Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-12-15
The STORM KING At LARGE.


With the sun piercing the atmosphere
in Santa FEES valley with his genial rays,
and people walking abouS with no need
OF over coats, it will doubtless be news to
many readers to learn what the storm
king of winter Is doing for other localities
not many miles distant. For the past
week remarkably cold weather has pre-
vailed Just north of US. At Chama the
mercury has touched 20 degrees below
zero, at Durango, Colo, % degrees below
and to 10 degrees below at points in San
Juan county. Just east of US it has not
been so cold, but four days and nights OF
snowfall leaves the beautiiulfrom eighteen
| inches to four feet deep from Las Vegas
eastward. At Springer the railroad men
say there are two feet OF snow on the level ;
on the Ration range 1t is four feet deep
and drifting badly SO that all trains west
bound are tied up at Trinidad. Through
out eastern Colorado and Kansas there Is
also much snow, and even as far south as
Albuquerque a snow ia'l Of several
inches is reported. which is extraordinary.
Naturally, under such circumstances,
one turns to see what Foster, the weather
prophet, says about storms in this locall-
ty, and this is what he predicts:
The weather will be quite cold in the
central valleys about the 18th or 10Th. The
next storm will probably be followed by
quite low temperatures as the cold wave
crosses the continent from the 18th to
the 22d, after which the weather will
average warmer till about January 10.
| Not continuous warm winter weather,
but an average warm for twenty or thirty
DAYS with the cool and warm waves alter
nately crossing the continent as usual.
A storm wave will be due to strike the
Alaskan coast about December Is, cross
the Rockies about the 10TH the great cen
trail valleys from the 18th to the 10Th,
reaching the eastern states about the goth
and eastern Canada about the DIST Its
path will probably be from the mouth Of
the Columbian river toward St. Louis and
then in the direction of Maine. The
weather will change to considerably
warmer south and east of this storm
wave.
STORM NOTES.
The east bound trains that passed Lamy
Junction Sunday night got as far east as
Springer and had to tie up.
At noon to-day it was thought that o.
least three days would elapse before the
west bound trains over the Santa Ft
could pass Trinidad.
, A fearful storm prevailed at Cumbres
mountain, on the d. & R. g., yesterday
and as far west as Durango, though thu
Denver and Santa Fe line is still open.
A private dispatch from Trinidad says
the storm of the last three days was the
greatest there in years. All trains on the
Fort Worth road are blockaded by snow
The Denver-Santa Fe narrow gauge line
is running trains on time, and it is likely
that many of the south bound passen
gers snow ed in at Trinidad will come II
via the narrow gauge tomorrow night l.
the Santa Fe blockade continues as Ions
as now reported, three or four days.
The local office of the Western Union
company was the only one in the south
west that could supply Geographic com
munication with the north and eas
yesterday. Agent Lewis brought Denver
into connection with Ell Paso and al
points along the Santa Fe and A. & P. in
New Mexico and Arizona by using the
narrow gauge wires, and it proved ar
important and timely stroke for the rail
roads as well as for commercial and press
report purposes.