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Show FIERCE SNOWSTORMS PLAY HAVOC AT LOA Spcda! to The Tribune. LOA, Feb. 20. Today brought forth one of the fiercest snow and windstorms ever known in this county. The snow Is flying at a height of one hundred feet and tlwro are no prospects of it abating. abat-ing. Tho United Stalea mall left here at its usual time and went about olglit mlle. when the storm got so iiercc the driver could not see his team. The ronds were tilled with snow at a depth of from three to ton foot, which made the roads Impassable. The driver got Into an opening where ho knew thc country and turned hia buggy around and mado his way back to Lon, arriving here at 2:30 p. m. Two men endeavored to erOMs over the mountain yesterday with two wiigona nnd hod to abandon them about soven miles from l.oa. Today it is reported that only the top of one wagon can be seen and the other I.s ontlrely out of sight, tho snow having literally covered cov-ered It up. A number of men with a band of horses will try tomorrow to break open the roads, so tho mall can get through to Richfield. Mm. lrlora A. Russell Is dangeroualy 111 with heart trouble. Tho W'nyno stake haa just been or-ganled. or-ganled. with 13. lr. Rrown as bishop and Warren W. Taylor mid J. S. nastain as counselors. ' Mr. Brown was bishop of Loa ti number of years ago. |