The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-12
A TERRIBLE STORM.
Latest News-The Snow-bounl Section in
New MeXico.

Latest News-The Snow bounI Section in
New Mexico.
TRINIDAD. Nov 1l.-Various parties who
spent ten days in the snow blockade
between Emery Gap and Folsom, New
Mexico arrived IN the city to day. They
report suffering to man and animals fully
as great as has been formerly reported.
Patrick Casey, an engineer, was eleven
days making the run from Trinidad to the
Texas line and return. Two days and
nights he was without food. One meal he
made on a jack rabbit caught in The snow.
Seventy-tive men shOvelling snow at
Mount Dora were cut off from food for two
days and nights. They got some sheep out
of the snow, roasted and ate them. A delayed
passenger train was cut off from eating
stations three days. They drew on the
express cars for its food supplies. The
laborers vino shoveliCd snow, when hungry
tapped the freight trans containing canned
goods with an iron chisel or other tools. A
hungry man would knock hole in can of
corn and tomatoes and then drink the can
empty. Sometimes this raw food was frozen
but it went, the men being SO hungry
Two live goats were being shipped in q
caboose and the hungry men cut their
throats and ate them raw. The report
says sick man trayelihgNYith two chill
dren lay on his back two days, helpless.
He had only crackers for hourishmeut A
sheep grower near Ute creek, near Garcia,
is reported to have lost 5000, sheep from a
flock of 5000. Engineer Lynn said that
he saw more real destitution during ten
days in this snow blockade than in all his
life before. The road was opened with a
rotary snow ploW, but remained open only
few hours. This morning the snow and
wind blocked the cuts again and the pas
senger train due here from. the south this
forenoon is stuck in the snow tonight,
Altogether the blizzard has been terrible
one, and none of US ever saw or heard of
such a one in southern Colorado or New
Mevico. 1t was Dakota storm that got off
its range, and struck an unsuspecting peo-
pie. President Morgan Jones, Of the Fort
Worth road, was himself passenger from
the scene of the blockade TODAY. The latest
report from Clayton, New Mexico, says:
Tidings from small towns and ranches OFF
the railroad confirm the reported loss OF
life and propeaty during the late storm.
From Tramperas comes the news that
three Mexican herders, George Pinard and
two companions, persisted the second day
of the storm. Lujan Pros, on the Seneca,
lost one herder, name unknown, herding
horses in the Rafael district for Mr..
Wright He and two other men left their
horses and started for place of shelter,
but becoming numb, fell and persisted. His
companions were too much exhausted to
help him. The total loss of life so far as
reported numbers nine souls. Several
more are missing. Their friends are
anxiously searching for them.
The loss of sheep in and around this place
alone is $4,000 head. Several large herds
on 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. The snow began falling again at
noon today, and continues to fall to night.
About eight inches of new snow on top of
the twenty inches already on the ground
make it impossible for railroad folks to
keen the track clear