Evening star., 1949-02-15
New Billiards DISRUPT
Travel in Two States;;
Flood Danger Rises
BY the Assoeiofed Press

~ ms ASSoSi01eo FfeSS
81 New blizzards put a virtual
halt to road travel in South
'ern Wyoming and Southern
idaho today as flood dangers
mounted in the storm areas of
Nebraska.
, Winds diminished and tempera-
lures moderated over the North
-ern Plains States. giving new hope
to relief workers that digging op-
erations will not be further ham
9ered.
g In Washington State, fresh falls
spf snow blocked Snoqualmie and
sBlewett Passes in the Cascade
sMountains and state motor
Gravel was halted. Snoqualmie
Pass, the States major east-west
highway, had been open only two
@rays when a new blizzard blocked
T yesterday. Trains moved with
Iif1culty across the Cascades.
= Livestock Losses Estimated.
= Meanwhile, an Agriculture De-
bartment report indicated that
Eattle losses would not be nearly
as severe as first feared.
4 The department reported 49,
boo sheep and cattle died in bliz-
:Sards in four Western States up
20 February /. The department
s4aid additional losses are expected
an the area surveyed-Colorado,
wyoming, South Dakota and Ne
3raska-because of the continuing
Eebruary storms.
E Shortly after the report was dis
Hlosed, Senator LANCER, Repub-
Iican, of North Dakota introduced
q bill proposing a $150.000, 900
sIund to be used in reimbursings
Western stockmen. The report
s1tsted the loss of $1,000 cattle and
D7. 900 sheep and lambs. The cat
gtle losses were about 2 per cent of
s1he number in the four States on
January l and the sheep deaths a
Etttle over per cent.
e But in Wyoming, Russell Thorp,
mead of the States emergency re-
LIEF board. said "the plight of
1tvestock throughout Wyoming is
Tdaily becoming more desperate"
8 Railroads Blocked Again.
: Gales which swirled huge piles
ssof snow in the area around
rawlings. Wyo.. center Of the
storm area. were worse yes
@terday than last weeks wind
sstorms. The Union Pacific Rail-
sroad's double line of tracks again
were blocked.
; The main line of the Great
Northern Railroad in the Cas-
scades, blocked by a 300-foot snow
zslide. was cleared last night. A
section hand believed caught in
the fall was reported missing.
A blizzard which swept over
Boise, Idaho, was the heaviest
local storm in II years. the
Weather Bureau said. Six inches
Of snow fell in seven hours last
night. Snow was forecast for
Northwestern Utah. ..@ y.
. Dust storms and dust drifts
were reported at Scottsbluff,
Nebr., across the Wyoming line.
Visibility at times was reduced toI
a few yards. x:s5*ss:ss,s,1:ss
Temperatures Higher. r
There were only a few scattered
reports of subzero temperatures in
the storm belt today-in the high
points in Utah and Nevada. These
included Roosevelt, Utah. -12 and
Ely, New, -6. The only other
.below-zero area was in Northern
Maine.
Nebraska, which has been fight
ing snow storms for more than
six weeks. had food worries. New
falls of snow in the southeastern
section of the State increased
food dangers. But the most seri-
Gus danger, the Geological Survey
at Lincoln said. lies in the Elkhorn
River basin which stretches into
Northeast Nebraska and through
some of the worst of the blizzard
areas.
The survey said that in the
Missouri basin as whole, only a
very gradual change from winter
10 spring could avert serious floods
IN the areas covered with noun
famous snow drifts.
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