The Portland daily press., 1892-10-15

passable by the Debris-Tree Trunks
and Church Stceples Delay Traffic
Railroad Trains Lost in the Storm
They Struggle Through Many Hours
Behind Time.
DENVER, Col, October 1.-THE rain,
sleet and wind storm that began Tuesday
night ended yesterday morning, leaving
the city in torn-up condition. The
streets are Uttered with limbs and trunks
of trees and all sorts Of debris, which
before the storm formed portions of
signs, cornices and even steeples of
churches. The electric light, telephone,
telegraph and electric car trolley wires
were mixed in the greatest confusion, and
as the wind swung them to and fro they
emitted deadly flashes which the passers
by had difficulty in escaping. In the
suburbs, where the wind and rain had
full sway, many small houses were par
tally wrecked and fences and trees were
blown about unfortunately.
Throughout the middle portion of the
state the severest storm for number of
years prevailed on Wednesday, and all
of the mountain roads are more or less
blocked. The Union Pacific and Fort
Worth trains are blockaded somewhere,
and as the wires are still prostrated it is
difficult to locate them. The Sante Fe
and Midland trains due here Wednesday
night, did not arrive until last evening.
The Rock Island road is bloekaded be-
tween Lyman and Colorado Springs.
Cripple Creek
Reports Three Feet of Snow
there, and as the miners in that vicinity
were entirely unprepared for the storm,
much suffering will ensue.
The storm was very violent in eastern
Colorado, the telegraph wires being pros
trated for over two miles, and communi
cation between Denver and the Eastern
cities has been completely cut off for "a
hours. Wyoming also received part of
the storm, and as the wires between
Cheyenne and this city are prostrated, it
is impossible to get but meagre reports
from there. 1t is learned, however, that
the telegraph lines were broken in every
direction from Cheyenne, but are slowly
being restored.
The Republican received special from
Cheyenne at one o'clock this morning
which says that for nearly two days the
severest storm ever known on. the Union
Pacific railroad has been raging there
and as far west as Ogden. Utah. In all
directions telegraphic communication
was cut off until last night, when this
dispatch was sent through on Temporal
rily constructed wires. All
Railroads Have Been Blocked
the cuts being filled with snow, which in
some places was piled up eighteen feet.
Rotary snow plows have been hard at
work between Granite and Laramie the
snow being five feet deep on the level at
the latter place. A half dozen west
bound trains were tied up there all day
yesterday, but left after the return Of
the snow plow last night. The Cheyenne
Northern is also entirely blocked, tele-
graphic communication being cut OFF, and
no one knows where the belated trains
on it are. Two days have elapsed since
the road was showed in.
At Granite canyon Conductor Roberts
yesterday was blown off the platform of
a car and hurled down fifteen foot en-
bankment, the deep snow saving his life.
Reports are being received of immense
loss of cattle and horses in Northern Col
orado any in. Wyoming. 1t is estimated
that almost third of them have. been
destroyed. An unknown dead man was
found by the side of the railroad track
near Greeley, Col, yesterday. He had
perished from the efforts of the storm.