The Penn's Grove record., 1889-11-16
THE SNOW IN NEW MEXICO.
RAILROAD CUTS AGAIN FILLED AND
TRAINS STOPPED.
SUCH A STORM NEVER KNOWN BE
FORE IN SOUTHERN COLORADO
OR NEW MExICo--26. 600 HEAD
OF SHEEP Persisted.

- SAE W
OF SHEEP persisted.
TRINIDAD, Col, Nov. 12.-VarIous
parties who spent ten days in thu
snow blockade, between Emory Gal
and Folsom, N. M, arrived in this cit,
yesterday. They report the suffering to
man and animal fully as great as shown
10 former reports. Patrick Casey. en-
gineer, spent eleven days In making
the run from Trinidad to Lexiine
and return. For two days and
nights he was without food. One
meal he made on a jack rabbit
caught In the snow. Seventy
five men shoveling snow at Monnt
Dora were cut of from food for two
days and nights. They got some sheer
out of the SNOW drifts and roasted and
ate them. A delayed passenger train
was cut OF from the eating stations for
three days. They drew on the express
company for food supplies. The labor
ers who shoyeIIed snow, when hungry.
tapped the freight cars, containing
canned goods, with an iron chisel or
other tools. A hungry man would knock
a hoe in q q OF cor or tomatoes,
and then drink the can empty. Some
times this raw food was frozen, but 1t
went, among men so hungry. Two
live goats VI re- being shipped in a ca
boose, but the hungry men cut their
throats and ate them raw. The report
says that . sick man, travelling with
two children. lay on his back two days
helpless. He had only crackers for
nourishment. A sheep grower near
Ute creek, q Mr.. Garcis, is reported to
have lost 5000 sheep from q flock of
5000. ffNReer Lyon said that he saw
more re- 80 INTUITION during ten days
in this snow blockade than in all his
life before. The road was opened
with rotary snow plOws, but
remained open only q few honrs.
Yesterday mornings snow and wind
blocked the cuts again and the passen-
ger train due here from the South this
forenoon Is stuck in the snow. Alto
gether the blizzard has been a terrible
one. None OF US YER saw or heard OF
such q one in Southern Colorado or
New Mexico. 1t was 8 Dakota storm
that got of its range and struck an I'M
~suspecting people.
President Morgan Jones, OF the
Fort Worth Road, was himself a pas
senger from the scene Of the blockade.
CLAYTON, N. NJ. Nov. 12.-Tid-
ings from small towns and ranches of
the railroad confirm the reported loss
OF life and property during the late
storm. From Trrmperas ZONES the
news that three Mexican herders per
ished on the second day of the storm.
Lujan Brothers. living on the Seneca.
lost one herder.
A man, name unknown, herding
horses In the Rafel district, and two
other men, left their horses and started
for q place of shelter. Becoming numb
he fell and persisted. His companions
were too much exhausted to help him.
The total loss Of life, SO far as reported,
number nine. Several more are miss
ing, and their friends arr anxlously
searching for them.
The loss Of sheep, In and around
this place alone is 26, 200 head, and
several large herds on the Ute creek
have not yet been heard from. The loss
In cattle will not be as heavy as at first
supposed, unless the cold weather con-
tinues. Snow began falling again yester.
day and continued last night. About
eight inches Of new snow OH tip OF the
twenty inches already On the ground
makes 1t impossible for the railroad
folks to keep the trail clear. They
succeeded In getting trains through
yesterday, but are all showed mp again,
and the cold is intense. being almost to
zero,