Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-16
BLIZZARD IN
MIDDLE WEST
Thousands of Dollars of Dam
age by Frost in the Great
Southwest
FRUIT NEARLY ALL KILLED
Mesilla and Lower Pecos Valleys
Are Especially Hard
Struck.

| FL Paso, Texas, April 16.-Cold
weather has done thousands of dol
lars of damage in New Mexico, Ari
zona and Texas. Snow covers the
Sacramento mountains in New Mexi-
co, and the frost last night killed the
fruit blossoms around Alamogordo and
in the Mesilla valley. The fruit was
also destroyed about Barstow, Pecos
and other sections of the lower Pc
| cos valley.
Blizzard in Missouri.
st. Joseph, Mo-, April ia drlv-
ing snow RACES here today. 1t was
a freezing cold night and fruit and
{ vegetables are greatly damaged.
Iowa Frozen Up.
! Sioux City, April 16-Thousands of
fruit buds were blasted by killing
frost in Sioux City and vicinity last
night Snow is falling today.
/ Smudge Pots Save Colorado Fruit.
Denver, April 16.-Reports this
morning from the fruit raising district
of the Grand valley, and from the
Montrose and Paonia districts indi-
cate little real damage done by last
nights frost, and that the fruit crop
of those districts, estimated this year
to be worth $S,000,000. has ESCAPED
harm. Thousands of smudge pots
were kept burning all night
/ At 8 o'clock last night, steam
h tot
eral frost alarm at Garand junction
and Immediately a score of automo-
biles, laden with volunteers, left the
city to aid the farmers of the sur
rounding territory in the work of
smudging.
Terrific Tempest in the South.
Memphis, April 16.-With an aver
age of five inches of rainfall as a re-
SUIT of a storm that yesterday and
last night swept over Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi and Arkansas, the tempest
broke over these states again last
night with fury. Reports from Como,
Marigold and Jamestown, Miss, indi-
cate that many small houses were
leveled to the ground at the latter
place and one negro woman was kill
ed. This is the only fatality report.
ed. Telephone and telegraph wires in
and around Memphis were laid fiat.
Ninety Per Cent of Fruit Killed in
Utah.
Salt Lake City, April 16.-Damage
to fruit in Salt Lake valley from the
frost of last night will aggregate
100000. The apricot crop has been
almost entirely destroyed and peaches
pears, prunes and early apples suf-
fered severely. The use of smudge
pots saved several orchards A half
million dollars will hardly cover the
damage to fruit in Utah county, ac-
cording to information from Provo
last night. Less than 10 per cent of
the crop will be saved, in Davis coun-
ty and the Ogden district the loss is
estimated at so per cent At Brig
nam City, in Cache county, there is
no loss worth mentioning.
Storm Played Havoc in South.
Memphis, April 16.-Reports today
from Mississippi, Arkansas and West
tennessee, tell of much damage from
the storm which swept those sections
last night. The only two fatalities re-
ported, however, are at Scottsboro.
Alabama, where the daughter of J. V.
Brandon was killed by lightning and
at Johnstown, Mississippi where a ne.
gro woman was crushed to death un-
der house
| Alabama Devastated.
Montgomery, Alabama, April 16.-
Ihe Grenola hotel, half dozen stores
and many residences were wrecked at
Greenville, Ala, by the storm just be-
fore noon today. At Forest Home.
twelve miles from Greenville, several
houses were unroofed and a negro
man and woman were injured.
/ Snow at Magdalena.
/ Magdalena, April 16.-The rain of
the past week gave way to a terrific
wind and dust storm and yesterday it
! showed. The weather is quite cold
and If it continues so for any length
of time will have a bad effect on this
seasons lamb crop.
MidWinter at albuquerque.
! Albuquerque n. NJ, April 16.-Fol-
lowing clear and frosty night which
caused the fruit orchardists to sit up
late and anxiously, yesterday morning
dawned bright and sunshiny and it
was believed that the phenomenally
cold, wet weather of the past few
days was at an end. The illusion was
rudely dispelled about 1890 or more
when a seething blizzard swooped
down out of the northwest and COW
cred the ground for few minutes
with white carpet, the snow driving
before strong wind so that it was