Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-28 | Page 6 | High Winds and Sleet Demoralize the Wire Service

uu High Winds and Sleet Demoralize the Wire Service DENVER, Colo., OcL 28 Light sleet storms and high winds near Stafford, Kan., and a heavy sleet and snow storm between Grand Island and Omaha, Oma-ha, Nebr., today caused the demoralization demorali-zation of telegraph and telephone service ser-vice between Denver and the east, which began last Friday, to continue. At 1 o'clock this afternoon officials of the American Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph company reported the wires were being restored rapidly and hopes were held out for complete restoration restora-tion before night. Government wires that wore working work-ing -were routed from Denver to El Paso, Tex., to Roswell, Clovis and Tcxico, New Mexico and thence to Dallas, Dal-las, Tex. These lines were the only wires working steadily with tho east. All press wires were getting limited service from the telephone company. no i