The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-01
BLANKET OF SNOW

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delay was due to engine trouble and
n9t the @now storm. officials said to-
day
Trains From Southwest Late.
Rock Island trains from the Pan
handle country, however, are badly
hit No. 4, the Golden Stale Limited,
due at Topeka at $40 O'Clock i'll the
afternoon, did not reach here until
nearly 4 O'clock this morning. twelve
hours late. No. ?, due to arrive here
at $40 o'clock this morning, Is re-
ported to be fourteen hours late.
Rock Island trains from the south are
running nearly on time.
The Santa re. has also had trouble
in getting its trains thru the storm in
the southwest but at noon today 1t
was announced that the service was
back to normal as all trains for. this
afternoon and tonight were reported
on time. Train No. 10. from CalifoF-
MIA. due to arrive at Topeka at 2:40
Tuesday afternoon, Was nearly seven
due at 4:50, O'Clock, was two hours
late. Trains from the west this morn
ing were about an hour late.
Six Inches of Snow.
Arkansas City, Kan, March l.
With temperature at II above this
has been raging in this section of
Kansas and northern Oklahoma for
the past two days has abated. tho
there is still a stiff bfeeze from the
east. Rural lines cannot be reached
in this section by the mail carriers
until the roads have been dragged
and the great drifts OF snow taken
from the highway. the county engi-
neer has issued an order for all road
overseers TO drag the roads as soon as
possible over six inches of snow on
the ground, If il was on the level.
This is by far the worst storm of the
present season in southern Kansas.
Railroad traffic is not hampered a
great deal.
Coolest Weather of Season.
Dallas, Tex. March THE coolest
weather Of the winter is being expert
enced thruout the entire state of Tex
as snow has fallen for several days
in the Panhandle section and freez-
Ing weather as far south as the Rio
Grande valley and Gulf of Mexico.
Much suffering is reported from cat
ne raising sections and early vegeta-
pie ana fruit crops will show great
Heavy Snow in Missouri.
Sedalia. No. March The snow
in central Missouri was eight inches
deep today, The mercury climbed 1 5
zero last night.
Roads Are impossible.
Salina, Kan.s March Snow which
began falling at 10 O'clock Monday
morning ceased this morning. Roads
are drifted badly and some are i'm
passable. The temperature this morn-
ing was 5 above zero.
Trains Delayed at Hutchinson
& Hutchinson. KAN, March 1.-The
steady snowfall of the past forty-eight
hours was at an end today Traffic
.on some streets was impossible owing
to drifts. Train schedules from the
west were hadly delayed. TempeFa-
lures were near the zero mark last
night.
Coolest March In Thirty Years.
Houston, Tex, March with the
uncommon scene of icicles resulting
from the slow rain freezing as it falls,
Houston and the Gulf coast expert
enced today the coolest March weather
In thirty years. The official Their
nometer registered 29.5- Thousand
larly in the Rio GFande valley, Was-cer-
tain, according to weather officials.
The temperature was the lowest since
December IS, 1920, when rs degrees
was reached. The cold wave extended
all the way to Brownsville. Vegetab BILE
crops. which had an early start on the
prevailing warm weather, will be hit
hard A SIN colder waveis scheduled
for Dallas tonight, according to the 10
cal weather bureav. The prediction is
that the temperature will drop from
IL to is degrees. by far the coolest
spell Dallas has had in several years.
worm MIt1OnS 10 oklahoma.
Oklahoma City. March 1.-Unto1d
millions in value is attributed to yes
terday's snowstorTn by meteorologist
experts in tire state weather bureau
here today The state is virtually I'M
der a blanket of an average of two
inches of snow with slight flurries still
continuing this morning. Snow drifted
in the streets so badly yesterday and
last night that street car service on
several lines was curtailed. but normal
tran -f~nNf -
sumed by night.
Blizzard in Texas.
San Angelo, Tex, March Follows
ing the worst blizzard since November,
1919, March came in like a lion in
west Texas today. The ground was
glazed with sleet and snow and live
Stock particularly sheared goats and
poor cattle, suffered losses. Tempera-
lures last night were down to 10 de-
grees above zero, the coolest mark
since January IL. 1915 A light snow
was falling this morning and high
winds from the north continued.