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Show SEVtRE BLIZZARD HAS SPENT ITS FORCE TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION IN ! SOUTHWEST BEING RESTORED. I r Temperature Remains at Lowet Point, Wichita Registering 8 Above Zero, Amarillo, 12, Fort Worth, 26. Kansas City. Jan. 30. After being securely wrapped for the past twenty-four twenty-four hours in the grasp of the most severe blizzard on record, reports today to-day fiom the southwest showed that the storm had spent its force and that renditions were improving. The tem-ppraturc, tem-ppraturc, however, remained-at' its lowest point, In many places a drop of frr.m forty to sixty degrees having been experienced since tho beginning of the storm. Telegraph and telephone communication has been almost completely com-pletely cut off for twenty-four hours, ' lint In slowly being restored today. Re- ports from' Missouri, Kansas, Okla-! ii.nia, Texas and Arkansas show clear j but colder weather. The following ! temperatures were reported todays Wichita, S above; Oklahoma City, 1C above; Amarillo, . Texas, 12 above; Fort Worth, ,2G above. Ixically, the wind, which, for thirty minutes last night attained a hurrl-:ane hurrl-:ane velocity of eighty miles an hour, ind which had been blowing at the rate of seventy miles for twenty-four j hours, dropped to the almost usual Iwenty miles. But the temperature bore today registered 1 above zero, a Sroj of sixty degrees in thirty-two hours. . ' |