The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-03
SNOW BEGINS AGAIN
Falling Heavily In Colorado
and Drifting Badly.
DEATH BY AN AVALANCHE
Breckenridge Blockade Broken
Wrecks in the Drifts.
DEATH BY AN AVALANCHE

Denver. Col, Feb. 2.-The snow storm
that has ragged with brief intermission for
newed today with energy undated. The
snow fell during the later hours OF the
night and nearly all day was very heavy,
while strong winds piled it up and filed
railroad cuts. almost completely blocking
railroad traffic in the mountain district.
Snowslides have occurred at several
points, one eighteen miles west Of Lead
vile on Mount Ebert, carrying down a
miners cabin and burying William Man
ming, aged 50 years.
Many mountain towns are cut off from
the world, the only means OF communica-
ton being men ON snow shoes. Food and
fuel supplies are becoming alarmingly
short in many places.
A difficult and really hazardous piece
of work to relieve the suspense at Breck-
inridge, Dillon and other points around
the first named camp, was accomplished
by the Colorado and Southern road today
a noon, when citizens armed with shovels
cleared off the South Park tracks to the
depot in Breckenridge and much bat
tered supply train crawled into the town
the first inside for three weeks.
The situation at Breckenridge was be-
coming critical. Food was becoming
scarce; the groceries kept in the stores
were at low ebb. Rolled oats and break
fast foods were being fed to horses and
stock. Hay yesterday could not be pur-
chased for love nor money. Oats were
worth their weight in gold Miners, pros
pectors, mill men and timber cutters were
coming from the surrounding hills, beg
ging provisions. Breckenridge was spot
in a sea of snow. Slides IN all directions
made the roads leading into the camps
impossible. The supply train included sew
eral freight cars, loaded with hay, grain.
COAL beef, -four and groceries sufficient to
last about two weeks more. It took nine
hours TO make the run from Como 70
observation-disclosures miles.
At eLadville the supply of coal is so
small that a forced shutdown of mines
and smelters is threatened. Railroad men
say the numerous snowslides are unprece-
dented a this season of the year, slides
usually occurring only in the spring. The
cause now IS the enormous amount Of
snow on the mountains.
Denver, Col, Feb 2-The mercury
reached 10 below zero last night. It was
below at O'Clock this morning, dropping
another degree before O'clock. when the
weather again began to moderate. 1t be-
gan showing at that hour All trans
continental railroads leading through Col
Ia1
bound trains from Salt Lake, on the Col
orado Midland and Denver and Rio Grande
roads are stalled at Glenwood Springs, be-
ing unable to proceed further because OF
the snow on the tracks. The westbound
trains on these roads have pushed through
the drifts as far as Eagle Pass, where
they are now blocked. Train No. l, on
the Denver and Rio Grande, ran into a
snowside near Shoshone, about five miles
from here. The mail car telescoped the
tender and the baggage car was jammed
into the mail car. The mail clerk and the
baggagemaster were seriously injured.
Their names have not been learned. The
slide which caused the disaster is about
100 feet long and Is feet deep.
Information has been received here by
Rio Grande road that a snowslide on its
line nine miles east of Glenwood Springs
today came down on top of a work train,
wrecking the engine and cars and killing
three of the wrecking crew and injuring
two others. The killed are:
ROADMASTER MMAHON.
Two section men, names unknown.
The injured include the fireman of the
work engine and a section hand. Their
ames have not been learned.
The work train had been sent to clear
the snow-blocked tracks east Of Glenwood
and was blowing through a drift when the
slide came and buried the workmen. For
some time It was feared the entire crew
OF 80 men were lost but all have been &C
counted for to Superintendent Ridgely.
A SECOND NEAR THE FIRST.
Glenwood Springs, Col, Feb. "A second
snowslide occurred today about six miles
east of this place between here and the
scene of the wreck of the Denver and Rio
Grande passenger train which ran into the
first slide last night. The relief train as
well as the ditched passenger is now tied
up until the second slide can be removed
from the tracks.
AROUND ZERO AT SPOKANE.
Spokane. Wash, Feb. 2.-The tempera-
ture has lowered around zero Tor the past
twenty-fOur hours. a clipping wind has
brown steadily out Of the northeast, which
makes the weather bitter cold. PasseG-
gers coming in from the northern country
report u to % degrees below in the Koo-
tena country of British Columbia and On
the C0'vf}a resArva ZION Al Tekoa Wash
Earl Drummer, aged :. was frozen TO deat IN
while going to school a mile and halt
in The country.
SEVERE BLIZZARD IN IDAHO.
Boise, Idaho. Feb. 2.-One OF the most
severe bLzzsrds in the history OF Idaho
IS raging in Lembi county. message
from Red Rock, Mont, the junction. states