The daily morning Alaskan., 1899-12-20
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Heaviest Local Snow Storm Ever Known Now Raging.
LOCOMOTIVE BURIED
Engine and Rotary covered by n slide Forty Wen Digging Them Out-Man Pound Frozen.

The snow storm which began Monday morning has continued unoeaSinglY ever since, and old timers, including the first white settler, Capt. Moore, say it is the hardest ever known in Skagwav. The constant wind, blowing from the north, has kept the light fine snow in the air like a cloud, but sufficient has fallen to probl. bly give an average depth at this point of two feet,
 The White Pass railroad is having con siderable difficulty getting trains through. No passenger train was sent out from Skag- way vesterday, there being no blow at this end. The train that remained at Ben nett the night before left there at IT a. m. vesterdav, following the rotary, which was pushed by two locomotives. From three to eight feet of snow was found in the cuts from Bennett to White Pass, which was reached at { o'clock.
 The blow got along all right until one mile south of Switchback, when it cut out The lower part of the accumulated face of snow on the mountain side. This loosened the mass above and it came down with a rush, burving the blow and the locomotives out of sight. The passenger train, being behind. was not touched by the slide.
 Fifteen feet of snow was in the cut, which is Iso feet long. Forty men from the section crews, who were carried on the passenger train from White Pass a: emergency men, were put to work to dig out the train At I2:3o o'clock this morn ing Supt. Rogers expected To have the tair moving again in two hours, and said Sh' would probably reach Skagway at 0 or o'clock this morning. He reports thai when the slide struck the rotary it broke some of the windows, and the man ir charge of the rotary became alarmed anC gave the signal to the locomotive to eeaS' pushing. They stopped, and became stuck Had the signal to stop not have been given says Mr, Rogers, thev could have pushed through the cut, and have got here betor' midnight. Water in the engines tender. almost gave out and it was necessary tC use melte1 snow.
 There are 20 passengers on the train fol lowing the rotirv. They have all been prov ided with food from nearby Statior house, and are being kept comfortably ir the cars.
 Snow fills all the shelf like grades alonl the high bluffs so as io take the vaean,' made by the removal of the earth or rock in opening the road.
 The snow fences recently put up as ar experiment are giving entire satisfaction and keeping snow from nearly all cut, which thev guard.
 Superintendent Rogers said early this morning that probably the next train would not leave Skagway for Bennett until tomorrow morning, as it will be necessary to overhaul engines and give the train crews a rest before sending them out. Should the storm continue, he says, an et- fort will be made Co send a train one way over the road daily, thus giving a tram out one day and one in the next.
 The wires to Selklrk, which were down day before yesterday, are up again. but | Dawson and other points beyond Selkirk are still out of the world. Reports show the wind does not prevail in the Yukon valley bsyo Bennett, and the indications are the storm must be confined Co the coast
 P. oregon, a man bound for Caribou. to cook for the railroad camps, was found wing unconscious in a snow shed on the railroad yesterday with his face and hands frozen. He will be brought to the city by the next train to arrive.