Show Worst Blizzard of I Winter Sweeps Over I Colorado Wyoming I One Death Charged to Storm I and Property Loss Will Be Heavy Many Buildings Buildings Buildings Build Build- ings Destroyed in Pueblo DENVER Colo Cob March 17 By A. A P. P Lashed P.-Lashed Lashed along by wind that ranged from forty five miles an hour speed In Denver to miles an hour In velocity at Corona Colo Cob at the top of ot the world on th the the- continental divide the worst blizzard bUzzard of the winter toda today swept Colorado and the Rocky y mountain mountair region Snowfall was general throughout the region accompanying accompany accompany- ing rapidly descending tempera tempera- tures One death Was wag attributable to the storm which caused damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars In Colorado Arthur Gullett of ot Brighton Colo Cob was killed when Tie ne was run Tun down b by a coal car at Corona during the height of or the storm WINDOWS SHATTERED At Pueblo Colo Cob plate glass windows windows win win- in dows In th the downtown district were shattered by the wind and fire starting during the storm de destroyed destroyed de- de every building at the Pueblo Pueblo Pu Pu- eblo ebb stockyards In twenty minutes with the exception of ot a hotel In Denver Dener a number of ot automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles were turned over In the streets by the gale but their oc occupants occupants occupants oc- oc escaped unhurt The tram train service was maintained h here re and railroads reported trains operating practically on schedule despite the blizzard SNOW 20 FEET DEEP On the Denver Denyer Salt Lake Moffat railroad which has been blockaded since Wednesday the snow was reported drifted fifteen to twenty feet deep One snowplow snowplow snowplow snow- snow plow was wag burled buried toda today und under r a and arid another was wa-s stalled in the drifts near by The storm extended Into Arizona and New Mexico and in Wyoming fears were expressed ed that the loss of ot livestock would be heavy It If the snowfall continued WIND MANY v l f PUEBLO a. PUEBLO Colo Cob March 17 The The worst windstorm In the history of or orthe the city struck Pueblo at 11 1130 a l. l m. m today steadily Increasing in velocity Buildings were blown down downs own s tort tore windows crashed In telephone ind nd telegraph graph poles and wires blown down and train service delayed on three railways All freight traffic was stopped and passenger trains ran under slow orders The Missouri stockyards east of ot the city w were re totally destroyed bya by bya a fire tire which broke out there about p. p m. m The loss Is estimated by the company at Prompt ac action action IC- IC tion of ot railroad crews In pulling cars from the yards held down the loss and saved hundreds of livestock livestock live Jive stock in the yards HEAVY PROPERTY LOSS Up Ui to a late hour no lives lyes had been lost In the s storm orm though the property damage will be near a hundred thousand dollars The Crescent Furniture building fifty feet teet long was blown from Ninth street to Seventh street The roof was blown from the Goff Goft apartments and was wrapped d around the tower of ot the building The roof root of ot Swinger Music I school and the Southern Colorado was partially blown oft off and part of ot the wall fell tell The roofs roots of ot numer numerous private dwellings d were completely blown off oft HOUSE GETS NEW NEV ROOF ROOF One of ot the freak features of the storm was th the lifting of tit the root roof of a room nine apartment nt house on top of or a hill the roof lodging on top of ot the next house The large smoke stacks of ot the Pope block toppled under the strain of the fierce wind and cut cut wires leading to the building The tower of ot the Salva Salvation Salvati l n Arm Army building at Ninth and Main lain streets was swaying In the storm threatening threatening threat threat- ening at any minute to fall tall to to tOI the the- street below v. Signboards along t highways s 's and In the city were handled han han- handled died like straws b by the iho wind Automobiles braving the early arh part of ot the storm w were r blown about several minor accidents ocI occurring occurring oc oc- oc- oc drivers being unable to hold the cars against the strong I wind CASPER REPORTS HEAVY LIVESTOCK LOSSES LOSSES' CASPER r Wy Wyo March 17 Ac Ac Accompanied companied d b by a high wind one of the most severe blizzard or of th the winter struck central Wyoming early this morning and was tn still raging tonight with sufficient force forre to block highways dela delay railroad traffic and force some flome hardship on the livestock industry The storm Is expected to continue for several se days It is not believed fId tho stock losses will be heavy howe however r. r The coming of th tb the storm WIlt was accompanied by a hea heavy fall fan of ot sleet which was quickly turned Into snow S Several v raI inches Inches' of ot snow had fallen up to tonight The weather report calls calla for tor a cold wave to follow the storm with subzero subzero subzero sub sub- zero temperatures prominent OMAHA AND IOWA IN PATH OF STORM OMAHA Neb March 1 17 What Wb What t is described in dispatches here as one of ot the worst blizzards In the memory of ot the oldest settlers Is Continued from page age 1 WORST BliZZARD Continued from page 1 raging over Nebraska and is headed headed headed head head- ed toward Omaha and Iowa From Prom all aU points of ot the state come reports report of ot loss of ot livestock and an Increasing In In- creasing danger of loss of ot life lite Towns are Isolated and ranchers who left their homes yesterday are marooned maroone-d In the towns to which they ventured Reports from ONeill O'Neill Neb state that the blizzard raging raging- there is the worst since 1888 Fine snow is being being- whipped by a seventy- seventy mile-an-hour mile wind and the snow mow is drifting badly All AU the territory east of ot Casper Wyo is held in the grip ot the blizzard Special efforts are being m made me e to reach adequate cover coer with stock trains en en route to Omaha but enormous loss in stock Is feared A wind that gradually Increased to a a. gale swept S down upon Omaha from the northwest late today and by nightfall a fine snow was being driven by the wind Much damage damage damage dam dam- age to chimneys windows and trees was wag done by the first burst of ot the gale gila I IThe The blizzard is expected expect d to reach here early Sunday morning II COLD WAVE SPREADS IN MONTANA AND DAKOTAS I CHICAGO March 17 The The cold i wave had nad advanced into Montana and t the e Dakotas today subzero I readings being reports from several i points and by Sunday morning was I expected to have reached as far I south as Kansas and Missouri l with witha I a spreading to the lako laka region and the Ohio valley by Sunday night N. N D. D reported 8 de degre degrees degres de- de gre grees gres s below zero with Bismarck re reporting reporting reporting re- re porting 6 below Havre Mont 4 above and Helena 10 above LaBan La LaBan LaBan Ban Manitoba reported 36 below Zero weather is expected for western Kansas for Sunday with from zero to 10 above for tor the eastern eastern east east- em ern part of ot the state Missouri is expected to reach 10 above or cold cold- er Zero weather is expected throughout Nebraska tonight and zero to 10 above in Iowa Cold weather is expected to continue continue con con- throughout the early part of the week to be followed Wednesday or Thursday by fair weather and rising temperatures SOUTHEASTERN UTAH IN GRIP OF STORM DENVER Colo Cob March 17 A A se severe severe severe se- se vere cold accompanied by heavy snowfall and driven by a high wind swooped down from the north upon the Rocky Mountain states earl early to today today today to- to day and was reported spreading rapidly In the southeasterly tion The storm was described by weather weather bureau officials as one of ot the most severe of the winter Subsiding last night in northern states of ot the region where It caused subzero temperatures and heavy snows the storm today had embraced the whole of Colorado Arizona northern New Mexico and southe southeastern stern Utah In Eastern Colorado the storm was reported of ot blizzard proportions I DEATH TOLL IN SOUTH MOUNTS TO 28 TOTAL ME MEMPHIS IPHIS Tenn March 17 The human toll in the tornado which swept northwest Mississippi Thursday was increased to twenty- twenty eight tonight with the death in a Memphis 1 hospital of or Mrs M. M H. H Rich injured when her home at Savage was demolished the receipt of or belated advices s from reporting the death of ot five negroes In a a. farm settlement near that town and further reports of four negroes killed near Rock Hill in Panola county |