The San Francisco call., 1906-10-23
Stories of Death and Ruin
From StormSWept Sections
Great Damage Is Done
During Blizzard in
Middle West.
SnoWstorn Extends In
to Colorado, Wyom-
ing and Kansas.

DENVER, Oct. 22.-The storm
throughout the mountain region, which
began here with rain on Friday,
changing to snow on Saturday. sub
sided this morning. 1t is said to have
been one of the worst storms in this
vicinity since 1892. There was more
the melted snow measured Is inches
The temperature generally fell to 20
degrees Locally but little damage
was done. Sheepmen In Wyoming, Col
orado and New Mexico, it is believed,
will suffer heavy losses. as they were
unprepared for such severe weather.
There are hundreds of tons of sugar
beets and thousands of barrels of ap-
pies still in the open IN the northern
part of Colorado, and should the cold
continue the damage will be very great
to the ranchers. Telegraphic service
throughout the West is badly ham
pered and trains are indefinitely Late
BLIZZARD Is ABATING.
PUEBLO, Oct 22.-The blizzard
which has been raging in this city and
vicinity since early Saturday afternoon
was slightly abated this morning.
Railroad and street car traffic is badly
crippled The Rio Grande west Of
Pueblo has suffered most from the
snow, which is unusually heavy along
its line, ranging from sixteen inches
at Florence to thirty inches at Buena
Vista. Trains from the East are gen
orally from a few minutes to several
hours late. Cattle and other stock on
ranches suffered from the wet snow
and cold.
special dispatch from Beulah,
twenty-eight miles west of this city,
received at noon today. said that forty
two inches of snow had fallen there
and that it was still showing.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct 22.-The
severe blizzard which has been in prog
ress for the past forty-eight hours
broke ais morning. Trains are some
wnat delayed. The temperature in
Colorado Springs this morning was
about Is degrees above zero.
ELLIS, Kan, Oct. 22.-Colorado's
snowstorm is passing east and pre-
vailed today in Western Kansas. Pas
sengers reaching here this morning on
belated eastbound trains report a
heavy snowstorm between Ellis and
Denver, at some points assuming the
proportions of blizzard, with from
Tour inches to one foot of snow on the
ground The snow is drifting badly at
a good many points. A twenty-four
hour rainstorm preceded the snow.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct 22.-The
storm which began in Northern Wvo-
ming Friday and spread generally over
the State Saturday and Sunday con-
t1nued without abatement in this sec
ton today. About a foot of snow has
fallen, and all trains have been de-
layed. stock on the range is in good
condition, and there will be little loss
unless extremely low temperatures fol-
low. The storm increased in violence
as 1T reached the southern part of the
State, and wires are reported down
east and west. The report that a rail-
road brakeman was frozen to death
while out with flag is unfounded.
CARS BLOWN FROM TRACK.
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 22.-Rail-
road service between Salt Lake CITY
and Ogden is utterly disorganized The
terrific wind Saturday night and Sun
day morning carried down all teIe-
graph wires, making the dispatching
OF trains In regular order impossible.
Without telegraph service the Denver
and Rio Grande system is moving a
few trains The Oregon Short Line is
blocked by wreck near Woods Cross
ing, where thirty freight cars were
blown from the rails during the storm
Two frail passenger coaches on the
Salt Lake and Ogden Railroad were
blown from the track near Centerville,
rolling into the ditch, and the con-
ductor and two passengers were pain
fully bruised. The Salt. Lake. s and
Ogden line is blocked by many trees
blown across the track. In Salt Lake
City more than 1000 large shade trees
were uprooted and throughout the city
frail buildings and buildings in course
of construction were wrecked.
OGDEN, Utah, Oct. 22.-The wind
storm of thirty-six hours duration
that ended at 4 o'clock this morning
killed one man, injured many and
s100,000 damage was done to property.
Hiram Hibbs, while attempting to an
Choir his barn, was struck by a flying
plank and killed. Barns were over
turned, roofs of houses blown off, plate
glass windows smashed, trees uprooted
and telegraph and telephone poles
prostrated. The Catholic church suf-
fered great damage. During the height
of the storm three fires broke out. but
were controlled by the Fire Depart
ment
AMARILLO, Texas, Oct. 22.-con-
siderable snow fell here yesterday and
last night, and today it is sleeting.
This is the first snow before frost in
the Panhandle in twenty-five years.
DULUTH, Mimi, Oct ga blanket
of heavy snow, six inches or more, fell
last night in Northeastern Minnesota,
covering the Vermillion and Mesaba
ranges and extending as far west as
Fosston.
SIOUX FALLS. S. D., Oct. 22.-David
Ganaway and Hubert Brown, young
sons of prominent residents of Cham
berlain, were found dead in the prairie
today. victims of the storm that swept
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