Arizona republican., 1918-01-12

ter to neighbors who have been de- pnding upon gas for fuel. A shortage of coal there served to increase ap- prehension.
 or Benefit to Wheat Although the wheat growers of the state welcomed the snow which broke the drought, many fields were said to have been blown bare, while in the western section of the state livestock is suffering severely.
 The storm was the worst Oklahoma City has experienced in 15 years and the city was facing increased privation and hardship because of the virtual exhaustion of the retail coal supply and gas service inadequate for cooking or heating.
 Trains are behind schedule through out the southwest.
 Four lives were lost and great dam age done to the growing vegetables and orchards of Texas in a storm that blanketed the northern section of the state with six inches of snow. Mission, Texas, in the Rio Grande valley got snow for the first time in forty years and Laredo, on the Mexican border, for the first time in q years. Below zero marks were reached by the mer- cury all over the Panhandle district and at Brownsville, in the extreme southern part of the state, tempera- ture of 25 degrees caused fears for the safety of the cabbage crop and other vegetables. The snow will relieve the drought in the wheat growing sections, but in the western part, where the drought was most severe, there is ap- prehension for the stock already in a weakened condition on many ranges. Two teamsters in the Burnett oil field near Wichita Falls cannot be found and are believed to have per- lSned in the storm. An unidentified man found near Wichita Falls is ex- pected to die. An unidentified man was | frozen to death near Fort Worth. Chicago Is Storm Bound | CHICAGO. Jan. 11.-With the sec ond big snow of the week burying Chi | cago and a sub-Zero cold wave sweep l ing toward the city on a 40-mile gale, | Chicago again faced a famine of fuel and food.
 From New Orleans to Lake Super for and west to Texas all sections of the southwest and northwest are feel ing the same storm. At Galveston, Tex, snow is falling and in the Texas Panhandle the thermometer is below zero.
 At Devils Lake. \. D.. it was g de- grees below zero; at Omaha g below; at O'Neill, Neb., 37 below and up in Canada, in Saskatchewan, it is 42 de- grees below. A maximum of five be- low zero is predicted for Chicago to- night.
 Six inches of snow is reported in northern Texas and Oklahoma and nine inches in Kansas. A temperature Of 22 degrees was reported in Corpus Christi, Texas. According to weather bureau officials the storm is expected to follow the eastern line of the Appa- lachians and reach the St. Lawrence valley by Saturday or Sunday.
 With virtually the entire wheat and oats belt of the country blanketed by snow. grain experts predicted great benefit to crops. The snow, it was said, would not only form protective covering and provide moisture for winter wheat but it would also soften the ground to an ideal condition foI spring wheat planting.
 Railways in Trouble
 Railroads reported much trouble with the drifts, passenger service from the west and north being from four to five hours late
 The only loss of life so far reported is from Wichita, Falls, Texas, where three oil field workers are said to have become lost and it is feared perisheC in the blizzard.
 In Chicago thousands of street de- partment laborers, hundreds of higE school, college and university students and public school children Wielded the shovel in desperate effort to clear the streets before the situation became 2 menace to the welfare of the public.
 A warning to open streets stil blocked by last Sundays storm anC prevent any new congestion came iron the offlce of Fuel Administrator R. F Durham, woh declared that in case O. a severe and long cold wave. the pub. lc would get coal only if the street. were cleared. He reported normal sun. plies of fuel on hand.
 Is Still Snowinq
 At midnight, with snow still faIIinf in Chicago and with ten degrees below zero predicted for tomorrow, surfac, and elevated traffic came to an almos dead stop. Where blows were able tt Keep the surface lines clear, ice in tn, switches made their operation impos slbie without constant thaWing.
 Prostration of the railways was eve1 more complete. The Pennsvlvania Chicago and Alton and the Burlington cancelled all outgoing trains Tn Chicago, Milwaukee and St, Paul an nounced that it would only attempt f, move one train north tonight. Incom ing trans were from three to ten hour late.
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