Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-27
RAIN AND SLEET
HAVE PLAYED HAVOC
With Transportation Facilities
And Telegraph Service 10
New York.
CITY IS LIKE A SKATING POND.
Blizzard Strikes the Southwest Spread
Ing Over Missouri, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Iowa aud Oklahoma.

New York, Dec, 27.-Raln and sleet,
following the heavy snowstorm, have
played havoc with transportation IA
cilitles and the telegraph service.
Failing on top OF the snow covered
payements and sidewalks the rain has
formed a hard crust OF Ice. and New
York today was like a great skating
pond The rails Of the surface cars
ana elevated tracks were so slippery
that no effort was made 10 keep any
thlng Ike schedule time The suburban
trolley lines We're almost paralyzed. but
trains were late on every line. How
badly the Il raph and telephone wires
nave been crippled could not be esti-
mated early today An through the
east and IN Pennsylvania the wires are
coated with Ice and the extra weight
has broken many Of them.
IN addition to the delay caused by
sleet the c0ngested traffic Of the upper
harbor and the North and East rivers
crowded with ferry boats. was ham
pered by fog so dense that it was
stlll almost dark at 1880 a. m. and ferry
boats bringing the thousands Of peo-
pie employed In this city from Jersey
city and Brooklyn picked their way
slowly nom slip 10 slip IN constant
danger Of collision. No serious acct
dents were reported.
STORM IN PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia. Dec 27-Traffic Of every
sort In this city was badly hampered
during the early hours today by a dense
fog. Rain fell during the night A
heavy thaw resulted and this, following
the two days and a half Of snowfall.
converted the streets into rlyulets.
Train service was irregular.
BLIZZARD IN SOUTHWEST.
Kansas City Dec 27.--Thls portion OF
the southwest today was I'm the CRASH
OF q genuine blizzard the nrst severe
cold weather OF the winter. II extended
through Missouri, into Nebraska and
Iowa, over the whole OF Kansas and ln-
70 Oklahoma and Indian territory. Snow
fell 10 depth OF nearly a foot and
driven by high wind drifted badly.
Street car traffic IN Kansas CITY was
demoralized, while railway trains
IN every direction were DELAYED
and some stalled. At some points
particularly north Of Kansas
city. In Iowa and Nebraska
telephone and telegraph wires were
rendered useless by sleet and for many
hours communication north OF st. Jo.
scph into those states was impossible.
The thermometer WAS close 10 the zero |
mark, showing fall IN temperature |
since midnight Of II degrees, and a fan |
within "a hours OF IS degrees. More |
snow with continued fail IN tempera- |
ture was predicted.
AROUND TOPEKA.
Topeka, Kas., Dec. 27.-The storm |
which began here last night has as
stunned the proportions OF a blizzard |
and the temperature Is at zero with 1
strong wind blowing which drifts
the snow badly Street railway trait
hc Is practically suspended and east
bound trains are late on all the rail-
roads Reports received here az the
weather bureau headquarters and az
the general offices OF the railroads indl.
cate that the storm extends to all por-
lions OF Kansas. The Santa Fe claims
That telegraph wires are working but
the Rock Island is having much troy
bic with telegraph wires. Only one
wire Is working az far west as Herring.
ton and at Q o'clock this morning com.
with the southwest lines
and the northwest line 20 Colorado was
almost completely shut on
AT WICHITA.
Wichita, KaS,. Dec. 27.-The first real