The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-01-28
BROKEN AT LAST.
The Snow Blockade the Worst
That the West has Ever
Known.

caD rfdnclscO, Sdl January ZZ.-lh'
prospects are that the great Snow blockad,
on the Central Pacific will be cleared to
night or tomorrow, TO the delight of The
snow-bound passengers. Clear weather i,
reported at all stations from Rocklin e
lruckee. save at Coifax and Cisco, where
tn weather is still cloudy. At each oil
these places one inch If snow fell last
night. There is now three feet of snow on
the ground at Colfsx, while at Cisco the
country is covered 10 a depth of over fl
teen feet on the level, aud the drifts are
three or four times as deep. Last evening
the Central Pacific vas enabled to open the
road In the Sierras TO The FIVE dead engines
near Chspion's Spur. The rotary pillow
was pushed by eleven engines and
the suow was thrown fifteen feet
on either side of the track.
One Hundred and fifty snow shovelers, who
were engaged in a trench, were comp etely
bur,ei by suOw from the pillow. They
were badly scared but the only injury sus-
tanned was ducking. Five engines and
plows were taken To Truckee, and The way
is clear TO tunnel No Is, with the excep-
ton of a few minor DRIFTS on the Blue
Canyon side. They have passed to the
CASCADE. where the rotary is again at work
and il is said by the railroad officials Tn al
The road will be open possibly to night.
East Of Truckee pillow with sufficient
power to back j: will plow TO Reno. Heavy
slides and drifts are reported between
rruckee aud Bocs. A rotary pillow is
clearing a road TO Blue Canyon, and dur
ing TIE night ii is expected To clear the
track to the two imprisoned passenger
trains between Blue Canyon and Ana
None of ,he snow sheds have fallen. al
though the weight of snow in places is
incaiculabie. The average depth of the
snow along the sheds is 20 feet. Over
1000 snow shoveiers and workmen are on
the mountains tonight. Truckee is cut
of from all communication with the out
side world, but this is true of all mining
and o. her towns In the Sierras.
A passe- gsr named I. A, Lanford died
of pneumonia superinduced by an attack
Of Ia grippe, and was buried by the meo
on snow shoes al TrUckee Yesterday. il be-
ing impossible t. break the roa.i III
cemetery
Jacob Dcniz, snow shove'er, was killed
at Coliax yesterday by being struck by a
car.
Most OF the passengers in the two trains
near Blue Canyon are we'll provided Tor the
delay There are few second-class passen-
gers who had only enough money 10 buy
tickets and did not figure on the blockade.
They al.o did not prepare for The cold
weather that commenced when the storm
ceased.
Among the eastern passengers on the i'm
prisoned trains are the following. L. j.
Dalber, Pocaiello, ILL.,; j. c. FrsDger and
family, VIM. Fevitt. Bozeman. Mont;
Miss Hanna Dee, Ogden; John ii. Shaw
and family, McKeesport, Pa Q. +.
Waugh. Denver: Oliver ID. Ridder, Roch-
ester. Z. p. Rob rts, Maple Park H.;
w. III. Chatle, Hays City; james Doyle,
Omaha; {. F. Well, Chicago; S. Bernstine,
New York; Miss J. 5. Crerdall, Gslena, Ill;
J, ID. Mason. Denver; F. ID. Bose, Kan. !;
Miss Dade. New Hampshire; III. c. Cole.
man, Morristown, Pa.
At Dutch Flat, on the western slope OF
the Sierras, there are feet OF snow on the
level, or 2 feet more than ever before
recorded. The wagon roads and bitches
are blocked. Many houses have been
crushed by the snow, but no lives have
been lost. Snow shoes are the only means
of getting anywhere. The damage to fruit
trees will be considerable. Should the
slow 60 off with rain, the damage TO the
valley will be very great.
In addition to The imprisoned train:
near Blue Canyon, two esst-bound passen'
ger trains are showed in near Shady Run
The railroad people have done everything
in their power to make the passenger
comfortable, paying the men big wages Il
curry provisions on sDow-shoes a distanc'
of FIVE mics.
John J. Jennings, New York newspa
per man, who came out 10 meet Mics Nellie
Bly, in San Francisco and escort her to
New York, was caught in the blockade
several days, then made the journey iron
Blue Canyon 10 Alta on snow-shoes, ane
rode on an engine to Sacramento, where hi
arrived this nom ng, and took spscia
train to connect with MISS Bly, at Lathrop
In speaking of his experince, Mr.. Jennipg
said:
81 have seen snow and billiards in New
York, but people back there don't kno'
/ what snow is"
On the Oregon road the passenger train
bound to and from Portland are still
stuck in the deep SHOWS of Siskiyou Range
The road is blocked between Mott an
Dunsmuir, between Duusmuir and Sim
and between Sims and Redding. Supple
are being taken to the Imprisoned train
at Sims from Reddipg. The passenger
are on short rations. From Sims o
north to Edgewo0d the road Is stu
blocked.