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Show mm leaves DEATHAHD RUIN EMPLOYEES KILLED AS STORM WRECKS DERRICKS; $250,000 LOSS AT HOUSTON, TEX. Montana Intensely Cold; Frigid Wavi Hits Arizona; Floods In Spain; Montana Coldest In Nearly a Year Dalian, Ti.-xas. The claws of a tiger -like March sank deep into this state which a few days aKo was warming under a lamblike spring. Tho convulsions of the dying mouth wrecked vcKeanee In a storm which cut through Houston, Beaumont, Liberty Lib-erty and surrounding towns, causing ut least two deaths, brought Amarillo lis greatest snow In eighteen years and played freakish pranks through-cut through-cut the state. Tho western plains were covered under a deep snow and slush, while Galveston, along tho gulf, basked lu a balmy sunshine, fearful its turn would bo next. The storm about Houston and Beaumont Beau-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 3 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 unow and cold are back on the job again in tho 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 home run kings to the sand lots as far north as Montana. Hut 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, 1921, when the mercury sank to ten degrees above zero. |