The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-03
SNOW SLIDES IN. COLORADO.
MEAN GLENsyooD SPRINGS A TRAIN
WAS hurled.
Three of the Crew I<iIicd--Mlncr's
Cabin Carried Awns-Thc snow
storms Continuing.

Denver Colo, February o.---Information
has been received here by Superintendent
Ridgeway OF the Denver and Rio Grandc
railroad that a snow slide on les line niue
miles east of Glenwood Springs today
came down on top ot work train. wreck
OF the working crew and injuring two
others.
! Killed:
John Mcmahon, roadmastcr, Denver and
Rio Grande, Glenwood Springs.
j. dempsey, section man, Spruce Greek.
| Cole.
j. Mulvihnl, section man. Red Gilt.
Colo.
| Injured,
Charles Hackett, engineer.
Il. II. Carr, fireman.
Il. r. Steele, engineer.
A. Diver, brakeman,
b. H. Berry. car repalrer.
r. Bernard section man.
For time IL was feared the entire crew
were lost, but all have been accounted for,
The snow storm that has ragged with
brief intermissions for more than a week
in Colorado was renewed today with energy
unabated. The snowfall during the later
hours of the night and nearly all day were
heavy, while strong winds piled II up
and filled railroad cuts almost completely
blocking railroad traffic in the mountain
districts.
Snow slides hnve occurred ut several
points. one eighteen miles west of Lead
vile, on Mount Ebert CARRYING down a
miners cabin and burying William Man
ming, aged 60 years. Many mountain towns
are cut of from the world. the only means
OF communication being men on snow
a r,,.l
Ing alarmingly short In many pieces.
Az 1880 o'clock this afternoon the gigan-
tic avalanche shot down the mountain side
on the west slope of tho Colorado railroad
and struck the working gang, thirty-three
In all, at the bottom of the abyss Special
trains were sent to the spot as soon as In
telllgenco reached headquarters In the
meantime moro than 100 men were using
every possible effort to rescue their fellow
beings who were imprisoned In the snow
The slide was about 800 feet in width
but thousands of tons OF ice and snow COON
blocked the railway and made ii impossible
for trains TO pass until a road could be
shoyelcd through tho obstruction.
kilograms were ut first DELAYED on ac-
count Of the carrying away of the wires
When the slide came down. One of the
rescue trains had telegrapher and an
emergency instrument aboard and he soon
established communication with tho out
Nlut NOIIu-
The engine, caboose and rangos were
carried down before the slide and all the
shoyelers who were scattered along tho
track at work were swept before the
mighty weight Trees. rocks and large
blocks of lee. which had been formed on
the side of tho mountain during the winter.
added TO the weight of the avalanche.
Cliffs rise al The side OF the railway track
100 to 200 feet, while the rise Of The noun
tain at the point where the accident oc-
Cured rises 1000 feet almost perpendicu-
larly
At O'Clock this evening Superintendent
semple received partial reports, which
stated that FIVE men were dead and num-
Der seriously injured. There has been no
roll call 10 check up the crew, as the mon
are all scattered.
Tho Rio Grande road is in worse shape
now than before. Snow is piled on the
track at some places twenty feet high. II
Will take hours to open the blockade