Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-11-08
NEW MEXICO WEATHER.
A Blizzard of Eight Days
Duration.
THE STORMS TERRIBLE RAyAGEs.
Great Loss of Live Stock and Human
Life-Trains Snowbound
For Days.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

+ Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
DENVER, November The Repub-
ican's special from Clayton, N. H.
says: Unless the snowstorm which has
been raging for eight days comes to an
end soon, next summer will show
country covered with the dead bodies Of
animals as thickly as was the old Santa
Fe trail in the sixties. The depth Of
snow is now not less than twepty-six
inches on the level, and in many places
it is drifted seven feet high. When the
storm struck this section, seven large
herds of cattle, numbering from 400 to
1000 each, were being held near this
place awaiting shipment to eastern mar
kets. The rain of week ago Wednes-
day was followed Thursday morning by
billiards, snow and sleet, which sent
the herds in southerly direction. Il.
vain did the already balffrozen cowboys
try to check the march of the herds, but
on they went through the increasing
storm, until, finding it utterly impossible
to hold the cattle, the boys rode aside
and let them pass, and, nearly dead,
rode their exhausted horses into the
cafions or partially sheltered placeH,
where they passed many hours of misery
without food or fire.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES OF COWBOYS.
Two cowboys drifted into a canon
| where they found q cedar tree with a
rats nest in it. They managed to light
fire with this. During the second night
one of their horses died from the cold,
and having nothing to eat, the men cut
pieces of flesh from the dead animal,
which they warmed and ate without salt.
After remaining there sixty hours they
started out, and after much suffering
and hardship from their weakened con-
dition, managed to reach a ranch thirty
miles away, where they were cared for.
Five cowmen are known to have been
frozen to death. They are Henry Miller,
John Martin, Charles jolly and two un-
known. Two Mexican sh eep-herders
have been found frozen to death, one
near Tramperos and another on 4 small
creek near town.
CATTLE AND SHEEP LOST BY THOUSANDS,
Two men coming in this morning re-
ported drifts in some places seven and
eight feet high, in which are hundreds of
dead stock, many with only their heads
and horns above the snow. In one drift
thirteen were counted and in another
/ ten. Some Of these were alive, but un-
able to move from their frigid prison.
Herds of sheep are com pletely wiped
out of existence, and the range for thirty
miles from town is covered with their
dead carcasses. 1t is estimated that
10000 sheep have persisted in this part
Of the Territory, and at present it is i'm
possible to estimate the number of cattle
lost, but it will probably be in the thou
sands.
Every place Of shelter in town is being
used as barns for SNOW bound horses.
The hay supply is nearly exhausted, and
today 500 per ton was offered by stock
men and it was refused.
IMPRISONED PASSENGERS.
| AT Texline, nine miles belo'r CIsvtou
two passenger trains have been snow.
bound for week. %Tneir provisions are
running out and the passengers are com.
ipelled to venture out into the storm to
kill cattle, the quarters of which are
taken into the cars and roasted. 1t il
thought the snowplows will reach the i'm
prisoned trains tomorrow and release
them, and that the road will be opened
in day or two.
The storm is, by far, the worst known
in New Mexico, and the exact loss of life
and property cannot at present be esti
uated