, 1891-02-10
The Storm King Holds High Car
niyal for a Day.
West Bound Tourists Delayed for
Thirty-two Hours.
Three Trains Snow Bound Between
Cheyenne and Sidney.
A Conductors Brave Five Mile
Walk in the Blizzard.

come like thunderbolts. Sundays storm
approached the magnitude and violence of
a blizzard. Although comparatively brief
in duration and un~accompanied By ex-
tremely rigorous temperature, Cheyenne
has seen nothing like it since April, 1882.
The storm arose in this region of country,
aud was not ~ioreseen by the signal office.
1t was introduced Saturday night. and Tor
t%wenty-four hours maintained Il record
which very few desire to see surpassed.
According to Observer Slaughter, who
is in charge of the Cheyenne office, the
storm extended from western Wyoming
to eastern Iowa. On the north it ex-
tended from the southern part-of Dakota
to the northern part of Kansas. 1t
reached its maximum of intensity in east
ern Nebraska, the southern part of Da-
kota aud western Iowa. At Cheyenne
about two inches of snow fell altogether,
and the wind blew from % to As miles
an hour from midnight Saturday until 5
O'Clock yesterday morning. The temper
AZURE during the storm ranged from So
above zero to 90 below. IL eastern Ne
braska and western Iowa from five to
seven inches OF snow fell; the wind
reached R maximum of 55 miles an hour
aud the temperature fell from So above to
G. below zero. Last evening the weather,
though slightly chilly, had grown much
warmer with the in LEGATIONS that the
storm was entirely over. having moved to
the Indian territory and the lower Miss
isslppi valley.
Superintendent Wurtele and his men
probably never got a greater move on
themselves than they did during Sunday
when the storm ragged so violently.
Wurtele went to the West to see that the
line was kept clear everywhere and so
active were all the measures that there
was no delay In the trains from the West
which all reached here safely. To the
East 1t was entirely different. No trains
reached here from that quarter during the
whole of Sunday. No. | was s~nowbound
between Eghert and Hillsdale. The fast
mail was hung up at Kimball while No.
3 was held at Sidney. On the latter
train there was some suffering on account
of cold, the coal being exhausted before
Sidney was reached. It was a hard pull
in the teeth of the blizzard but once
Sidney was reached everything was made
quite comfortable and there was no lack
of provisions.
Train No. /. which was stuck 10 a
snowdrift between Egbert and Hillsdale all
day Sunday and most OF Yesterday. was
probably 10 a worse way than any of the
other trains. 1t had no town from which
to draw comfort, and the outlook, with
the wind bowling over the hcerless
prairie, was very far from pleasant.
Fortunately the train included a dining
car with a fair supply of provisions on
board, so that none were forced to go
hungry, aud the cars we're comfortably
heated. The ovcrshadcwiug trouble,
however, came from the fear of a collision.
The fast mail, which usually reaches
here about an hour and a halt
after No. |. was believed to be close
at hand, and in the face OF such a
storm might readily run into them and
add a collision and confllEration to the
terrors of the blizzard. Conductor Wood
mausee, for fear of such a calamity, de
eided to walk back FIVE and a half miles
10 Egbert so as to signal the train which
was expected to arrive at any moment.
Some idea of the danger of the trip may
be gathered from the fact that the wind
blew such a piercing gale hat the passen-
gers in going from the cars which they oc-
cupied into the dining car formed a line
the one holding on to the other for tear
of being swept off the platform After
desperate exertion Woodmansce aceomp.
lished his journey, paying the penalty Of
frozen face aud ears. The passengers
adopted the following preamble and reso-
lution as a token of appreciation of the
conduct Of Mr.. Woodmansee:
WHEREAS. The overland flyer train
No. /, gong West on the Union Pacific
railroad was snow bound Feb. 8. 1891, at
a point about midway between Egbert and
HIllsdal2, Wyoming, and
WHEREAS, the fast mail { ain also 90
ing West was following closely behind
aud
WHEREAS, Conductor l.. II. Wood
mansee, realizing the danger his passen-
gers were in, at the risk of his own life,
walked FIVE and a halt miles to signal said
mail train and froze bis face and ears,
therefore, be it
ReSoired, That the thanks and graft
tude of passengers on train No. l, are
hereby rendered to said conductor for his
hernism, aud that these resolutions be
published in THE CHEYENNE DAILY
LEADER.
w. j. Macdonald, Chicago.
Miss Woolf. New York.
Sam Woolf, Salt Lake,
l.. S, Silva, New York.
William Burke, Salt Lake,
j. w. Brown, Sullivan. ILL.,,
NJ. Wulff, Chicago.
Mrs. Lewis Silva. New York,
Miss Maud Slower. New York,
MIS- Rebecca Woolf, Chicago,
Mrs. Hager. San Francisco,
Mrs, A.. s. Campbell, Hastings, Neb.
During Sunday it was a physical i'm
possibility to clear the tracks to the East.
The weather moderated toward night, and
a big stock of provisions was prepared at
the Inter Ocean. At G O'Clock yesterday
morning Station Agent Dunlevy, with the
provisions and a gang OF forty men, took