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Show STORM cms OFF CITIES Chicago, March 29. A terlflc rnln, snow and sleet storm accompanied by high winds, which is raging through eastern Colorado and western Nebraska, Ne-braska, has cut off DenveT from wire communication with the east, and has I caused much delay to rail transportation. transporta-tion. According to re-pons received by the telegraph companies here trains on the Union Pacific and other western west-ern railroads traversing that territory are stalled In huge snow drifts and rotary snow plows have been called luto service to relieve the blockade. The storm appears to have diminished dimin-ished In the eastern slope of the Rockies Rock-ies and moved rapidly eastward, tho Iheavy snow being followed lu Its wake by a sleet storm, and grinding and whlzed across the prairie by a v. Ind which has assumed almost the proportions of a gale. The telegraph companies report that there is not a wire Into Denver from the east, the last one, which was routed by the way of St. Paul, Helena and Salt Lake, falling shortly after 8 o'clock tonight. In many places miles of ipoW have been carried down and the wires lie tangled in a mass of wreckage, which, it Is understood will require several days to clear away. Wires Are Down. Wire communication with the Pacific Pa-cific coast also has suffered materially material-ly from the storm, and wh.it telegraphic tele-graphic communications are possible are going by circuitous and unsual routes. At Limon. Colorado, the sno'-is sno'-is five feet deep, blocking all traffic on the Chicago. Rock Island and Pa rifle railroad. The high wind Is blowing blow-ing the snow Into immense drills. The railway station at Genoa, Colo, was blown away, but as far as known no one was hurt. Forty miles of ti legraph poles were blown down between be-tween Fort Morgan and Wray, Colo The Kansus division of the Union Pacific railroad Is reported blocked east and west of Limon. Not a train was moving west of Julesburg on the central division of the Union Pacific. Pa-cific. Several overland trains were reported stalled in snow banks at Snyder, Colo. Traffic was said to be lmepeded on the Denver & Rio Grande between Denver and Pueblo. North Dakota experienced an old fashioned blizzard, tho wind pilnng up the snow In drifts. IN ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Denver, Colo., March 29. Tonlgnt storm conditions throughout tho Rocky Mountain region showed signs of Improvement. Im-provement. Tho high winds that have prevailed for the last two days have subsided, and, except In the higher altitudes, al-titudes, snow had quit falling, whllo many sections of Colorado, notablv the fruit regions reported stationary or rising temperatures. The local weather bureau tonight issued a forecast predicting tomor-imv tomor-imv would end tho storms. Later reports re-ports Indicate no damage has been done, while from many sections come reports of benefit to ranchers. Tho most serious damage from todavs storm came from the prostration of the telephone and telegraph wires. In some portions of the mountains train service was seriously delayed. From Gunnison comes trie report that a snowstorm Is racing around Marshall Pass, delaying railroad traffic. Severe Blizzard. Alliance, Neb., March 29. A severe Mlzzard, driven by a strong northwest north-west wind today blocked trains In the extreme western part of the state and seriously Imoalrcd telegraph and telephone tele-phone facilities. The thermometer in ranging about 10 above. Wi-at and north of here, on tfte Wyoming Wyo-ming division of the Burlington, con ditlons are reported worse. There s a heavy blockade duo to snow and trains are from thrco to ten hours late |