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Show BLINDING SNOWSTORM OCCURRED ON SAHARA New York. May 11. Colgate Hoyt, who has just returned from an automobile auto-mobile trip through Europe and Afri-' c;t. was last night the guest of honor of the Ohio society at a banquet where he said that he had encountered a fierce blizzard in tho Sahara desert. "We were oa our way to El Katara in the center or tho Sahara desert," Mr. Hoyt told tho society, of which he was formerly president, '-'when we wore overtaken by a bllndlug snowstorm. snow-storm. The snow piled high in drifts on the sand and the wind was biting cold. So far a3 I could learn, it was tho first time that snow had ever been seen In the Sahara desert." |