“MOUNTAINOUS columns of powdered soil again smothered Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado, burying wheat fields, pastures, fences and farm machinery. At first there were 12 consecutive days of howling gales and blinding dust, and then a lull for three days, but to-
day a new storm blanketed the area, which has not yet recovered from the former desolation, when ten people lost their lives and property damages ran into millions of dollars. A ROARING MENACE The phenomenon has become a roaring menace to residents’ existence, and is rapidly erasing the slight means of subsistence they had salvaged from four successive years of extreme drought.”
