St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-14
DENVER TORN UP.
The Great Storm Litters the City's
Streets With ALI Kinds of
Debris.
Railways in All Parts of the
State Badly BlOckaded
by Snow.

DENVER, Oct. 13.-The rain, sleet and
wind storm that began Tuesday night
ended this 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 signs, corniceS, Chin
neys and even steeples of churches. Had
the weather been little colder snow
would have accompanied the storm, and
the chances are that it would have
rIvaled the famous New York blizzard
of 1889 in destructiveness for the wind
at times blew at the rate of forty miles
an hour.
The heavy rain filled the cable con-
dults, and for a time the cars were
stopped, together with the electric
cars, which on several lines were
forced to suspend operations because of
the breaking of overhead wires Cellars
were filled with water, and great dam
age was done to goods, while the con-
tinuous rain beating on the north side
OF the buildings has seriously affected
the walls of some blocks. In the sub
urbS, where the wind and rain had
full sway, many small houses were par
italy wrecked, and fences and trees
were blown about indiscriminately.
Throughout the middle portion of the
state the Severest storm for number of
years prevailed yesterday. Today all of
the mountain roads are more or less
blocked and this morning there was not
Il wire i'll operation and no trains NOV
ing except the South Park branch of the
Union Pacific. No trains moved either
way last night or this morning on the
mountain divisions. The Union Pacific,
Cheyenne IL Fort Worth trains are
blockaded somewhere, and, as most of
the wires up to nlghtfall were still
Frustrated, it was difficult TO
locate them. The Santa Fe ana Midland
trains due here last night did not arrive
until this evening. The Rock Island is
blockaded between Lymand and Color
ado Springs. No trains can pass that
way, but are running over the Union
Pacific. Snow ploWs are operating Ill
the cuts on the divide, fifty miles south
of Denver, today, and it was learned
that there are from three to seven feet
of snow in the cuts. Cripple creek re-
ports three feet of snow there, and as
the miners in that vicinity were entirely
unprepared for the storm much suffer
ing will ensue.
The storm was very violent in East
ern Colorado, the telegraph wires being
Frustrated for over two miles, and COM
munication between Denver and the
Eastern cities has been completely cut
off for twenty-four hours. Wyoming
also received a part Of the storm and, as
the wires between Cheyenne and this
city are Frustrated, it is impossible to
get but meager reports from there. 1t
is learned, however. that the telegraph
lines were broken in every direction
from Cheyenne, but are slowing being
restored
Reports are arriving tonight from diff
ferent points in Colorado giving the ac-
counts Of numerous accidents caused by
yesterdays storm. Near Elmo, d small
town in Southern Colorado, Union Pa
cltic train was derailed by striking a
snow bank and Conductor Hinton had
both of his arms broken, while his
brother, brakeman. received tract
qred skull.
A minute later another freight train,
which was following the first one, ran
into the wreck, the engineer being IN
able to see it on account of the binding
snow storm, and Engineer Howe was
terribly scalded. The trains were run
ming slowly at the time of the wrecks
and no great damage was done
to the rolling stock. Later in
the day in the Elmo yards, Varnell, a
Rio GraDde brakeman, was fatally in
jured by being knocked from the top of
moving train by striking his head on
the framework of the car-Weighing
scales.
At Central City, Ratlso Ebili, an Aus
trlan miner, blinded by the snow and
wind, walked into an eighty-foot shaft
and was instantly killed.