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Show WINTER GRIPS SOUTH KANSAS CITY. Mo.. No 29 With a thin coating of ice ocr everything and snow or fleet falling in nearly all Sections, the southwest today was ir. the grip of winter. Under the weicht of the ice. telephone and telegraph wires snapped and communication was paralyzed throughout tie section Railroad traffic was In'erf-red Wl h but it was said trains were running within a half hour or Iwo hours . schedule. The storm struck the sou th est pes terday in the form of rain whi"h froze as it fell last night, later turning to Bleel Today snow flurries were v ported generally from Missouri, K r saa Oklahoma and the I aaa Pan handle Temperatures ranged well above z.-ro but no reports bad been received at the weather bu.cau her. from western- Kansas Amarill j, Texas, reported 16 degrees above sera and Wichita. Kansas, 18. At Kansas City it was 1'4 degrees this nmr.ilng Much colder weather was forecas) for tonight. Coupled with the conciuued cold, weather is a serious shortage of fuel and from many town? came tepo.ts1 of drastic efforts to secure v.cod . r coal. DENVER, Colo. Nov. Reports from 'he Rocky mountain states today indicated the cold snap is over. In Denver at 10 o'clock this morning the mercury stood at 35 degrees ; rise oi approximately 4L' degree's in 24 hours. Warmer temperatures were reported re-ported from all over ihe district, except ex-cept in western Colored whore a h'U.y blanket of snow probably Will hold back the coming of wartrier weather several days. |