The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-24

San francisco, JAM 2S.-There is a
complete blockade of the California &
Oregon railroad at Upper Soda Springs,
Cal, above Dunsmuir. The great avail
anche of SNOW, rocks and trees which
came down at that point on Monday was
supplemented by another big slide yester-
day, and Superintendent Fillmore says 1t
VIII take forty-eight hours at least, ana
possibly a longer period, to get the Shasta
route cleared.
No passenger train was sent north
last night. In its place a fierce of 100 adj
ditional men was dispatched from Oak
land to aid the 400 or more already ON
the scene of the cataclysm. They took
with them two of the largest hydraulic
pumps of the Monarch pattern, which
will be placed at work at once on arrival.
The Sacramento river goes rushing past
close to the track at the location of the
blockade, and its waters Will be utilized
by The great rams to cut away the i'm
nlenSe mass of rocks and earth there
piled up. The slide Of Monday extended a
distance of 1000 feet, and the mass of
debris is piled up to a depth of twenty
four feet. At the same time the Sacra-
mento river was damned up by the falling
material to a depth of sixty feet
HercuIean WORK.
1t was a herculean work for the force
of men to clear away the mountain of
obstruction. They set about it with a
Will, however, and kept up their efforts
until noon yesterday, when another I'M
mense quantity of earth and debris came
down on the rails from the hillsides ,4s
feet above and obliterated all the Work
that had been done.
Fortunately the men were at dinner III
the time or death would probably have
been their fate AS it was the situation
was considered so desperate that a report
| of the condition of affairs was telegraphed
TO Superintendent Fillmore with d press
ing demand for aid. The result was that
more men were ordered to the scene. The
company is aprehenslve of other Slides
and the situation is critical.
Sky Clear Once More.
The sky was clear today for the first
| time in three weeks. Los Angeles was
the only point in the state reporting
rain, and the storm is believed to have
moved eastward. During the past five
| days 3.54 Inches Of rain fell at San Fran
cisco, making the seasons rainfall 1886
inches to date. The river is still rising
and is dangerously thigh at Sacramento,
but is falling at points above. Danger
| from floods is believed to be over. eau
tionary signals along the coast have been
ordered down.
| In the mountains, however. snow is
! still falling. AT Reno, Nev., it has been
| drifting badly today. Trains are delayed
| sixteen hours, and the eastbound passen-
! ger train Is stuck in the drifts between
! Gold Run and Summit. Between Sisson
and Dunsnuir, Gala, snow slides block
the track and Sundays southbound pas
senger train is still in the drifts wnere
/ 1t has been imprisoned for eighty hours
! The indications are that the blockade in
the mountains will continue for -four
days longer. Ten feet of snow has fallen
during the past ninety-six hours. Work
men digging out the track today mar
rowly escaped death by an avalanche
1,50O feet long, averaging sixty feet deep
| composed of snow, debris and big pine
trees, which slid down the mountain side