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Show BLIZZARD RAGES IN SOUTHWEST! Wire Communication Paralyzed Par-alyzed and Rail Traffic Is Ivetarded. KANSAS CITY, Nov. J9 Wi-h a thia roatine of ice over everythiM asd snow or ?leet falling in neark all 5elioDS, the southwest today wa? in i tie ETip of winter. Under tic weight of the iee, telephone and telegraph i t wires snapped and communication was paralyzed throughout the section. Rail road traffic was interfered w-ith. but it was said trains were running with- in a half hour to tvro Lours of scr?dule. i The storm struck the routhwest yesterday yes-terday in the form of rain which froze i r as it fell last night, later turning to leet. Today snow flurrv a were re-ported re-ported generally from Missouri, Kan- : ?as. Oklahoma and the Texas pauhan- 1 Ve. Teaiperatures ranged w-11 above j zero, but no reports had been received , I at the weather bure::u from western j Kansas City. Amarillo, Texas, report- I ed 16 degrees atiove zero and Wichita, ' Kan., 18. At Kansas City it was 24 degrees tliis morning. Much colder weather was forecast for tonight. Coupled with the continued cold t weather ie- a serioud shortage of fuel f and from towns came reports of drastic j efforts to secure wood or coal. , DENVER, Colo., ov. 29. Reports j fiom the Rocky mountain states toda3' indicated the cold ?nap is over. Warm- ! er-temperatures w,?re reported from all j orer the district, except in western t Colorado, where :. heavy blanket of snow proba'olv will hold ba"k the com- I ing of wanner weather several days. ' |