The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-08-12
The. Daily Leader.
paper Of the City, County, Ter
ritory and United States,
FIRE IN THE SNOWSHEDS.
A Large Section of the Central Pacific
Company's Snowsheds Burned-Engines
and Cars DestrOyed-Repairing DAM

| A Large Section OF the Central Pacific
Company's Sn0wsheds Burned-Engines
and Cars Destroyed-Repairing DAM
| ages.
The railroad company during the past
few days has been singularly un-
fortunate in its losses by fire.
| Monday morning the fire at Marys-
Vile occurred; Tuesday afternoon the
snowsheds, two and half miles east of
Emigrant Gap, caught fire and were
destroyed for 300 feet, together with
the track; and yesterday afternoon an
other snowshed fire occurred about five
miles east of Cisco, lasting an hour and
half and destroying l 500 feet of she'd
| ding, two locomotives and three loaded
cars. The debris of Tuesdays fire, east
of Emigrant Gap, was cleared away
and new track constructed in season
for trains to pass about noon yesterday,
and they were thereupon pushed for
ward as rapidly as possible. The over
land express and the Virginia City
express, west bound, arrived here con-
solidated at 4:5O yesterday afternoon;
the overland express which left here
Tuesday afternoon got through to
Truckee fifteen hours late, and the Vir-
ginia City train which left Sacramento
Tuesday night, reached Truckee
twelve hours behind time. Everything
had got into good working order yester-
day afternoon, when about half past 2
another fire alarm was sent in, and it
was learned that the confiagration was
just east of Tunnel No. 5, about five
miles east of Cisco and between Tama-
rack and Cascade. Freight train No. Z,
which left Sacramento Tuesday night
going east, had passed through the
tunnel, and at curve few miles fur
ther on entered cut and suddenly ran
into blazing snowshed. If they had
been going down hill, instead of ascend
ing, the greater portion of the train
would have been piled up, as the head
engine, probable in consequence of its
reaching some warped iron, jumped
from the track and fell over upon its
side, and both engines-the train hav-
ing two attached to it, as usual, on the
hill-and three loaded cars were burned.
The other cars, numbering fifteen, were
cut loose and saved. ]. w. Hurlbut,
one of the engineers, was very seriously
burned about the face and hands.
Schott, his fireman, and Henry Mayo,
this city, were also considerably burned,
but not quite so severely. They were
placed on a special train and brought
to the Railroad Hospital, arriving here
about l O'Clock this morning. Robert
FObeS went up from tho hasr>itol on
laori..ey rsf +ha accidant. met them at
Alta, and attended them on their way
down. The same train also brought
to the hospital John Edwards, tele-
graph line repairer, who, while repair
ing the damage done by Tuesdays fire,
fell from pole yesterday morning and
was dangerously wounded. AS soon as
possible after the information of the
fire was received, wrecking train was
dispatched from San Francisco and
another from Truckee to the scene of
the trouble, together with quantity
of such material as would be necessary
in repairing the damages to the track,
but before these trains started the fire
was being attacked on one side by fire
train from Blue Canon and on the other
side by tram from the Summit. Mas
ter car-builder Welch and Master Me-
chanic Cooley went up on the wrecking
train from this city, and Train Dis
patcher Foblin, who was at the Summit,
was quickly on hand to attend to his
branch of the business. An eXamina-
tion of the nettings of the engines
which passed through the shed last be-
fore the fire was discovered has been
made, and they were found to he all
right. [Sacramento Record.