Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-13
THE ELEMENTS ON A LARK
Heavy Snow Storm, Accompanied by
Violent Winds, in the Centen-
nial State.
CRIPPLE CREEK WAS The STORM CENTER
Immense Downpour of Rain Water in
Nebraska and Kansas-Cyclones
in Both States-Few Fatalities
Are Reported.

Denver, April 1s.-The great snow and
wind storm, which brought trains to a
stand still on the divide between Denver
and Colorado Springs yesterday on all
the railroads except the Santa Fe, abated
during the night and to-day the sun is
shining bright. The railroads we're opened
to-day.
AT Monument and Palmer Lake, where
the trains were stalled, there are eight
inches of snow on the level and in places
the drifts are twenty feet deep.
Further south the snowfall was even
greater. At Trinidad over two feet of
snow fell and hurricane drifted the snow
into banks from ten to fifteen feet high,
blockading all thoroughfares.
Two west bound Santa Fe trains and
one Gulf passenger train are tied up at
Trinidad.
On the Ration mountains the storm was
more intense than anywhere else, the snow
drifting as high as twenty feet. The
storm extended from La Junta to Las
Vegas, but was not SO severe south of
Ration.
THE WIND BLEW SOME.
In Pueblo the wind attained velocity
of fifty-four miles all hour. The two tall
smoke stacks of the Citizens Electric
Light works were blown down. Glass
was blown out of windows and wires were
badly mixed.
On the prairies to the east the storm
will benefit ranchmen who put in large
acreage of small grain, but it is believed
that some cattle perlshed in the blizzard.
In the Cripple Greek district, a number
of buildings and many tents in which
miners and prospectors lived were blown
down. The Anchoria- Leland shaft house
was demolished.
The Cripple Creek Commission COM
pany's three story building was blown
down and then consumed by fire. Many
small fires started in camp, but were soon
put out.
The total damage IN camp is estimatad
at $4,000.
Trains we're stalled and nearly all wires
went down.
In Victor, the cars are covered with
snow and many drifts reach to the house
tops.
In Denver there was no snowfall worth
mentioning and the maximum velocity
of the wind was forty miles an hour,
while on the divide it blew at the rate of
seventy.five miles.
NO FATALITIES AT oR1PPLE CREEK.
Denver.-A special to the Times from
Cripple Greek says: No fatalities have
beln reported as a result OF the storm
Yesterday, which was the most severe ever
witnessed in this camp by anybody nov
here.
At Gilett the storm was worse even than
at Cripple Creek. A big dance hall was
demolished two story building, just
completed, toppled over; new business
block was blown over against the post
office; a dozen houses we're unroofed and
twenty tents scattered about. The j. b.
Banks furniture tent was lifted and his
stock scattered. In number of instances
gravel was hurled through plate glass
windows with the force of bullet, not
shattering the panes, but leaving only
holes rs large as the stones.
DAMAGE AT ALTMAN.
At Altman, number of houses were
badly damaged. The Miners hall was
wrecked. The Joe Dandy shaft house on
the Raven was demolished. The shaft
house of the Rigi on Battle mountain was
blown down and the boiler rolled over.
The postoffice at Independence had the
end blown off and the school house
was totally destroyed.
TRAINS AGAIN ON TIME.
Denver.--The railroads out of Denver
south all opened to-day ana trains are
being dispatched regularly.
ENORMOUS RAINFALL.
Hastings, Neb. - The heaviest rain
storm in this part of Nebraska in several
years set in on Saturday. At O'Clock
Sunday night five and quarter inches
of water had fallen. The storm is gen.
eral throughout the western part of ths
state and in Colorado.
RAIN AND WIND IN KANSAS.
Scandia, Kas. = Northern Kansas has
had the best wetting in three years. Since
Saturday four inches Of rain have fallen.
A smail cyclone passed three miles west
of here last night about 10 O'Clock. A
house and several barns were destroyed,
INIT no lives vera lost