Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-04-09 | Page 6 | Winter's Backbone Not Broken, Only Bent

WINTERS WINTER'S BACKBONE NOl NOt 1 BR KEN ONLY BENT Snow and Sleet Storm Now S Sweeping Ea Eastern t rn States Crops Endangered By United Press WASHINGTON April Winters Winter's 8 Winters Winter's backbone believed to have b been en broken In many many places had merely been bent It snapped back into place with a vengeance vengeance ven yen and according to the weather bureau will wUl not be sm smashed sled good for several days As a result of the April one of the latest In many years a 8 snow and sleet storm that thai start started d yesterday Is sweeping th the thO Ohio Ohi valley vahey Pennsyl Pennsyl- Pennsylvania vania yanla and some sections sections of the So SouthA South thA th A snowy gale is whipping Itself out along the Atlantic coast from the VIrginia Virginia Vir VIr- ginia to capes Maine l Freezing breezing weather reported in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and the lake region and the middle Atlantic and New England states has caused grave fears of ot damaged crops The Interior gulf gul and South Atlantic states that have not already received d da a t touch uch of spring freeze will get frosts tonight and tomorrow The unseasonable unseasonable able able cold will prevail probably until Thursday Gales the Atlantic coast reached dangerous dang proportions tonight according according accordIng accord- accord Ing to reports Winds sweeping in from tho the ocean reached a velocity of ot otI six forty miles an n hour off Sandy Hook and forty forty-e forty eight miles off Cape Cod and I the Delaware breakwater The storm Is headed northeast i NEW YORK Ai April 8 A A general i spring snowstorm which had continued continued continued contin contin- I unabated for nearly twenty-four twenty hours later tonight blanketed the higher high high- er regions of Pennsylvania and southern southern southern south south- ern ern New Jersey with white six to eight inches deep and t turned the streets of New York and nearby coast cities clUes Into rivers of slush