The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-05-04
NOT MUCH DAMAGE DONE
i TO FRUIT BY The FROST

A storm of unusual seye ity visited
central, soGtheIn and eastern Colo
rado last Saturday nisht and result
ed in heavy dana in many seetiOns.
The storm exte lded north nea.ly TO
Denver. east 10 the state line and
south to Walsenburg and beyond, b t
appears to have ragged with grea est
force along the Continental divide
and over st ip of territory exter NJ
fifty or sixty miles vide to the east
ward.
A gentle rain began falling in the
Canon City district shortly after noon
Saturday and continued until about
O'Clock when it turned to snow and
couple of hours later the landscape
was white with the precipitation. The
temperature was above the freez-
ing point and the snow, which
was of damp. c,inging character, fel
without interruption all of the follow
ing night. The fruit and shade trees
being in partial LEAKAGE wee unable
to sustain the weight of the snowfall
and many of their branches gave
way under the burden and fell crash
ing to the ground. In the orchards
the cherry trees suffered most and
hundreds of them were broken down.
Apple trees as a rule were not serious.
ly injured. OF the shade trees along
the streets the cottonwoods and scft
naples sustained the greatest damage
and Sunday morning the sidewalks
were in many places blockaded by the
wreckage of fallen branches.
Street Commissioner Tom Parker
and gang of men were at work early
Sunday morning clearing the brush
from the sidewalks in order that peo-
pie going to Sunday school and church
might meet with no distractions on
the way. In some cases branch
of trees FIVE or six inches n diameter
were broken off as if they we're mere
twigs and lay in a tumble n the street
and on the sidewalk. Mr.. Parker
estimates that three or four hundred
wagon loads of brUsh will have to be
hauled off to the dumping ground he
fore the streets are cleared. A gang
of men were put to work this morning
carting the wreckage away and are
likely to be employed on the job the
greater part of the week. Some sec
tions of the city suffered more than
others, although eyeryv here through.
out the CON nm'n'ty is seen the devas-
fatiou causad Iv I,a ct
At O'Clock Sunday morning about
eight inches of wet, heavy snow lay
on the ground in Canon City, and, in
some places in the surrounding terri
tory it was considerably deeper.
There was twelve or fourteen inches
of snow al the Royal Gorge mine and
twice as much along the crest Of the
Greenhorn mountains. The snow was
accompanied by light rainfall and
the former was dipping with moisture
as it clung to the trees. Had the snow
been cold and crisp so as to lay light
ly on the ground is depth SunSay
morning could hardly have been less
than eighteen inches.
The electric light and telephone COM
panies were both put out of business
in consequence of the breakage OF
their wires, although the former was
not so hard hit as the latter. The
transmission Ines of the power com
pany to the Cripple Creek district
were not interfered with and that
branch of its service was not interrupt
ed by the storm. The lines to Flor
ence and the coal camps. however.
we're broken and they were cut off
from their electric light current Sun
day night. The line to Concrete was
temporarily put out Of commission,
but repairs were made and the service
restored a few hours later. The lines
to Florence and the coal camps will
be in working condition again this af-
ternoon. The circuit TO the Royal
Gorge mine and the Empire Zinc