Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-02-13
THE HORRIBLE SNOW
Silver Plume Mining Camp in the
Clutches Of the Death Deal
ing Snow Slide.
TEN LIVES ALREADY LOST
Terrible Gold Weather Continues in the
East-New York City, Traffic is About
Paralyzed, and Alarm is Felt in
Shipping Circles.

| Silver Plume, Colo. Feb. 13.-Two mighty
avalanches, combining into one, swe pt
down Cherokee gulch Sunday, carrying
| away a dozen or more cabins and mine
buildings with machinery, causing great
loss OF lite and damage. Eight dead
| bodies are at the Ihorgue; two more per-
sons are known to be lost, and three
have been taken out alive. The res
cuing party has only penetrated about
| 5 feet into the mass of wreckage piled
at the foot of the gulch to depth of IS
feet. The dead are, Dominick Destafno
and wife, two children. boy 5, and girl
y, Joseph Tondenia, Peter Tondenia,
John Tondenia, Jerome GuananZi, John
Bretto, Eurieo Navaria.
A drift about 100 feet high clings to
Ia mountain side. Should it become
loosened at the upper end, the town is
in danger of destruction. Slides started
in Cory city gulch, swept over the PeIi
can tunnel house. carrying away the
mine dumps and buildings. AS this
slide reached Main gulch, the snow in
Swallowhen gulch on the opposite
mountain, rushed down into Cherokee
gulch. Here the two rvalanches met,
and continued toward the town. just
back of Silver Plume in the main gulch
was settlement of Italian miners, di-
rectly in the path Of destruction. Their
cabins were crushed like egg-shels. AT
the turn in the gulch, just as it opens
onto the town, the slide was checked,
but stands threatening destruction to
this part of the camp.
THE SOUTH IN A CHILL.
Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 13.-The south
shivered today, in a temperature un-
precedentedly severe. From the Gulf
of Mexico northward, from the Atlantic
Coast to west of Texas, the cold wave
settled heavily, producing the lowest
temperature ever known. Admission,
Ala, reported Is below this morning.
Atlanta comes next with 81 below, the
lowest ever known here by six degrees.
Great suffering was reported. The At
lanta Journal & Constitution Company
furnished coal and provisions to hum
dreds of families.
DRIFTED AS NEVER BEFORE.
Potsville Pa, Feb. l3.-The coal reg
ions are snow bound to depth of sew
eral feet The snow drifted in a way
never equalled before. Railroad trafic is
KENTUCKY NOT TO BE LEFT.
Louisville, KY, Feb. 13.-The coldest
weather ever known in Kentucky was
recorded today. At Louisville, the ther-
mometer only reached 10 below, but in
some places it was reported over 80 be-
low. A coal shortage is reported from
all parts of the state.
OCEAN LINER IN DISTRESS
Swampscott, Mass, Feb. 13.-A big
steamer, apparently an ocean liner, was
sighted off Dreat ledge in Swampscott
bay this afternoon in the midst of the
storm. She was apparently sat anchor,
and was blowing her whistle continually.
NEW YORK PARALYZED.
New York, Feb. IA fearful storm
has almost paralyzed traffic in the city
today, and the upper and lower bays are
one mass of ice. Eight passenger and
five freight steamers are overdue. The
Hamburg American liner Bulgaria is re-
ported drifting hefplessly at sea by the
Weehawken which has arrived at the
Azores. The Weehawken took off 25 of
the 90 passengers on the Bulgaria, The
remainder could not be taken off owing
to the rough weather
The freighter Almida, 5s days out
from Shields has been about given up as
lost. No doubt a large feet of steamers
is awaiting outside the bar for the biz
zard to pass.
RAILWAY BLoCKADEs REMOVED.
Denver. Colo. Feb. 13.-The entire
Denver & Rio Grande railway system is
open with excepting the Blue River
branch between Leadville and Dillon
and traffic has been resumed in all de-
partments, and no further fear of delay
is entertained as the storm has abated.
The Colorado Midland is also open to
Leadville and rushing coal into that
camp.
wAsHINGToN's RECORD BROKEN.
Washington, Feb. l3.-The pheno-
menal weather of the past week has
eliminated in blizzard-like snow storm
today, which broke all records. The
temperature last night went to Is below
zero. Business in the departments was
almost at standstill, less than half the
force reporting for duty. The paralysis
in all kinds of business was the worst
since the blizzard of March, 1888.
NEW GULF STATES RECORDS.
A weather bureau special bulletin
says:.By far the most important feature