerging from their ruined homes Tho general loss hns been Immense but such are the recuperative powers of this mighty country and the prosperity and resources of her people that six months from now will see the losses all repaired and the localities now in depression as saucy and contented as ever the present gloom will all be a thing of the past |