Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-22 | Page 1 | West is Isolated by Sleet Storm

WEST IS ISOLATED BY SLEET STORM DENVER, Colo., March 21. A severe sleet storm, accompanied by unusually high winds, that has swept northern Colorado and Wyoming for the last twenty-four hours has virtually paralysed transcontinental communication. Transcontinental Trans-continental telephone and telegraph wires j went down' early today and efforts at ' restoration have proven fruitless. The storm spent its fury early today ! between Rawlins and Cheyenne. U'yo. j The sleet and high wind continued during I the day, with but a light fall of snow. To- night Cheyenne was in the grip of the ; storm, while it widened its range, ex-! ex-! tending south to Fort Collins, Colo, j Tho tai no conditions on i. in New Mexico and southern Colorado. South of ! Ias Vegas a s',cnt storm paralysed all ; conmiunica tion, tho wires going down early today. In that storm center the : sleet lias turned into snow and later re-: re-: ports here state t'iat the snow is drifted 1 in banks from two to four feet in depth. Although trains arriving in .DenvtT from the west were on schedule for ihe main ! part of the d: reports tonight wore tnat i tho Leaver t Kio Grande was biuckeci I by a snow.-didc and .Santa l-'c trains from the west were late.