Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-12-31
GOregonian.

lOfeBOQlhn.
The situation at 10 o'clock last night
was AZ follows: The crowd of shovel
ers working east from Portland reached
q point one mile above Multnomah
Falls, leaving, Of course, clear track
bshiud them. The gang which was
with the SNOW pillow, now disabled,
working farthest west, reaching q point
two miles above Oneonta. This leaves
three miles between them and the Port
land forces, and these are the three
heaviest miles on the road. The snow
is drifted from fifteen to fifty feet deep,
and cannot be shoveled out short of two
and a half or three days. The new
snsV pillow from The Dalles did not get
past Hood River Saturday, bat only TO
q point one mile east. It reached Hood
River yesterday. The next SNOW plow
10 one mile east Of Wysth. The next
reached Bonneville last night, turned
around, and will start back mp the road
today. Between Bonneville and the
thirty nfth mile post two miles above
Oneonta) the track 10 nearly clear, so
that but little work will be required.
From Hood River to viento (ssven
miles) the snow 10 very deep in places,
and at least two days will be required 10
clear 10. This stretch, and the three
miles around Oneonta, constitute the
blockadea. The estimated time for
clearing the read 10 based on the suppo-
sition that the storm will not be re-
newcd. The snow bound train 10 on the
side track at viento, and provisions are
brought in regularly from Hood River
and the Cascade Looks.
The Northern Pacific snew pillow did
not leave Wallula junction yesterday
Il waited for large force Of men frou
Yakima, in order 10 be prepared TO Gel
through 10 The Daiies, In case the SNOW
in places might prove too much fer the
plsw. 10 viil leave today.
Mr.. A. LeGrsnd, the Wholesale liquol
dealer, who was in the snow bound
train, arrived here Saturday. having lef
the train Tuesday morning. He said d
an Oregoaian reporter that there VA
some alarm among passengers for ths
first two days after the train stuck. mo-
over the fact that they suffered from
lack Of food. but the doubs about Oh
tanning Supplies IN failure. With moth
ing else to think about. and having ~
occupation 20 dwarf their minds fron
their stomachs. Q few Of nervous tenn
permanent we're load In ocnsure OF th'
company. They argued that Il vaa
shortsiehsed 10 ssnd q train out fror'
The Dslles without q good supply o
provisions, knowing that there Vas n
ancortainsv about getting through. An
other poins raised vas that telegraph
operator Who started With the train go
OF at Heed river. II be bad RENAME.
and opened an Office on the train, III
passenQses ooaid have heard hours d
advance that Q relief party With foo'
had started, and their fears thu
qnieted.
The ms josity Of nsls rassenees Vet
| inclined 20 make the best Of The Gitua
tiou, and fels assured Of aid. IL Is "
possibls for aid TO reach them. All q
| passancsrs we're anxious 20 leave In
Dalles: none were 90 led 10 90, and Cd
oflosrs Of shs 90 1pzny knew a. titfi
an Gid the passengers that the storE
would last ten days. some bad grow
morbid over the sitaation, and sup
posed that the citixsns Of Hood Rive
had voluntarily brought In the sur
plies, and did not know thai the NE
vsre hired by the company.
4 Mr.. LIE Grand desired the reporter
inquire into III truth of report vkic
be and other passengers beard st d
Cascade Locks, viz: that wksn Q relil
party vas orRanized 81 the locks an
vas ready 20 starr. the company 81
orders not to 90. Mr.. @. ". Johnsol
! assissans superintendent OF raiivs
! division, says. In answer 20 this. tn
| nothing could BE- farther from q
! truth. Tsseerams we're sent 30 Cover
J meat sfscials at the locks. without
m0.rs us's delay, appealing 30 thsm
secure voinnssers 10 carry IN food. a.
Offering 10 pay any pfiss demanded G
ne sssvioa, 10 matter how high