Show BLIZZARD IN WESTERN WYOMING this to is the blizzard period in the rocky mountain region owing to KB its more exulted altitude western wyoming generally gets a first and hardest but wo we in utah alway ways got get an installment and sometimes a heavy one of whatever the meteorological bureau has to dispense in the weather line the flurries we had bad here early in the week were more pronounced across the line where it the people had bad a pretty severe time the bramie boomerang announces that one of the worst blizzards that was ever experienced there at this season 0 at the year began tuesday night and raged all next day it was not cold but the wind and snow enow made it almost impossible for people to leave the house there was scarcely a sidewalk in town free from drifts of irregular depths business has been stagnated stagnate dand and many who could not use telephones for the transaction of business and ordering household supplies have allowed matters to stand or gone without the needed articles there were not even paths about the city desultory tracks were seen up and down the middle of the streets street and winding around snow bank banke but every man was the architect of h bis Is own course no school was vas held at either university or the public schools the greatest difficulty however was experienced along the railroad the snow being wet did not drift badly but it broke the wires down they toll fell early this morning at granite canon and were down from there to hillsdale Hilj sdale on en the nebraska division this blocked the road entirely although some trains train were handled by dispatchers pato pat hers chers sant gout from here around over the northern pacific by way of minneapolis and helena while othes others were reached around over the denver and rio blo grande the line being down for a long distance and in some places a mile at a stretch no effort was made to move any trains except passenger trains drajus were hold held at cheyenne in laramie Liar amle and rawlins at the telegraph line to the west worked all rights right but trains were not moved busine business Busin esp has therefore been at a perfect standstill the storm has been quite general but has been severe revere along the union pacific only from wyoming fifteen miles west of there and about fifty miles milea east of cheyenne laramie seems to be about the contra centre of the th at arm irm area west of wyoming the now is melting about as fast as it falls while on the east side of the hill the snow is not so BO heavy nor the wind so BO hard the severity of the storm is centered ii lito to an area of cuare square although it hb ha h a B been storming throughout t hout the entire state no 1 anu ana the fast mail were both over a hour late on the date named engine 1483 which brought the mall mail over from cheyenne stuck in the snow enow in the yards at laramie that morning and hal haj to be shoveled out several cabooses cabo oses were alwo oft the during the day it t was expected that thirty three car loads of cattle would be loaded here that day but the storm made it impossible to do so monte blevins and the spalding Bp alding outfit had head or 01 cattle on the plains just juat west of the city the night becore holding them to load the next morning while a bunch of about as many mure more belonging to the swift outfit were further out on the plains expecting to get in and load they had a terrible experience peri ence with the cattle during the night and the animals could not be prevented from drifting and scattering they will probably not be able to aluad for several days A A crew was started out from cheyenne wednesday morning to put up the telegraph line the oldest residents cannot remember a worse storm at this season of the year although there have been many hard ones during the colder weather the railroad company has not been obliged to use uee snow plow the cuts cute and grades on the road have been given such careful attention during recent years that it now takes tabes an unusually heavy drifting snow to block the road school children and several ladles ladies were down in the snow about the city during the day and in one or two in it to is said eaid they would have per lobed had help not been near off the maln inabin borough fares the snow was waist deep io in man many y places the drifts could hot be seen on account of the storm until one plunged into them WREATHED IN a serious grin the information cornea comes from ogden that the be liberal central committee wish it announced that the parade and torchlight planned for tonight has been abandoned con on account of the weather 12 two degrees moreon more of chilliness would cause them to wish it announced that the convention planned for today had also been abandoned on account of the weather the melancholy days have come I 1 |