Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-31
STORM CENTER NOW EAST
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range passenger train. The Rio Grande
Southern road, however, is still badly
blocked in the vicinity Of Durango and yes
terday the big rotary pillow was broken.
The line to Telluride has been blocked for
nearly a week and 1t probably will be an
other week before the road In opened. The
line to Silverton was opened last night,
after being blocked ten days, Some of the
snow slides cut through were from thirty
to forty feet deep. Trainloads OF coal and
supplies are being rushed to Silverton,
which city has been close to famine.
The high line. or Leadville, branch of the
Colorado g. Southern is having much
trouble with huge drifts and two passenger
trains are snowbound at Boreas station, on
top of the range. All the passengers on
the snowbound passenger train from
Denver which got stuck near Como have
been brought into that town and are being
cared for. The weather in the mountains
has cleared. but it is still intensely cold.
Half Million Loss in Texas.
DALLAS, Texas. Jan. So.-Damage from
fire, and havoc wrought by the high wind
estimated at about 500, ooo-was caused
during the last two days in Texas and
Oklahoma.
In Dallas alone within two days there
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residences were burned with losses OF
$4,000.
-Four residences burned yesterday al
Grand Saline.
The grain elevator at Bison, near King.
fisher, Okl.. with a quantity of corn In
cars burned. causing a loss of about t26, 900
In the Glenn oil pool, near Tulsa, tn,
damage is probably $4,000 by reason Of thu
wind having leYeled many derrlcks. The
walls of a hotel was wrecked at Muskogee
Fifty derricks are down in the oil fielC
near Keifer, Ok.
Twelve fire alarms in the space between
sunrise and sunset was the record a
Houston, but all the fires were ex
tinguished.
In the Texas Panhandle the sand storm
was terrific. The gale has been FOLLOWED
by a cold wave, which embraces the entir
southwestern country from Kansas L
southern Texas and into New Mexico.
storm Spends Its Force.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. O.-Afte being Sc
curely wrapped for the last twenty-fou
hours in the grasp of the most severe bliz
Yard on record, reports today from til,
southwest showed that the storm had spen
! its force and that conditions were improv
ing. The temperature, however, remainet
; at It's lowest point, In many places a droI
of from 40 to 90 degrees being experiences
since the beginning of the storm. Tele
graph and telephone communication whicI
had been almost completely cut off 70
twenty-four hours, was slowly being re
stored today. Reports from Missouri. Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas re
ceived at the local weather bureau thi
morning reported clear but colder weather
|, The wind had almost died out. The fol
/ lowing temperatures were reported today
5 all showing a fall OF from 30 to 80 degree
in thirty-six hours:
3 Concordia, Kan. 2 above; Wichita, s
= Springfield, Mo, 4; Oklahoma City, 16
D Amacillo. Tex, 12; Forth Worth. &c.
a According to Patrick Conner, offics
r weather forecaster. the storm is over $
far as the territory west OF the Mississippi
river is concerned.
Locally the wind, which for thirty min
8 utes last night attained the hurrican
. velocity OF eighty miles an hour and whic
had been blowing at the rate of sevent
miles for twenty-four hours. dropped I
the almost usual twenty miles. But In
a temperature here today registered / abov
zero. a drop OF 90 degrees in thirty-ty
Q hours.
o Church Torn from Base.
$ HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Jan. 90.-The ThIr
n Baptist church, in the south portion {
the city, was lifted from it's foundation
yesterday by the heavy wind and carrie
o one block TO the Central avenue entranC
4 OF the aklaw Tacetraek.
$ Several plate-glass windows were broke
either by the pressure Of the wind or b
n flying missiles. There is much damaa
here and there, the greater part of whic
is represented in the stripping OF foliae
from magnolias, which are especial
heavy leaved this winter.
s Wind Fans 100000 Fire.
- OKLAHOMA CITY, -Okl., Jan. 30.
y Famed by a sixty-four-mile wind seye
n fires in as many sections Of this cit
yesterday destroyed property valued /
IS $4,000.
,r shortly before noon the building oceupie
by the Oklahomsn was Quilted, causing
N loss Of $4,000. Several hours later the war,
d house of the ]. l.. Case company WI
W destroyed. Loss about 800. 600.
Five other fires followed
BIiH1ard In Kentueky.
LOUISVILLE. KY, Jan. S.-KentucL
y and other parts OF the south which yeste
.