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Show IffliiiiEiTi : K1SSS DHUGED'Br : FHW1S1M. Elements on Wild Rampage in Northern States, Train Ser- vice Badly Crippled PAUL, Minn., March V). A ' stem which In lntensitj: equals any, experienced this winter, still .prevailed I in southern Minnesota, South Dakota, j northern Iowa, and north Wisconsin , this morning. South of a line drawn j f' across Minnesota from a point 15 : ;. miles -northwest of the Twin Cities to - ; Lake Superior, running south of the ,: twin ports, ahout 30 miles, enmu re- . ' pons of a heavy wet snow and high i ' winds. In northern Iowa considerable slefet was reported; northern Wiscon-U Wiscon-U sin a? far south as iMadison was cov-ercd cov-ercd with snow and South DakoU.ex-i' DakoU.ex-i' peiienccd a blizzard. Power Llne Crippled. : In the Twin Cities electric light and .'i porer wires were crippled. Street cais were moving with difficulty. Tel-cpl.ono Tel-cpl.ono service between St. Pfiul and Minneapolis was very irregular. Tele-U Tele-U gruph and long distance telephone V communication in all direcaons was I; cr'ppled. ;i The storm was accompanied by high t winds during the night which, how- ever, had diminished somewhat by morning. The temperature held 4 arr.und thirty-two abovo zero. I Trains Diverted. I Transcontinental trains on the Chi-1 Chi-1 cago, Milwaukee and St Paul road ff weie being diverted to Northern Pa-Wm Pa-Wm ciflc between Minneapolis and Terry, Eg Mont., on account of snow blockades 5J on Hie former road west o Aberdeen, 4 S. D Through service on the latter ; r has been tied up for two days by hcavy : snow lu Montana and South Dakota. " Crops Are Damaged. $ KANSAS, CITY. Mo., March 19. KHli vinda continued to prevail early today cvor the greater part of Kansas', B where, nccording to reports received here, they have caused considerable ; damago to the 'growing wheat crop. In j ' addition to crop damage, wire commu- 5 nlcfitlon is impab-ed at many places. : The winds hao swept up volumes I of dust from the freshly planted fields. ' Kansas apparently was receiving ; ' the brunt of the high Avlnds, althougli ' the dust storm area embraces the S ; greater part, of the southwest. |