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Show FIERCE STORM SPENDS FURY ON SALTLAKE CITY Worst Blizzard In Years Breaks Early In Evening and Rages For Several Hoqrg Salt Lake, Dcj. 29. A strapgo b'lzzard marked by peals of thunder, doscended In a lury upon Salt Lake Olty about 7 o'clock last night and I continued for moro than t'nreo hours. 1 In that tlmo 25 mile northern gUBts ! blow n flno snow over tho city, do-! do-! moralizing street car traffic, mnroon-lng mnroon-lng people from their homes, well 1 nigh spot lng their social plans for tho evening and causing no ond of Inconvenience Tho tempcrnturo was not very low, however, nnd tho storm did no great damage. I Reports Indicate that the storm was pretty general nil over tho state I A. A. Justlco, assistant section director di-rector of tho United States weather bureau, Judged tho storm to bo a part of tho blizzard which yesterday was moving southward from Canada and Montana, drifting great "Olumcs of snow as It went. Ho said tho states of Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming nnd Colorado were all hit by It, and that It had travo'cd from Montana with almost Incredible rapidity. A Remarkable Feature Tho most remarkable feature of tho blizzard, both In Its impression upon lay citizens and upon the gov-ornmont gov-ornmont weather expert, Mr. Justlco was the thunder which Inaugurated It and continued at Intervals for half an hour, Peoplo who hoard It were Hterally thunderstruck. They did not know what to mako of It. Little children chil-dren whimpered that thoy were afraid. Thoro had been nn Intermittent snowfall all day. Early In tho afternoon aft-ernoon It was quite heavy, but by dusk It had all but ccaBed. Then at about 7 o'ceck, tho real blizzard broke without warning, save for tho claps of thunder. Theso thunderclaps thunder-claps were heard hero until 7:10 o'clock wheroupen they ceasod. "It was thunder, sure enough," said Mr. Justlco, who was appealed to for a diagnosis of tho storm, In the absenco of'Soctlon Director A. II. Thlcssen. "Thunders during a midwinter mid-winter blizzard Is rare, very rare; but there aro a number of records of It la tho United States. 'I cannot explain why It should occur." |
