Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-29
A SUMNER RAIN
TURNED TO SNOW
Mild Weather Through Middle
West Is Changed into
Raging Storm
Within Few
Hours.

tending along the Missouri river for
a distance of nearly 100 miles, has
practically cut off not ony Denver.
Tut the whole inter-mountain and
Pacific coast country from the out
side world. Since eleven o'clock last
night, when the last telegraph wire
to the east went down, wire COM
munication east of Denver has been
@ a standstill
The storm started in the eastern
portions of Kansas and Nebraska last
night with a thick fog. 1t later turn
ed to rain then as the cold wave and
strong wind swept across Kansas and
Nebraska. the wires rapidly became
coated with ice. swapping one by one
under the burden.
All efforts to get a through route
either to the north or south have
failed. Neither the Western Union
nor the Postal Telegraph companies
have any Information regarding the
extent of the storm.
All trains coming into Denver are
delayed. Passengers from Leadville
are reported stuck in the snow at
Platte canyon and the Gunnison
[branch gesthe Colqrado and Southern
fs1tisd Sap At Alpine tunnel. on the
south sPnJ'S tfylFi lpf 9h,s road, the
.Stoisnsis said to @sfhe worst in years.
y" Missouri Gets 1t.
St3 Joseph Mo-. Jan. 29.-The
worst storm in this locality in many
years has ragged during the past
eighteen hours. 1t started with a
warm rain, the mercury almost at
summer heat. turned to sleet and
snow and q freezing temperature.
The wind attained a great velocity
and during the night many houses
were unroofod and plateglass win
dows destroyed. Telegraph and
telephone lines are down in all di-
l~ctiOnS.
That a cyclone demolished the
fremont hotel and several buildings
at Macon Mo, is the report brought
here this morning by a travelling
man. Efforts To confirm the story are
unsyailing
Blizzard is Raging.
Omaha. Jan. ga blizzard
heightened by a sixty mile wind
ranged throughout Nebraska. western
Iowa and southern South Dakota all
light and toward morning increased
i'm fury Hardly a single line of com
munication was open in any direction
this morning and in this city public
service corporations were almost de-
moralized
From temperature Of 50 at six
o'clock Thursday evening the ther-
mometer fell amOst to zero at mid
night greatly increasing the serious
ness of the storm. snow fell during
the night and during the early hours
OF the day and was whirled by
strong wind in clouds which COM
pletely filled the air.
Huge drifts of snow formed and
many streets in the city were entirely
blocked. Hundreds of windows were
blown in, chimneys demolished and
scores of street signs torn loose and
blown about.
The chimney of the Swedish Luth-
or1n church in the north end was
blown down ana fell on the roof of an
adjoining cottage. 1t crashed through
the roof into an upper bedroom, in
turing Miss Mayme Mcnamara, who
vas asleep.
Railroads are severely affected and
not a morning train arrived on any
thing like schedule time. Freight traf-
hc is entirely suspended. The tele-
graph and telephone companies re-
port wires down I'm all directions and
today only the wires between Omaha
and Kansas City We're working. The
overland circuits to the west of both
Postal and Western Union We're pros
tratcd and telephone companies re-
port the same condition.
Reports received here before tho
wires broke down indicate that the
fun force OF the storm is being felt
over "A wide area and that intense
suffering viii result