Show A 1 C SID StORM StORMS S SWEEPS OVER Vf NO J I Worst Blizzard in Years Hits Minnesota Dakotas s V and Canada C nada f. f i j ST ST. PAUL Minn March The 16 The t northwest today was in th the grip of ot one ne of f tho the worst blizzards the of-the f. f the win win- r ter In Minnesota 1 North and South Dakota and western Canada heavy Winds Rinds were piling up drifts of snow 4 and nd seriously interfering with both oth J rail fall and wire communication j In some Bome sections it was as reported that mile after mile of ot telephone and telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph poles have blown down Wire service to South Dakota from the Twin Cities virtually was cut off orf yesterday The storm began early yesterday with a a. heavy gale This morning there was no indication of ot a letup BISMARCK r N D. D March 16 North 16 North I Dakota was today in the grip of ot the worst blizzard of the season O. O W. W I Roberts director of ot the federal fed weather bureau here reported reported the the lowest est barometer barometer barometer ba ba- rometer tho the state h has S for tor forty forty- five years A According to Roberts the the- wind velocity ve velocity velocity ve- ve at 6 o'clock last night was sixty miles an hour There were four Inches of ot snow on oti the ground Mr Roberts said tho the storm extended from Montana to the Great lakes lake as far tar south as northern Iowa Jowa |