Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-03-16
SNOW STORM Is
SWEEPING EAST,
Utah and Colorado Suffer Terrific Biz
card and Advance Guard Has
Reached Iowa.

SALT LAKE. Utah. March 13.-
From midnight until daylight today. Salt
Lake was i'll the grasp OF the worst
storm in years. Beginning with drIz
cling rain, wind which attained at
one time a velocity Of 90 miles an hour
soon followed.
Signs were wrenched from their
fastenings, chimneys were IN many
places shattered, electric wires broken
and in some instances roofs carried
away. New buildings throughout the
city were rendered wrecks and the loss
TO uncompIeted structures will be heavy
The Warm Springs bathhouse just north
west of the city, was damaged to the
extent Of thousands Of dollars.
THE telegraph wires were paraiyZed,
but one out of Salt Lake being work
able The wind was followed by one
If the fiercest billiards. ever seen here.
Lion and Lamb Frisk.
DENVER. Col. March ia blizzard
is raging ut Silverton and the adjacent
country in the southwestern portion OF
the state; torrcntial rains III the neigh
borhOod of Salida and Buena vista on
the eastern slope of the continental Ill
vide: nigh winds drifting the snow that
had already fallen around Julesburg ana
Sterling in northeastern COLORADO on Tue
lines of the Union Pacific and Hurting
ton roads, and q clear sky in Denver
sums up the fre&ky weather conditions
in Colorado last night. y WeStDOUnd
train on the Burlington road for Chey-
enne is snowbound ut Sterling.
Grave fears are entertained Tor the
safety Of sheep and cattle in Wyoming:
Already one report has been received
that dove of 5000 sheep had persisted
near Wamsutter.
Snow Storm Reaches Iowa.
DIES MONIES. Ia March ia
heavy snow storm struck Des Moincs
and Iowa early today and is increasing
in severity. Trains have been able to
make their schedules, but cannot i'll a
few hours if the storm continues. Street
railway traffic is badly impeded. The
Des Moines weather bureau reports the
snow general all over the STATE.
Reaches Over Jhio
COLUMBUS. O., March 13.-It has
been showing steadily all morning
throughout central Ohio and farmers are
finding ii difficult t., keep their stoGi.
veil fed. There are ~ inches of Snow
the Level in Columbus. The weather
ureau officials say the present weather
= will continue for thirty hours.
Great Damage in Boston.
BOSTON. Mass, March 13-After
ninety-six hours OF interruption. the tel
egraph and telephone companies at noon
today reported that the prostration
caused 10y the storm Of last Friday had
been overcome The various corpora
tions agree that no such serious damage
as that of last week has occurred since
the terrific storm of November, 1898.
The financial damage is estimated III
Nundreds of thousands of dollars.
Southern Pacific Has Wreck
LOS ANGELES. Cal. March Is
SOuthbOund passenger train No. % on the
Southern Pacific Coast line. due at Los
Angeles last night. was derailed near
Burbank about midnight and has not
reached this city. Heavy rains during
the past two days had softened the track
and the entire train tipped over while
running at very low speed
According to information at Southern
Pacific headquarters i'll this city. the en-
gineer was the only person injured.