The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-04
SNOWSTORMS AND
VERY COLD WAVES
Billiards Yet Prevail in
Colorado.
Special Dispatch to The Cali.

DENVER, Feb. 3.-While no snow
fell in Denver to-day, snowstorms and
cold waves are reported by the Weather
Bureau to be bearing down upon this
city from every direction. A blizzard
prevailed at Leadville, where snow has
fallen for ten days in succession. Lead
vile is the Western terminus at pres
ent Of both the Denver and Rio Grande
and the Colorado Midland railroads,
though neither is sparing expense in
its efforts to clear the tracks west of
that city. Trains over the Rio Grande
began running to-day in regular SEIZED
ule between Denver and Leadville and
from Denver to Durango over the mar
row gauge. Trains are also running
east from Grand Junction TO Gunnison
and Ouray over the narrow gauge. The
Midland Terminal is blockaded, but
communication with Cripple Creek is
still maintained over the Florence and
Cripple Creek line.
The first train from Como over the
South Park Road since the beginning
of the big storm, three weeks ago, ar
rived in Denver tonight. A rotary,
followed by trainload of provisions,
is cutting its way TO Kokomo, and the
intention is, if the train is not buried
by snowslides, to enter Leadyille to-
morrow.
A dispatch from Silverton says Ed
ward Rogers, a miner, was killed by a
snowslide near town to-day.
The officials of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railway Company say that
system has not had such an experience
since the winter of 1885.
At Glenwood Springs are three Rio
Grande and two Midland trains snow
bound. Each road has train at Lead
vile, and the Rio Grande two at Grand
Junction and one at Minturn. No road
except the Union Pacific is accepting
through west-bound passengers.
Snow is reported on the Rio Grande
lines all the way from three feet on the
level at Glenwood Springs to six feet
deep at Crested Butte. At 5 O'Clock
this evening the mercury stood at %
below at Marshall Pass.
A train started from Minturn with a
gang of shovelerS to open the line
through the canyon of the Grand River.
At o'clock this evening the train
had not even reached the canyon.
The Denver & Rio Grande Company
expects to have its main line open by
next Sunday. The West Minstrels. the
Gay Coney Island company and Shaft
No. 10'' company are all blockaded al
different points in the mountains
LEADVILLE. Feb. 3.-The citizens
ships so far, with the exception of the
miners on the Gold Belt route, who
have been laid off owing to the block
ade and are losing, in the aggregate,
$500 in wages per day. Both of the
Leadville smelters are cutting down
their work and are carrying on opera
lions in their yards with the utmost
difficulty and at the loss of large sum
of money each day.
The coal situation is still critical for
the reason that there is so much coal
consumed daily. the smelters alone
using $50 tons per day. Twelve cars of
coal which came in on the Midland and
twenty cars on the Rio Grande were
consumed in an hour and coal dealers
are far behind with their orders.
SALT LAKE. Feb. 3.-The snowfall
in this valley during yesterday and
to-day was the heaviest known for
many years. Railroad traffic has not
been seriously interrupted and all local
trains arrived on time to-day.