St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-22
RAISING THE SNOW BLOCKADE
Thousands of shoveiers at Work
in the Sierras Digging Out

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.-The pros
poets are that the great snow blockade
on the Central Pacific will be cleared
tonight or tomorrow to the delight of
the snow-bOund passengers. Clear
weather is reported at all stations from
Rocklin to TrucKee, save at COlfaX and
Cisco, where the weather is still cloudy.
At eacn of these places one inch of
snow fell last night. There is now
three feet of snow on the ground at
CoIfaX. while at Cisco the country is
covered to depth of over fifteen feet
on the level and in the drifts the snow
is three or four times as deep. Last
enabled to open the road in
the Sierras To the five dead
engines near Champions spur. The ro-
tary plOw was pushed by eleven en-
gineS, and the snow was thrown fifty
feet on either side of the track. One
hundred and fifty snow shovelers, who
were engaged in digging trench, were
surprised and completely buried by the
snow from the plow. They were badly
scared, but the only injury sustained
was ducking. Five engines and piows
were taken OH to Truckee. and the way
is clear to Tunnel 13, with the exception
yOn side. They have finished to the
Cascade, where the rotary is again at
work, and it is said by the railroad Off
cials that the road will he open, possi-
bly, tonight. East of Truckee a pIew
with sufficient power to back it will
plow to Reno.
HEAVY SLIDES AND DRIFTS
are reported between Truckee and
Boca. A rotary plowg is clearing the
road to Blue Canyon, and during the
night it is expected to clear the track to
tine two imprisoned passenger trains be-
tween Blue Canyon and Alta. None of
the weight of snow in places is meal
culable. The average depth of the
snow along the sheds is twenty feet.
over LOCO snow shovelerS and wOrkmen
ale on the mountains tonight. Truckee
is cut off from all communication with
the outside world, but this is true of all
mining and other towns in the SIerras.
A passenger named T. A. Lanford died
OF pneumonia, superlnduced by an at
tack of la grippe, and was buried by
the men on snow shoes at Truckeo
Yesterday, 1t being impossible to break
the road to the cemetery. Jacob
DuntZ, a snow shoveler, was killed at
Colfax yesterday by being struck by
car. Most of the passengers i'll the two
trains near Blue Canyon are well pro-
vided for. There are a few second-
class passengers who had only enough
money to buy tickets and did not figure
on the blockade. Neither had they
prepared for the cold weather that COM
meiced when the storm ceased. Among
the Eastern passengers on the impris-
oned trains are the following; E. j.
Dalber, Pocotella, ILL.,; j. G. Franger
and family, William hewitt. Bozeman,
Mont; Miss Hannah Dee, Ogden; John
II. Shaw and family. McKeesport. Pa;
c. E. Waugh, Denver: Oliver ID. Ri Ter,
Rochester; E. P. Roberts. Maple Park,
ILL.,; w. H. C. Hattie, Hay City; James
Doyle, Omaha; c.. E. Weir, Chicago;
s. Bernstein, New York; Miss
j. S. Brendall, Galena, ILL.,; j. D. Ma
son, Denver; f. D. Bose, Kansas; Miss
Bader, New Hampshire: FL. G.. Cole
man, Morristown, Pa. At Dutch Flat
on the western slope of the Sierras
there are seven feet of snow on the
level, or two feet more than ever before
recorded. The wagon roads and bitches
are blocked. Many houses have been