The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-10-22

terrific wind Saturday night and Sun
day morning carried down all tele-
graph wires, making the dispatching
of trains in regular order impossible.
Without telegraph service, the Rio
Grande is still moving a few trains.
The Oregon Short Line is blocked by
| freight cars were blown from the
track during the storm. Two passen-
Ogden railroad were blown from the
tracks near Centerville. The conduc-
tor and two passengers were injured.
The Salt Lake and Ogden line is
blocked by many trees blown across
the track. In Salt Lake City more
than two thousand shade trees were
uprooted, and throughout the city
frail buildings in course of construc-
ton were wrecked.
Much Damage at Ogden.
Ogden, u, Oct. pa windstorm
of sixteen hours duration that end
ed at four o'clock this morning, kill
ed one, injured many and did 100000
damage to property. Barns were ov-
erturned, roofs blown off, plate glass
windows smashed, trees uprooted
tya1n nd oil
prostrated. The Catholic church suf-
fered the greatest damage The old
church was blown down and the new
one unroofed and a costly mosaic
window demolished.
Two to Four Feet of Snow.
Colorado Springs, Oct. ga spe-
cial from Cripple Creek this after
noon says: Two feet of snow has
fallen, in Cripple Creek up to noon
today, and it is still showing. At Di-
vide, 20 miles distant on the Colora-
do Midland railroad, four feet of
snow is reported.
West Indian Hurricane.
Mobile, Ala, Oct. 22.-The first
direct news of the terrible West In
dian hurricane which visited the
towns of Ruatan, Tela, Utilla, Colo
RADIO and Ell Province, Honduras, on
October II, was brought here last
night by the Norwegian steamer Har-
old which arrived with a cargo of
fruit. A number of vessels were
wrecked, and several buildings des-
troyed or badly damaged in each
of the towns mentioned. The loss to
owners of fruit plantations will, it
is stated, reach almost a million dol
lars. The British steamer Southern
Queen was blown on the beach at
fRuatan and went to pieces in less
than an hour. The Harold suffered
somewhat and will be docked. tt
dal wave accompanied the hurricane
and swept everything before it. Cap
tain Henrichen reports that when
vessels of all kinds, including three
sailing vessels. No lives were re-
ported lost.
General District Forecast.
Denver, Colo, Oct. 22-Frederick
H. Brandenburg, district forecaster,
makes the following special forecast
of weather conditions: There has
been practically no change in the
distribution of pressure in the last
"a hours The intensity of the high
area everything the northern half of
the Rocky Mountain region, howev-
er, is less marked, and the south
western low area has begun to fill
up Snow has been general in the
last "a hours in southern Wyoming,
Colorado, northern New Mexico and
northern Arizona, while rain has
been falling in the upper Mississippi
valley and along the Atlantic coast.
Snow is indicated for this afternoon
and tonight in southern Wyoming,
Colorado and northern New Mexico.
Tuesday fair with rising temperature
except in New Mexico.
Earliest Snow in Years.
The first snow of the season and
the earliest in years. fell over Ros-