Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-02-05 | Page 2 | More Rain and Snow Forecaste for Salt Lake; Landslides on Railroads

MORE RAIN AND SNOW PORECASTE FOR SALT LAKE; LANDSLIDES ON RAILROADS NOON BULLETIN. Dr. Hyatt played a Joke on Salt Lake today. He promised more rain or snow, so everybody who came down town this morning was bundled up in an overcoat or furs. The" prediction was fulfilled in the early part of the morning, but about 10 o'clock there came a wonderful change. The cloud disappeared, the sun shone brightly, and genuine spring weather set in. It was a most welcome wel-come relief after four days of almost constant snow or rain. More rain or snow is the cheering prediction for today and tomorrow that comes from Dr. Hyatt, United States weather forecaster. The prediction id full reads: "Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with local rain or snow. Cooler." The cause of the continued strm is a "low'' which is pushing in from the North Pacific ani a smaller "low" which is hanging over the Eastern Rocky mountains and between the two Salt Lake is getting m re than its share of precipitation. Though it rained all d.iv yesterday and the greater part of lat nigh', onlv .7 of an in"h fell aecirdiDg to the weather bureau report. Vhj'e if is Ftorming here the southern part of the State is enjoying sunshine. The storm is general from th At lantir coast and as far south as Ashp-ville. Ashp-ville. North Oarolina. ! The continued rain has melted the snow on the mountain cauvng land elides in many sections. Traffic on the I'nion Pacific has not yet been re stimed owing to the landslide above Ogden which covered that road recent-1v recent-1v and the Park t'itv branch of the Rio Grande Western road is not oper ating today because of a elide whi'h ' covered the tracks. mt a few miles 1 out of Park City. Men are at work clearing the fallen earth today and it is expected that the trains will be resumed re-sumed todav or tomorrow. N'o trouble from the storm was experienced either ; on the main line of th1 Rio Grande j Western or the Oregon Short Line. i The Ttah Light and Railwav com j panv was somewhat inconvenienced j by the storm, but traffic was not interrupted, inter-rupted, though the cars did r.f't al- ways run on schedule time y-sterdav. !