The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-02-16
Storm Covered
A Wide Area
Northwestern States and Pacific
Coast Get Touch of Winter

A rlp-snOrting Old-time blizzard
struck this section of Montana last
Monday night and with a 40-mile
wind blowing kept it up for fully
twenty-four hours.
u Tuesdays storm was the worst ex
perienced here for some time, the
thermometer registering around 18 be
low all day and as low as 3S early
Wednesday morning.
All mail routes were put out of
commission Tuesday with the excep-
tion of Bill Hubing, made the trip
through to Brockway, with the Richey
: mail
Tuesdays GlendiVe maiI got In
Wednesday, also bringing Wednes-
days mail through in one day, and we
are again having daily service. The
Ford trucks are still being used on the
route.
The storm seems to have covered
a lot of country and following are a
few news dispatches covering the
storm:
San Francisco, Feb. 11.-Most of
the Pacific coast region had unseas-
enable weather today, with snow in
the northern states and as far south
as central California.
Mount Tamalpais, near San Fran
: cisco, received one of it's rare blan-
ketings of white and at Santa Cruz,
summer resort on the California coast
the Santa Cruz and Ben Lomond
ranges were covered with snow to
depth of several inches. A stream
of automobiles carried local residents
out to the scene to frolic in the snow.
= Many southern points reported rain
and the lowering clouds were said to
have averted what might have been
serious frost damage in the fruit belt.
West Oregon had snow, some of
which remained on the ground and
eastern Oregon had snow and rain
at several places.
Snow fell throughout the day in
western Washington and Idaho,
The Pudget Sound district WAS Wis ]
tied by one of the heaviest snow
storms of the winter. In Seattle the
weather bureau reported a fall of
four and one-half inches.
MlSSOuld, Il oU. hloOOul1 10 olOW
ly recovering tonight from raging
blizzard which reached its worst
about o'clock this morning Six
large plate glass windows in the bus
mess district were blown out power
wires were blown down and the city
was without electric power or light
for several hours early this morning.
Signs in the city were blown down
in many places, part of a skylight
in the court house was lifted off, the
roof was blown off the Northern Paci-
fic coal docks and other minor dam
age was done.
At six o'clock this evening", the
thermometer stood at zero, with the
prospect that it would go lower.
Drifts are piled high throughout the
city but traffic was restored to a
normal basis about noon. The public
schools were closed today, when it
was found impossible to keep the
buildings warm. Only fw children
had reported for classes.
Lewistown, Feb 13-The Milwau- t
kee passenger train from Lewistown E
leaving here Monday and which was t
started back to Lewistown from Har-
lowton yesterday afternoon, collided t
with rotary snow plow that had pre-
ceded it, The collision occurred about Q
s o'clock near Judith Gap. The pilots S
of both engines were broken off, one r
Of the engineers was somewhat in
jured, and several passengers were a
badly bruised, most of these being in II
the caboose. The company expcts to q
have the road completely open be- Q
tween here and Harlowton before h
noon tomorrow The trains are now d
all dug out of the snow except a
freight located near Oko. The last I
train in over the Harlowton branch Il
arrived Monday. S
Thirty-two below zero was regis
.ered here early yesterday morning, b
his being a low record for several il
years past The maximum tempera-
.ure for the day was 23 below zero.
At o'clock this evening it was 81 al
below, and at 10 o'clock the mercury al
lad risen half degree. with pros T
,ect of further slight rise. Warm gi
Spring creek was frozen over this
morning for the first time in 80 years, Sc
according to the local records. 1.
st. Paul, Feb. 13.-Heavy SHOWS q.
rifting before 40-mile gale from g..
he northwest paralyzed train service :.
n the northwestern states tonight. d.
All westbound trains ou of the Twin 5.
,ities on tn Great Northern, Northern 6.
'acific and Chicago, Milwaukee & st. st
'aul railroads early tonight were be-
ng held until the storm abates. East M
ound trains headed for the Twin Cit 10
IS were being at division points. PI
'ranch lines in many sections also Z.
vere tied up. ST.
Reports from Minnesota, North and
outh Dakota and parts of western 8.
told of the worst blizzard of
ne winter with temperatures well be- Oh
,w zero tonight or promised for to- Mi
lorrow WI
Wahpeton, Dakota. reported a loC
torn approaching cyclonic proper pr
ons School classes were dismissed we
lere today