The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-31

ana what part of the slope is 10 he af
tected- On the 18th the winds at Fort
Canby were of hurricane force. eighty
elSht miles an hour, and the fact that all
coast connections have been since cut off
gives rise 10 some uneasiness lest the
| storms should have been more serious
than Is known AT present. From many
southern points reports come that the
weather has been more or less cloudy.
ana IN some places there have been slight
rams Along the south coast. through
santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties
ana IN the Santa Cruz mountains. the pre-
clpltation has been heavy. In San Fran
c4SCo the velocity of the wind was but
twenty-five miles yesterday morning
Nhat II was at the Heads the bureau
couiu not report, because the Point Reeves
wire Is also down. At Sacramento. Cal.
the WINDS velocity was tWentv-eight
nhies; az Red Bluff, Cal, forty miles; at
carson City, New, thirty-two; at Winnie
mucca, New, and Walla Walla. Wash.
forty-four; at Helena, Mont. thirtv-four
miles an hour. Rain fell in nlonotonous
drlzZie all day. For the fourteen hours
preceding O'Clock in the morning the
local fall was 1.16 inches, and for the
| twelve succeeding hours. up TO o'clock
last evening, Los, making the storm total
III this city :. % inches, remarkably heavy
fall.
Reports to Southern Pacific Headquarters
show that the storm has been general in
Northern California and Oregon, and
While the damage has been considerable
no trains have been DELAYED On the
Shasta division the snowfall was heavy,
accompanied by wind, and IN some locali-
ties by snow. In the Slskiyou mountains
the snow Is deeper than ever before at
TINS season OF the year, reaching a depth
OF eighteen and twenty feet in many of the
cuts along the Shasta route. Between
Coles and Steinman, on this division,
snow plows are keeping the track
clear with considerable difficulty For
twelve hours before 8 O'Clock yes-
terday afternoon the telegraph wires
were down the other side of Red Bluff.
but at that hour communication was es-
tabllsned and the track north was re-
ported as clear. At Gold Run il showed
furiously for nine hours preceding a. m.
AT Blue Canyon twelve inches of snow fell
during the night, and at a. m. they had
two feet of snow on the ground Emil
grant Gap had the same snowfall and the
same depth on the ground, and Cisco,
with snowfall of twelve inches, has four
and half feet of snow on the ground
outside the railway station. Nine feet of
snow covers the ground at Cascade, and
four and half feet was on the ground at
Summit, with fail of one foot more dur
ing Monday night.
FAIRHAVEN, Dec. 30.-[Special THE
first mail from the south since Monday
arrived tonight. Telegraph communica-
ton has been suspended for two days on
account of the wires being down in Skagit
and SnOhomish counties. In Whatcom
county the lines have been are all right.
communication having been kept up be-
tween here and Vancouver. The harbor
has been calm, and the storm here was
much less severe than at points further
south
SALEM, Or. Dec. 30-Information re-
ceived from Fall City is to the effect that
the heavy wind storm which prevailed in
that section during last Monday blew
down several houses and trees. One man.
named Pugh, whose house vas blown
from the foundation, died from fright
RENO, New, Dec. 30.-Nine inches Of
snow fell last night and wind drifted the
snow. playing havoc with travel. This
brings the seasons water fall up to 2.66
inches. This has been the coolest and
stOrmiest December that has been known
for years.
TRUcKEE, Cal, Dec 30.-Two feet of
fresh snow fell last night. A large force
of men is striving TO keep the various ice
ponds clear OF snow, but enough workmen
cannot be obtained. The finest crop of ice
of any year ever known on the Truckee
river is ready for harvesting, and all the
companies have commenced storing. Ten
thousand dollars will be expended, if
necessary, to save the ice crop. Hundreds
of spans of horses are drawing scrapers
over the ice constantly, and regiment of
men with shovels are at work. Two rotary
snow plows and all the push plows are
being used to keep the railroad line clear.
ALBUQUERQUE, \. NJ, Dec. 30-Both the
Santa Fe and Atlantic II Pacific roads are
troubled with serious snow blockades. No
Eastern mails have been received here
over the Santa Fe route for four days.
Passenger trains are blockaded in the
Ration mountains and in the vicinity OF
Springer. The blockade on the Atlantic &
Pacific is between Grants and Chavoz,
about 100 miles west of this city. The
snowstorms in the mountains are re-
ported as something unheard of for sew
eral years, and stories of great suffering
among towns in the mountains are in cir
culation.