Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-03-29
COLORADO HAS
HEAVY STORM
Snow and High Winds Are
Sweeping Rocky Noun
tain Regions
CUT Off FROM THE WORLD
Telegraph Service Demoralized.
Serious and Swift Drop
in Temperature.

Denver, March 29.-Heavy rain,
snow and high winds are sweeping the
entire Rocky mountain region north
of Central New Mexico today. The
telegraph service is seriously inter
fered with and for several hours CEN
tral Colorado was all but cut off from
the outside world. Heavy snow is re-
ported in northern New Mexico with
a temperature of "a degrees, a drop of
80 degrees since yesterday. The snow
extends into central Wyoming. Duran
go, Telluride, Pueblo and other cities
of Colorado report heavy SHOWS,
while in Denver the storm took on the
proportions of a mid-winter blizzard.
Salt Lake Lashed to Fury.
Ogden, Utah, March 29.-The worst
storm experienced on the Great Salt
Lake since the construction of the rail
road trestle across Salt Lake today
churned the waters into maelstorm
and sent enormous waves against the
embankments of Lucien cutoff, wash
ing out part of the east and west ap-
proaches and causing tie-up of all
traffic on the Southern Pacific. Trains
probably will be detoured at Cobre,
Ney., and sent via the Western Paci-
fic to Salt Lake City. The wind early
this morning ng<attained the proportions
of hurricane. The gauge at midlake
showed akvelocity of seventy miles an
hour.
Heaviest Snow of This Winter.
Laramie, Wyo., March 29.-The
heaviest snow of the winter fell here
today and is still falling. A heavy
wind is drifting the snow badly, but
trains service so far is not interfered
| with.
Snow Driven BY Gale.
Cheyenne, Wyo., March 29,-t
heavy snow, driven in sheets by fiji
ty mile gale, is prevailing in eastern
/ Wyoming and western Nebraska to
day. The wires are prostrated ant
trains are delayed.
All Wires Down.
Denver, Colo, March 29.-The wind!
of almost hurricane violence, accom-
panied by heavy rain and snow, have
today almost cut off from the outside
world the entire region west of Kan
sas City to the Pacific coast. From
Santa Fe, n. NJ, well into centra
Wyoming the storm. has ragged since
last night, prostrating telegraph ant
telephone wires and delaying railroa,
traffic. Around Julesburg, Colorado
long stretches of telegraph poles hay
blown down, blocking that avenue o
overland telegraph traffic, while tn
high winds, rain and snow tore dow
the wires on the south, the centra
routes via Pueblo and central Ka1
sas. The Western Union and Posts
lost practically every wire to the eas
this morning. Two telephone wire
: were pressed into service but they to
soon went down before the storm, an
for several hours every wire frol
the east into Denver was silent.
Violent Storm at Roswell.
Roswell, N. NJ, March 29.-Th
!. worst wind and dust storm in man
, years hit Roswell and the Pecos vale
:, early yesterday morning and increa
ed in violence all day. Last night
ragged with unabated fury and the ter
perature dropped in a manner tn;
caused grave apprehension on the pa
of the fruit growers. Smudge po
were out and if the mercury keel
dropping a strenuous effort will
/ made to save the fruit. Considerab
| damage has been done to out bull
ings, trees, shrubbery, sign boards al
other light structures and a deep coa
ing of dust has covered the househo
Y goods in every home in the city. TT
storm which is the first sand storm
the year is proving a record breake
Worst in Years in San Miguel Count
Las Vegas, N. NJ, March 29-Stal
n ing 1 o'clock yesterday morning, Il
I most terrible wind and sand storm
years has been raging here all d
and is still going it hard. The weat
II er has turned much colder and Il
wind has done more or less dama
while the sand has invaded eve
corner of every house in town.
Sun Obscured BY Sand at FL Pa:
n Ell Paso, Texas, March 29.-T
le first real, genuine, west Texas sa
&c storm came the way of Ell Paso y,
terday and shrouded the city in p
- verized rock, and profuse profani
oI The sand so obscured the sun, vest
'e day and this afternoon that it W
" as dark in the city as on a rainy d;
:; 1t is the worst standstorm most p
pie say, since the spring of 1903.
- Globe, Ariz., March "a hea
" rain with snow fell last night. 1t
it apparently general throughout
TX ella va1Inv A 1iUbt cpor, foJ1 l., I