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Show a pw rem shiver Mississippi Tennessee-and OHier States Swept by Wind and Rain; Snow Ex-V tends to Mexican Border; Much Damage Dam-age to Crops, and Live Stock, EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 19. Snow has been - f ailing . steadilv since last night. It is very cold, and as the storm is general in tins vicinity, heavy damage to live stock and. sheep in west Texas and New Mexico is feared. It isonr of the most severestorms ever known in El Paso, and telephone tele-phone and telegraph service is badly crippled. - Street cars are running with difficulty and trains are late. ,Thesnow is drifting badly. People suffer severely going even a few blocks in the blizzard, which is almost blinding. - There is great suffering among poor Mexican families in the lower-portion lower-portion of the city, who were unprepared for cold weatherj With the exception of two frosts the weather. has been warm in El Paso up to the present time.- 1 DELEGATES CONE TO CONVENTION Distinguished Men to At' tend ; Trans-Mississippi .Commercial Cong'ress at Kansas City. KANSAS CITY". Nov. 13 Guests to the Commercial club banquet tonight and guests and delegates to the Trans-Mississippi Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress,-which will meet here on Tuesday in annual convention, poured into Kansas City today from all directions. They included includ-ed a Cabinet officer, several foreign diplomats, United States Senators and Congressmen, Governors and Mayors, governmental department experts from Washington, together with representatives representa-tives "or newspapers commercial organisations, organi-sations, law3ers and railwav officers. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, who is expected to define the Government's stand . on the Monroe doctrine and South American relations, arrived from Chicago, while David B. Francis, heading head-ing a large delegation of Missourians and escorting Minister Calderon of Bolivia, Bo-livia, Minister Pardo of Peru and Minister Min-ister Cortes of Colombia, with Minister to Colombia John Barrett. with whom the foreigners ieft Washington, arrived from St. Louis. Representatives of Brazil and Chile had -iome in vesterdav, about the same time that . H. Harriman. with a party of railway officials, arrived on a special train from Chicago. Mr. Harriman was booked to arrive at noon today, but came in ten hours ahead of time, after making the run" from. New York in the fast time of thirty-one hours, and nineteen nine-teen miautcs. i s r-- , Farmers have suffered great loss A both in crops and live stock.. MEMPHIS, Tenn Nov. 19. With the exception of eight deaths reported last night as a result of the storm Saturday night and Sunday, which swept portions of Tennessee, Mississippi, Missis-sippi, Alabama and Arkansas, there has been no further loss of life. Telegraphic communication is gradually gradu-ally being restored, but railroad traffic is greatly impaired and in many instances in-stances demoralized. The rain continues to "fall, but the volume is preatly diminished. ' TJpcris from the western section of Tennessee skow that the railroads have suffered -greater damage than ever before. be-fore. The . Nehville, Chattanooga & St, Louis, "the. Mobile A Ohio, the; Southern and the Illinois Central are unable' to operate trains at all through Jackson, Tenn. Tracks are washed out for long distances, bridges are down, and in some places the water is standing stand-ing over the tracks for miles, making it impossible to operate trains. |