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Show HEAVIEST STORM IN THE HISTORY OF UTAH BURIES SALT LAKE CITY UNDER SNOW The heaviest snowstorm in the his tory of Utah, according to I'nited States Weather Forecaster A 1 1 ThJpssen, completely paralyzed city traffic in Salt Lake todaj Twenty inches of snow have fallen in the last 36 hours. A telephone message from Salt Lake at noon said snow was then falling and the end of the storm was not in sight. Andrew Gorey, traveling freight and passenger agent of the Chicago-North- n railroad. Walter A. Ilandln. traveling freight agent of the Burlington Bur-lington Route, and Dudley Baker, city passenger agent of the Missouri Pa cific, wpt in Ogden today on business busi-ness They left their Salt Lake headquarters head-quarters in a blinding snowstorm, they said, glad that today was their weekly week-ly time for covering the Ogden territory. ter-ritory. No worse storm has struck Salt Lake this winter, according to the Salt Lake traffic men. The street car system was out of commission. Earl West, manager of the John Scowcroft and Sons' Bales agencj in Salt Lake, stated in a telephone conversation con-versation shortly before noon that the snow was falling irtually in clouds, making It impossible to see across the street. |