Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-10-19
BLIZZARD IN COLORADO.
Railroad Lines Blockaded by Snow
Damage by the Storm in Denver.

Railroad Lines Blockaded by Snow
Damage by the storm in Denver.
DENVER, Col, 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 be-
fore the storm formed portions of signs,
cOrnices, chimnevs and even steeples
of churches. Had the weather
been little colder snow would
have accompanied the storm and the
the famous New York blizzard of 1889
in destructiveness, for the wind at times
blew at the rate of forty miles an hour.
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.
fortunately no human being was
touched by the swinging wires,
but three horses which were
being driven at the time we're struck
and shocked to death. The heavy rains
filled the cable cOnduits, and for time
the cars were slipped together with the
electric cars, which on several lines
were forced to suspend operations be-
cause of the breaking of overhead
wires. Cellars were filled with water
and great damage was done to goods,
while the continuous rain beating on
the north side of the buildings has seri-
ously affected the walls CT some blocks.
In the suburbs where the wind and rain
had full sway many small houses were
partially wrecked and fences and trees
were blown about unfortunately.
Throughout the middle portion of the
state the severest storm for a number
of years prevailed yesterday. To-day
all of the mountain roads are more or
less blocked, and this morning there
was not wire in operation and no
trains moving except on the South Fork
branch of the Union Pacific. No trains
moved either way last night or this
morning on the mountain divisions.
The Union Pacific, Cheyenne and Fort
Worth trains are blockaded some
where, and as most of the wires up to
nightfall were still Frustrated it was
difficult to locate them. The Santa Fe
and Midland trains, due here last night,
did not arrive until this evening. The
Rock Island is blockaded between Ly-
mand and Colorado Syringe; no trains
can pass that way, but are running over
the Union Pacific. Snow-plows are OPP
Grating in the cuts on the divide, fifty
miles south of Denver, to-day, and it
was learned that there are from three
to seven feet of snow in the cuts. Grip
pie Creek reports three feet of snow
there, and as the miners in that vicinity
were entirely unprep pared for the storm
much suffering will ensue.
The storm was very violent in Eastern
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 slowly being
restored,