Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-10-22
A Second SNOW
STORM ARRIVES
TWO SEVERE ATTACKS IN ocTo
Ger BREAK AL RECORDS
FOR YEARS.
UNLYSEVENTEEN above
Bad Weather viii Continue Fer Sew.
srsI osys-Loeai People Snow
Bound In Meunssinss-Sheep Suifse

"you needn't think this Ii going To
be IA one day storm over u small area
said Rrandenhurg. the weather man.
Saturday. when speaking 10 the Den.
yer newspaper men about the storm
that was due. 1t will last for four
days. b. general over the Rocky
Mountain region and be the seserest
October storm that has visited the
west In years"
II In common among the matter Of
fact people who always try TO say the
obvious thing 10 attempt 90 poke fun
at the weather forecaster and say
that he knows about as much about
the weather as they do. Our clever
people OF this class seem slow To
learn that meteorology has got % be
an exact science and that storms can
be foretold with reasonable accuracy.
Once In while changing air currents
make the prophecy Of little effect, but
In nineteen cases out Of twenty, as
those who have carefully followed
the weather prophecies made concern
ing this country can testify. the fore
caster Is accurate.
Warnings Of the immiuence OF the
present great storm were flashed 60
every part Of the west and a great
deal Of damage was averted by enab-
ling stockmen and farmers 10 make
preparation for the bad weather.
II began raining In this city Sat
urday evening and during the night
1t turned 10 snow and grew consid
erably colder, Sleet and rain fell dur.
Ing the entire day Sunday and last
night heavy snow fell to a depth of
three or -four inches. and 1t has been
showing slightly all day today. The
maximum temperature yesterday was
sixty-two degrees, but the thermom-
eter fell TO twenty-five degrees above
zero. a range of forty degrees. Last
night the temperature dropped to
seventeen degrees above zero. The
snow has been exceptionally heavy
In the mountains and II the bad
weather keeps up the roads will soon
he impossible.
Little damage was done by the
storm In this city as the snow did
not cling to the wires and branches
OF the trees as II did during the first
fall of the season. and 1t melted rap
idly on the street car tracks and side
walks.
The storm Is general all over the
territory and even e, Paso is In the
throes of winter. Traffic on the rail
roads has been greatly delayed and
many Of the trains are hours behind
schedule. especially from the east. II
Is considered one of the worst Octo
her storms that New Mexico has ever
known and in many places assumed
the proportions of blizzard.
Reports from Albuquerque state
that that city suffered severely
from the elements. The rain. snow
and sleet was accompanied by wind
of tremendous velocity which wreck
eu DuiiuiHSS. Tore DlduCHes lfthi
trees, blew In few windows and
rendered conditions generally uncom-
Portable In the streets during the en-
tire day yesterday, Tents were torn
away or were soaked and flooded
and invalids suffered greatly.
Like reports come from Santa Fe,
Gallup and many other points over
the territory. showing that the storm
in Las Vegas was light in comparison.
Sheepgrowers differ as 10 the results
of the storm to flocks, although IL is
agreed that the storm will do a
great deal OF good for the ranges.
since water was beginning to be need
ed. 1t Is thought that owing to the
splendid condition of the sheep the
losses would be very light and only
occasionally losses would be expert.
enced where the sheep were caught
on the open ranges without protec-
tion of any sort