Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-25
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW!


Railroads BIockaded = Locomotives
mud Cars Buried I'm n SNOW
Travel suspended No Mails
wager Roads Impossible A
Furious snow Storm Still Rag.
Ing.
The furious storm of wind and snow
that commenced here on Friday last
has continued east and west with I'M
abated fury, and at present writing the
railroads are impossible. On the Cen
trail Pacific, the road from the Summit
to Truckee is covered to such an ex-
tent with the drifted snow that the
snow plough which was at work fell in
the power of the storm fiend and was
itself showed in. On the Union Pa
cific road the track is blockaded at in
tervals from Cheyenne to Ogden, n
it seems that but little effort is being
made there to put the road in running
order. Passenger trains. freight cars
and locomotives are al the various sta
tons waiting an abatement OF the
storm. The storm exceeds in fury any
| that has visited this portion of the
| country for years.
Owing to the blockade, no train left
| Palisade yesterday for Eureka and
none will leave this morning for Pail
SADIE. as no connection can be made
| with trains on the through routes. No
| Eastern mail arrived yesterday and
none from any point will arrive to-day,
and should a break not occur in the
| weather it will be some days before
| any mail can reach town.
Our local road, between Ruby Hill
and town, comes in for its share of
misfortune. The locomotive yentured
u trip to the mines on Sunday, but is
now buried deep in h snow in a cut,
the smoke-stack being barely visible.
The engineer visited the engine yester-
day, and succeeded in getting the wa
ter out of the boiler, but found it i'm
possible to move it, as the snow drift
ed in more rapidly than it could he
shoveled away. The stage due here
Saturday night from Hamilton did not
arrive until IL o'clock Yesterday morn
ing. 1t did not leave Hamilton on Sat
urtiay owing to the storm, out started
the following day. The driver reports
the snow . unfatlIomable" and only
succee led in reaching town by leaving
the road and tracking" along the
sides of the mountains.
on tie road between here and the
Pinto Summit, a number OF freight
wagons have been Abandoned. and are
now entirely covered with snow. The
drivers yesterday e~ndeavored to make
another start. but their efforts were un-
successful, and they had 10 bring their
cams back to town.
The Hamilton stage will start out
sometime this morning II endeavor
to reach that place. hut it seems more
than probable that the driver will be
forced To turn back, unable to max
the trip.
Although, during the prevalence
of the storm but little snow has
fallen in town. the high wind that
has held fell SWAY has blown the pre-
viously-falIen snow in huge drifts so
that travel is continued with great diff
ticulties, and IL is almost impossible to
even reach RUBY Hill. and the roads
leading TO all other mines are inipassa-
BILE. 1t is exported that the blockade
on the Central Pacific Railroad will he
tie raised in a day or so, hut il can not
be stated with any certainty when
travel can be resumed on tho Union
Pacific, as the full extent OF the block
ade has not, AZ yet been ascertained.
Up to the hour OF our going to press
there seems to be no signs of al a Iate-
ment of the storm.