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Show DONE TELLS OF SNOW THAT DELAYED TRAIN "Whllo on his way homo from his visit to Chicago, Wlllard Done, stato Insurance commissioner, was one of the unlucky ones who were snowbound during the storm In Colorado. The train In which Mr. Done was riding was first stalled near a little Colorado town, Akron, which Is east of Denver. The train was hold thoro three days while blinding snow drove against tho windows and piled up on all sides of tho train. Tho second evening one of tho proprler tors of the Akron motion plcturo houses cam to tlie train and extended the passengers pas-sengers as well as those of five other trains hold up by tho drlfta, an Invitation Invita-tion to visit his plcturo show as lun quests. How over, tho snow was too deep tor tho travelers to even go from tho train into tho town, so they told the gon-orous gon-orous theater owner that thoy preferred to stay In the warm train and read magazines mag-azines or play cards. After tho snow plows mado It possible for tho trains to proceed to Denver they wore held up there by storms on tho line near Cheyenne. Tho storm also prevented pre-vented the Rio Grande from operating out of Denver, so Don and his fellow passengers waited until tho Union Pacific Pa-cific was reported clear and then took a train for Salt Lake, arriving only a fow hours behind schedule time. |