Ray County, Missouri - Chicago Tribune transcription; January 26, 1967 This is a transcription of the newspaper articles. Chicago Tribune (IL) - January 26, 1967 Wintry Blast Strikes Rockies Governor Views Storm Damage in St. Louis (Pictures on back page) A winter storm lashed the southern and central Rockies yesterday with heavy snows that triggered snowslides and clogged high mountain passes. The wintry blast was expected to fan out onto the great plains by today and move eastward in roughly the same path as the tornadic storm system that killed seven persons and injured hundreds Tuesday. The new storm, coming from the rain-lashed Pacific coast, dropped up to 18 inches of snow in the Utah mountains and 14 inches on southwestern Colorado's high country. Mountain Pass Closed Slides closed Red mountain pass near Ouray, Colo., for several hours, and highway officials said traffic thru other passes might have to be stopped. Some Utah mountain areas had been buried under as much as 4 feet of snow in three days. St. Louis county officials sought federal disaster aid to ease the suffering caused Tuesday by a tornado that killed two children, injured 217 persons, and damaged or destroyed more than 1,200 homes in St. Louis suburbs. Twisters and vicious windstorms claimed five other victims a high school boy at Orrick, Mo., a bed-ridden man near Bath, Ill., a 3-year-old boy near Fort Madison, Ia., and a Chicago policeman. The devastating tornado which wrecked the Orrick, Mo., high school building Tuesday has claimed its second victim. Danny Blythe, 15, who suffered head injuries, died yesterday in a Richmond, Mo., hospital. Danny Gene Barber, 18, was killed in the main corridor, caught by a falling roof. Governor Tours Area Missouri Gov. Warren E. Hearnes surveyed the St. Louis area twister damage from a helicopter and issued an appeal to President Johnson to declare the county a disaster area. He asked the same for Ray county in western Missouri. Property loss in the area was expected to run into the millions of dollars. Authorities called the St. Louis damage "shocking." An estimated 200 homes were demolished; more than 1,000 others were damaged. Many business and some public buildings were wrecked or damaged. Electric power was knocked out in 75,000 homes, and 10,000 remained without power 12 hours after the twister, unobserved by weather bureau radar, struck the area. Snow in North Before it swept across the Great Lakes into Canada, the violent storm system dropped snow on northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan. Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., got 7 inches of snow, Houghton, Mich., got 5 inches, and Park Falls, Wis., got 3 inches. Southern California's second rainstorm in three days subsided early yesterday. It had flooded homes, touched off street-blocking mudslides and slowed traffic. A slide in the Hollywood hills took the life of Morris Yoblans, 52, a cab driver, when tons of mud tumbled down an incline, shoved the taxi off the road into a driveway and crushed him. Cold air pushed down from Canada and displaced springlike weather in the midwest. But unseasonably warm weather remained in the east. PHOTO CAPTION: Remains of the Walter Sarff farm residence at Chandlerville (Mason county), Ill., after home was struck by tornado Tuesday night. Sarff, 50, was killed when he was plucked from his bed and hurled 200 feet from the home. His wife and two sons were injured. Wreckage of trailer home of Glen Shepheard near Urbana lying in field about 100 feet from its original position after tornado-like winds struck area late Tuesday. Shepheard's wife was injured in the storm. Mrs. Richard Schambacher of Maryland Heights, Mo., telling Missouri Gov. Hearnes that her home was heavily damaged by tornado which swept thru community. PHOTO CREDIT: [AP Wirephoto] [UPI Telephoto] [AP Wirephoto] Chicago Tribune (IL) Date: January 26, 1967 Edition: Chicago Tribune Record Number: 19670126ob003 Copyright 1967, Chicago Tribune.[br]For permission to reprint, contact Chicago Tribune. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by County Coordinator USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or their legal representative, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------