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Show WESTERN STATES IN SPRINfil BLIZZARD WYOMING AND EASTERN COLORADO COLO-RADO BLOCKADED BY WORST 8TORM IN MANY YEARS Record, of Forty Years' St.nd,n8 Were Broken When Black Hillt Had Twenty-four Inchea Snow Denver Midwinter scenes were fen-era! fen-era! throughout Wyoming and Colorado Colo-rado as the worst blizzard of the year continued to block highways, threaten threat-en loss of much livestock and Inter-rnpt Inter-rnpt airmail service and railroad and motor bus transportation. This was the fifth consecutive day that the storm had raged over Wyoming, turning turn-ing to apprehension the satisfaction of ranchers at more moisture for crops and ranges. It was the fourth day of ,now and sleet In eastern Colorado. Despite the ferocity of the storm, which temporarily marooned many motorists mo-torists and motor busses on the plains, only one death had resulted. II. T. Higsmbotham of Slevcnville, Texas. was killed when a motor bus struck him near Greeley, Colo. He was work-ins work-ins on his car In the road, and snow obscured the bus driver's vision. The blizzard was the worrt April storm in seven years at Cheyenne, where more than fourteen Inches of snow bad fallen. Twenty-two Inches was recorded at SherldaD, where roads i were choked and busses srandr-d. j There was no train service from Sheridan Sher-idan to the west, with a Lurlicgton train held at Alliance, Neb. |