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Show FEARFUL COLD EASTOFJANGE Frost King Has Grip on Colorado. 1 Wyoming and New Mexico. 11 Are-Also Within His Grasp. ' ' II In Denver 27 Below. Zoro-Was-tha 1 Record, 33 Below, at Twin. 1 Lakes, , 1 DENVER, Colo., Feb. 12. Reports of M Intenso cold, accompanied ln sections ! by snowfall, were received at the office I D of the local weather bureau tonight 19 from Colorado, Wyoming and New II 'Mexico. In southern Colorado and BJ northern New Mexico the worst storm Jjfl alnce 1SS6 is raging, 'according to (lis- 111 patches from Trinidad. M In New Mexico the storm reached the jl proportions of a blizzard and great I damage to stock Is reported. Railroad fl men report the tracks alons the South- j ern & Colorado strewn with the car- H casscs of dead sheep and cattle. Denver Is Freezing. n In thc southern part of New Mexico. 1 where cold weather is a rarity, the zero 1 mark wus reached at certain points. 1 The cold snap which has prevailed on I the eastern slope of the mountains in Colorado for several days became ln- tense last night, the thermometer drop- 1 1 ping to 27 below zero In Denver at 6 o'clock this morning. The cold also B penetrated to the western slope tonight, 9 and Tellurlde renorts 20 below. I Thirty-Two Below. 1 At Fort Collins, in the northern sec- i lion of Colorado, 22 degrees below zero g was registered today.- and -At -Monument, 1 oh the dllde south of Colorado Springs. it was 26 below. At Twin Lakes, near 1 Leadvllle, 32 below was reached. 1 Live Stock Suffering. 9 In Wyoming- the cold has not abated. jj and much loss to live stock, It Is feared, g will result. Railroad traffic In all dlrec- g tlons is seriously impeded, and tele- 11 graph and telephone wires are being fflf snapped by the cold. I Lose Lives in Snowslide. Peter Caeagranda and Rudolph Sarch- II letl. Austrian miners lost their lives to- M day In a snowslldo at Irene, seven miles from Sllvcrton, Colo They wcro snow- M shoeing on the mountaln-sldo when an n avalanche swooped down upon them. N burying them deep' In tho snow. The R cabin In which tho men lived was- P wrecked, and Daniel Casagrar.da, who ft was Inside, was with difficulty rescued. by fellow miners. An effort ie being made g to recover the bodies of the victims of 9 the avalanche Both wero unmarried. g |