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Show RAIII AIID SII017 HIT THREE STATES Heavy Sleet Storms Hamper Communication in Middle West . By Associated Freea DENVER, Colo.. Oct. 2. Heavy sleet storms between Omaha and North Platte, Neb., and between Kansas City and Garden City, Kan., today seriously seri-ously hampered telephone and telegraph tele-graph communication from Denver to point fast. At -the offices of tbe American Telephone and Telegraph company here It wss aald 4 between four and five mllea of pole, war down In Nebraska. The moat aevere trouble In KanMH centered about fifty mllea east of Iodge City. Only one telephone tele-phone wire, and that one operated by the government, waa working east of Denver. It waa aald. The Western Union wires generally were In better condition. REPAIR CREWS BUSY. Report to the local weather bureau showed a cold rain prevailing this morning at Kansas CMy and Omaha, the precipitation at Uie latter point' amounting to one Inch In the last twenty-four hours. 8 now was reported re-ported at Sioux City, la-, while generally gen-erally lower temperatures prevailed In Kansas and Nebraska. At the telephone company 'a offices It was aald linemen were making rapid prul'Sm anil rt was hoped to) restore, some of the circuits by noon. |