OCR Text |
Show !T0nriAD0 LEAVES DEATHAND HUM EMPLOYEES KILLED AS STORM WRECKS DERRICKS; $250,000 LOSS AT HOUSTON, TEX. , Montana Intensely Cold; Frigid Wave Hits Arizona; Floods in Spain; Montana Coldest In Nearly a Year Dallas, Texas. The claws of a tiger , like March sank deep into this state which a few days ago was warming under a lamb-like spring. The convulsions of the dying month wrecked vegeance in a storm which cut through Houston, Beaumont, Liberty Lib-erty and surrounding towns, causing at least two deaths, brought Amarillo its greatest snow in eighteen years and played freakish pranks throughout through-out the state. The western plains were covered under a deep snow and slush, while Calveston, along the gulf, basked in a balmy sunshine, fearful its turn would be next. The storm about Houston and Beau- I mont caused damage which may mount to several hundred thousand dollars and it is feared many have resulted in several deaths. Reports from Houston state that the same storm tore through residence resi-dence sections of the city between S and 4 o'clock causing damage now estimated at about $250,000. Streetcar transportation was hampered by fallen trees and broken wires, and the residence res-idence sections was without lights for many hours. Denver, Colo. The winter twins-snow twins-snow and cold are back on the job again in the Rocky mountain region after a two-month's lay-off that sent housewives to their spring cleaning tasks, golfers to the links and aspir ing nome run Kings to the sand lots as far north as Montana. But the old saying: "If we don't have it when we ought' to have it, we'll probably have a snowy spring," seems in a fair way of being proved true; for snow and near-zero temperatures temper-atures are in evidence in virtually every part of the mountain territory, Montana cities are experiencing the coldest weather in nearly a year and the Treasure State city Livingston-had Livingston-had the two coldest days, Sunday and Monday, on record since December 27. 132-t, when the mercury sank to ten degrees above zero. |