Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-20 | Page 1 | Wire Service is Prostrated

WIRE SERVICE IS PROSTRATES Ten Inches of Snow in New Mexico Cuts Off Communication. Com-munication. NO MAIL IN THREE DAYS Great Storm Traveling Eastward East-ward Floods Roaring Over Roosevelt Dam Spillway. El Paso, Texas, Jan. 20. Ten inches inch-es of snow in the region about Lords-burg, Lords-burg, N. M., which prostrated telegraph tele-graph and telephone wires, complete ly cut off today all means of communication commun-ication with Phoenix and Clifton, Arizona. Ari-zona. Overland trains from California were reported moving eastward slowly, slow-ly, feeling their way without orders. There has been no western mail for three days. Storm Moving Eastward. Denver, Colo., Jan. 20. Indications that the storm of last few days which -has prevailed in Arizona and California, Califor-nia, is moving eastward, were contained con-tained in meager reports to the government gov-ernment weather bureau here today. "Wire communication with Arizona points was badly Interrupted and in some cases completely cut off the flood conditions. Telegraph and telephone tele-phone wires to Phoenix were down and up to 10:30 this morning no advices ad-vices had been received of flood conditions con-ditions in that district. The last report re-port during the night stated that ele-en ele-en feet of water was sweeping over the spillways of the Roosevelt dam on Salt river The rise had ceased but another was predicted for today Last night Phoenix reported littlo property damage and no loss of life El Paso reported telephone and telegraph tele-graph wires down west although tho hope was held qut that communication with the Clifton mining district might bo re-established lato in the day. Clear tonight was the prediction issued is-sued by the weather bureau for Arizona Ari-zona and rain was forecast for southeastern south-eastern New Mexico