Show I RECORDS ARE SMASHED BYi BY I i SNOWSTORM t Y P 7 rr 7 4 41 r By 6 o'clock this morning 4 i- 4 or eighteen inches of snow had hadr hadr 4 r rei 4 r fallen in this city By noon an 4 4 Y add additional two inches of depth 4 i. 4 hid had b been n recorded by the local 4 4 j. weather oather bureau making theto the to total 4 4 i 4 tat tai fall twenty inches By 6 4 i il 41 l o o'clock clock this evening a a. record of oC 4 4 two twenty-two inches will have fall fall- 44 4 4 r en elf Tho greatest depth ever ever- 4 i 4 recorded for a single storm before be- be 4 4 4 fore was ten and one half inches 44 4 4 for an uninterrupted fall of 4 4 twenty-four twenty hours in February of i 4 4 i 1899 4 Tho for forecast cast is Fair and 4 4 colder to tonight ht Thursday cloudy 4 I 4 r and w warmer e 4 j I t 44 4 v I 1 has the city had bad such sueh a storm torm as as the one ope which bc began an at Kl 1017 o'clock Monday e evening and is still raging n without si sign of of abatement 1 I By C G 0 o'clock clock this morning ci eighteen inches of snow had fallen and by 6 0 tomorrow o'clock-tomorrow k mornin morning if tho the storm Continued on page 2 I STORM STORN Continued from page paco J. J keeps up P for an any time this mark will win havo have been left tar lar behind During Durin twenty four hours in February Fabre- Fabre ary nry of 1809 ten and one half inches fell Until yesterday this was a record re Durine During During Dur- Dur ing ine Monday onda- onda night alono alone a foot of sno snow in this cit Unless Un Un- foil fell on the on-the the benches city loss los anew is heavy y and wet remains remains remains re re- re- re mains in tho the paved district for any time Monday morning saw a depth of oC eight inches on Main ain street For two days hundreds of men in the employ of the city street ct car telephone and telegraph companies and antI hundreds of citizens havo have been hen working energetically ener ener- to keep streets wires car carlines lines fines and pathways in service Yet all allaro allare are aro in more moro or l less sg unsatisfactory ory con con- Forecasts issued by bj the tho local weather bureau predict a clearing up and ana drop in tho the mercur mercury tonight The same prediction prediction prediction pre pre- diction covers co the northern portion of tho the state Thursday is is o expected to bo be cloudy but warmer Cold to tho the South In tho the language e of the we ther may issued this morning Tho The two storm centers have ha united over Kansas causing rain rain or snow over r portions of Utah Idaho Colorado Ore Ore- c cpu on Washington California Montana ew Mexico Nebraska Kansas tho the Da Da- kotas Minnesota lake lako re region on Ohio valley val val- ley 10 Tennessee Georgia Georcia and north Atlantic Atlan Atlan- tic states Ilea Heavy snowfall is reported over central and north Utah North Korth Da Dakota Dakota Da- Da kota and Minnesota Over south California California Cali Cali- I fornia forum Nevada British Columbia and tho north Atlantic states tho the barometric pressure is high The lowest temperature tempera tempera- turo ture at time timo of report was over south Utah and Nevada e 16 to IS 18 degrees cs Warning is bein being given iven i of a cold wave ayo predicted for this evening o At 6 o o'clock clock this morning mornin the t showed it to be he 30 degrees above e zero This is a drop below records for the preceding day Real Thanksgiving Weather With e eighteen inches of snow noW in the city the depth in tho the hills is is estimated three times as great reat between four and five fi feet This heavy wet snow will pack as it falls faUs and tonight's cold wave wa may freeze it into a hard mass All this promises water supply for farm fann farmand farmand and city so all localities sh sharing rin in the storm arc are deli delighted delighted- With snow covering the outside world Salt Lake City will cat its Thanksgiving in ing dinner in genuine old oll fashioned Thanksgiving weather Other cities reporting precipitation either in form of rain or snow are Bismarck N. N N D. D D with a fall faU of SS inch Denver 38 of an inch El Paso 66 of an inch Kau Kansas s City 65 GS Moorhead Moorhead Moor Moor- head N N. D. D 22 of an nn inch and St. St Louis with 48 of an inch fall Salt Lake Lako City had 75 of an inch fall fan during durin f the thc twenty lour hours ending at 6 0 o'clock elo k this morning durin during the preceding twenty four hours it had SO 80 of an inch makin making a total of inches This is rainfall measurement measurement measure measure- ment meat and equivalent to ci eighteen inches of snow snow- Actual measurements show how the tho same result An interesting feature of tho precipitation reports is Moorhead's 5 standing at the top of the tho wet list This city is just across tho river from rom Far Fargo o. o Fargo Far o is a a. dry town so 60 those with thirsts go co over or to Moorhead Moorhead wido wide wet is famed far and as a town Thus tho the weather r man has hos had bad his bis little joke |