Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-05-20
RAIN AND SNOW
SOAKING STATE
Twelve Inches in Some Places Help
the Growing CrOps-Hsrd on
Live Stock.
SHORN SHEEP ARE SUFFERING

There is no let up in sight vet.
according to the local weather
bureau.
Rain probably today, with con-
tinued cool and unsettled condi-
tions." is the forecast.
1t was somewhat warmer in
Omaha Wednesday than it was
Tuesday, SO being the lowest tenn
perature registered. Out to the
west it was freezing in Nebraska
and Kansas, in Colorado and Wyo-
ming, with temperatures of % at
Cheyenne and Denver, so at Lander
and 80 at North Platte.
Colonel Welsh said IL might
snow In Omaha during the next
twenty-four hours, but II It does, it
Will be only slight flurries.
Ground Thoroughly Soaked.
Reports received by the Union Pacific,
Burlington. Northwestern and Rock Is
land railroad offices, Indicate that the
storm that set in Tuesday, continued all
Tuesday night and well into Wednesday.
having been general over the whole OF
Nebraska, Kansas, most OF south Da
kots, Wyoming. Colorado. and we'll over
into Iowa. soaking the ground thoroughly
with rain and melting snow.
According TO the railroad reports zen.
orally through wyoming. Colorado and
western Nebraska, today the weather &c
clearing and temperatures rising.
The rainfall nf
hours was the heaviest of the season and
according to data kept at railroad head
quarters 1t was the heaviest snowfall
ever known this late in May
To Help the Crops.
railroad officials who have made a
STUDY OF crop conditions assert that the
rain and snow will be beneficial 20 wheat
ana That wherever the tempeIatur were
10" enough so that snow fell the Hes
sian Tiles and chinch bugs will be killed.
1T Is conceded that in western Me-
oraska' Colorado and Wyoming, where
heaVy snow fell, sheep losses will be
very heavy In the sheep area the lamb
ing season is at its height, and the
sheep. shorn and without shelter. have
oeen turned back onto the range. These
sheep are In no condition TO Withstand
the cold ana wet, and 1t Is asserted that
the losses will be heavy.
With native cattle, It is not Thought
that the storm will cause any losNes bnt
with cattle shipped in from Texas and
othen southern sections, II ia he.
lieved that many will be chilled
TO death on account OF NOT bav,ro
become acclimated.
"hiie clearing weather is reported at
many western Nebraska points. esna-
eiaily in the southern half of the state
snow continues to fall in the northwest
FOR instance at Alliance, the Bu,iipo-
ton agent reported rain all Tuesday, II
turned into snow during the night and
covered the ground to a depth OF ton
lnches, and the storm continued unabated
AZ ELLSWORTH, the fourth station ON tho
Burlington, east OF Alliance. at 10 o.cIocl
In the morning, snow covered the rroup,,
10 a depth of twelve inches and A. x,os
sun showing. The agent at this point re-
ported practically the same condIt,ons
maintaining as far east as Broken Row
west into Wyoming and south through
the western tier OF Nebraska counties
down into Colorado and Kansas.
AT Akron, Colo, according to the H,,r-
inston report, there was a foot OF spov,
with ten inches at Akron and two to six
Inches as far south as Herndon and Nc
Donald Kan
The Union Pacific reported six 20
twelve inches OF snow all the way across
the country from Grand Island n
HaWlins. Wyo., with a rainfall OF from,
one to three inches over its /. 200 miies ~
road in Kansas
Along the Northwestern renorts 20
headquarters showed four to six inches
OF snow over the entire system from !
Long Pine. Neb.. to Lander. wvo.. ~
generally having been preceded by a
neaVy rain of twelve to fifteen bours' /
duration. Through the southern portiop
OF South Dakota similar conditions p,a,,,-
famed with much heavier snow IN the
Black Hills and over the country 70 The
north. ~ '"e
Heavy Rains I'm Dakota.
SIOUX FALLS, s. d., Nav 1e-fsno-
cal am)-Heayy rains, which an !
pear to be general throughout South Da- |
kots' clear into the Hills region. com |
menced falling today and are continuing |
tonight. with the prospect Of not abatine |
before tomorrow.
No Frost at Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE, Neb. May 1s.-(speeiaI
relegrann.)-Two inches and a hair m |
rain has fallen here in two DAYS. Tenn /
perature has fallen. but there has been |
no snow or frost.