The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-03
Sweeps Down on a ID. & II. G.
Work Train
While the Men Were Trying tC
Clear the Track
EAST OF GLENWOOD
Three Killed, Six Injured and
Train Wrecked.
Snow is Piled 90 Feet High on
the Track.

Denver, Feb. Authorization has been
received by Superintendent Ridgeway
of the Denver & Rio Grande road that
a snowsIide on its line nine miles east
of GIenwood Springs came down on top
of a work train, wrecking the engine
and cars and killing three of the wreck
ing crew and injuring six Others
The work train had been sent to clear
away the snow-blocked tracks east OF
Glenwood and was plowing when the
slide came and buried the workmen.
For some time it was feared that the
entire crew of thirty-two men was lost,
but all have been accounted for to
Superintendent Ridgeway.
Following is the list of killed and in
jured:
Killed:
JOHN M'MAHON, roadmaster D. &
r. G.. Glenwood Springs, Col.
]. DEMPSEY, section man, Spruce
J. MULVYHIIL, section man, Red
Cliffe, Col
Injured:
Charles Hackett, engineer, Grand
Junction, Col; head injured.
T. H. Carr, fireman, Grand Junction;
head injured.
r. B. Steele, engineer, Grand Junction,
hand burned.
A. Diver, brakeman, Grand Junction;
back hurt.
G. H. Grick. car repairer, Minturn,
Col; head hurt.
b. Bernard, section man, Gypsum,
Col: hurt internally.
All employed by the Denver & RIO
Grande and assisting in clearing the
track at the time of the slide.
The Rio Grande road is in worse
shape now than before. Snow is piled
on the track in some places twenty feet
high. 1t will take hours to open the
blockade.
GREAT LOSS OF STOCK.
. oTd
seems to have spent it's fury in Wyom-
ing and it is thought the worst is over.
No idea of the probable loss of stock
on the ranges can yet be given, but it
is the opinion of the best informed
stockmen that the losses will be found
to be great. No wind of sufficient power
to blow the deep SHOWS off the feeding
grounds has prevailed, and as conSe-
quence, it is argued, the cattle and
sheep which have not been driven to
cover and fed are bound to have per-
ished in great numbers. For the stock
which has been uncared for and which
has survived the unprecedented snow
and cold little hope is held out. Stock
men say the loss will be greater in
sheep than in cattle, as the cattle are
mostly cared for in pastures and around
ranches where they can be fed. Most
of the large herds that formerly roamed
on the range have been disposed of.
The Union Pacific has been quite sue
cessful in keeping it's track clear
through this division, and although
abandoned the passenger trains have
been but little delayed.
STARVATION IMMINENT.
Denver, Colo, Feb. 3.-The snow
storm that has ragged with brief inter-
missions for more than a week in Colo
rado was renewed yesterday with
energy unabated. The snowfall dur
ing the later hours of the night and
strong winds piled it up and filled rail-
road cuts, almost completely blocking
railroad traffic in the mountain dis
trict.
points, one eighteen miles west of Lead
Vile on Mount Elbert, carrying down
miners cabin and burying William
Manning. aged so years.
Many mountain towns are cut off
from the world, the only means of COM
munication 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
Breckenridge, Como, Dillon and other
points around the first named camp,
was successfully accomplished by the
Colorado & Southern railroad today at
noon, when citizens armed with shovels
cleared off the South Park tracks to
the depot in Breckenridge and a much
battered supply train crawled into the
town-the first inside of three weeks
The situation at Breckenridge was be-
coming critical.
Food was becoming scarce; the gro
ceries kept in the store were at low ebb.
Rolled oats and breakfast foods were
being fed to horses and stock. Hay
yesterday could not be purchased for
love nor money. Oats were worth their
weight in gold. Miners, prospectors,
mill men and timber cutters were com
Ing in from the surrounding hills, beg
ging provisions. Breckenridge was a
spot in a sea of snow. Slides in all di-
rections made the roads leading into
the camps impossible. The supply train
included several freight cars, loaded
with hay, grain, coal, beef, flour and
groceries sufficient to last about two
weeks. Tt took nine hours to make the
run from Como to Breckenridge-thir
four miles.
At Leadville the supply of coal is so
small that a forced shut down of mines
and smelters is threatened.
81 BELOW AT DEADWOOD.
Deadwood, S. D., Feb. 3.-Bitter cold
prevails in this section, the worst of
the winter. The thermometer in Dead
wood registers 81 below zero.
1O00 SNnW Cu0urrEnC