Show IOWA REPORTS I WORST STORM IN 25 YEARS Two Cities Without Streetcar Service for 48 Hours and andRa Ra Railroads Annul Trains 5 CHICAGO March 19 By U. U P. P P.- P. The entire country from the Rocky mountains tp to the was In Inthe inthe the grip of a blizzard today Four I persons were killed in Colorado as asa asa asa a result of ot the storm I Damage to the Kansas potato crop and the Oklahoma peach crop will bo be heavy experts said Wire communication was paralyzed Inmany in inmany inmany many sections Telegraph and telephone companies companies com corn reported miles of wire down Passenger r service on railroads ds was curtailed Freight t embargoes were placed in effect In several sections Subzero were re report reported reported re- re port ported d throughout the entire west Nebraska Wyoming Colorado WIs WI's cons cousin In and Iowa Iova advices declared the storm was the most severe in twenty five years The gale was accompanied by a heavy fall ot of snow swept into mountainous drifts by th the wind i TWO TRAINS STALLED Two passenger trains on the ChIgo Chicago Chicago Chi ChI- cago go Northwestern were reported I stalled in the drifts near Boone la Ia Forty families including many children n were forced to flee into the street scantily clad when flames destroyed a large barge apartment buildIng buildIng building build build- ing here Damage was estimated at More than damage was done to a business block in the thel l 1 rt of Omaha's downtown section V n fire broke out dunin the storm Chicago was was threatened with a milk milk famine as dairymen found It impossible to bring their supply over impassible roads The storm swept out of the northwest northwest northwest north north- west causing temperatures to drop twenty to fifty degrees In a few hours ROCKFORD ISOLATED Rockford Ill was Vas practically Isolated Isolated Iso Iso- by the storm No trains have been operated over 0 the Harbor Springs branch of the thep p ania railroad rh nearly a rie a a week Teams carried rh mill mall il over Little Traverse bay to Petoskey Mich l Milwaukee traffic was snowbound by ten and twelve foot drifts Temperatures Temperatures Tem Tern which were the lowest of the winter were reported in many Missouri points The weather bu bureaU bureau bureau bu- bu reau predicted freezing weather In Inthe Inthe inthe the southeast and Atlantic coast states toda today The worst of the I within forty eight storm will pass hours forecasters declared and I will be followed by abnormally high temperatures I STREETCARS QUIT j AT 17 BELOW ZERO V WATERLOO la Ia March 19 U- U Streetcars Streetcar suspended operations here Sunday morning for the first time in years Seventeen below zero iero zero was the minimum registered last night WORST BLIZZARD IN FIFTY YEARS CLAIM FORT DODGE Ia March 19 Following a blizzard of two days' days duration the mercury today dropped to the unusual low depth for March of 1 16 G below zero zero zero-equalling q the lowest temperature this city has had this winter Trains on thre railroads the Great Western Min Min- St. St Louis and Fort Dodge Des Moines Southern were aban abandoned abandoned aban- aban yesterday There has been no streetcar service nere flare nor forty- forty eight hours Old residents here said I that the blizzard was wa-s the worst in iii fifty years NEBRASKA RECOVERING AFTER SATURDAY BLAST OMAHA Neb March 19 Ne 19 Ne Nebraska braska was beginning to recover to today today today to- to day from the effects of n. n l. l blizzard which struck Saturday crippling train service and bringing suffering Continued on page 4 4 OWA REPORTS Continued from page page 1 from cold old to many Some railroad trains were still tied up but rail officials generally reported service getting back to normal In Omaha where three below was registered early today coal and milk deliveries were late because of congested traffic and snowdrifts I but the weather bureau reported arising a arising rising temperature lat later r in the day with prediction for fair and warmer for the state tomorrow w EAST AND SOUTH DUE FOR SHARP COLD WASHINGTON March l 10 Win Win ter's final bla blast t which h has hag been attended at attended attended at- at tended by blizzards and near zero temperatures Jn in the the will overspread the east and south tonight but relief is promised by Vc Wednesday I The cold wave from the northwest will rapidly envelop the east and south t tonight the weather bureau says with frost as far south as ns Palm Beach Fia Fla A storm of or marked intensity is central over northwestern NewYork New NewYork NewYork York today and moving rapidly northeastward Another disturbance of wide extent and ana considerable energy energy en energy en- en ergy Is moving southeastward ot th over the Canadian northwest Today the severe cold wave has overspread the lake take region the gre great t central valley and the middle and west gulf gult states Freezing weather was wag reported as asfar far south as Galveston Tex At Ft Smith Ark the th thermometer regIstered registered registered reg- reg reg reg- ten degrees above zero Many stations in the reported today the lowest temperatures temperatures tempera tempera- tures tunes ever recorded so late in the these I se season on TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAINS DELAYED BY Y BLIZZARD OGDEN OLDEN March March 19 Transcontinental trains from the East were marked up several hours l late te today on account of or the storm In Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming The first section of or Union Pacific train No 19 arrived on time at 6 40 o'clock this morning but the second se section which should have arrived at Is due in at 1 20 o'clock p. p ro ni m. m The Overland Limited and Los Angeles Limited are running from five to six hours late and are scheduled t to reach here at o'clock tonight UNION PACIFIC TRAINS LATE IN SALT LAKE Union Pacific trains reaching Salt Lake tOd today y from the East were beginning to show effects of or storms that have hav been raging In various Middle l Western Vestern st states tes since Saturday The Los Angeles Limited Lim Lim- Limited due here at 2 20 p. p m. m is not expected until some time tonight and the Chicago train tran due In the city before noon arrived late this thi afternoon I |