Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-23
TRAINS IN GREAT DANGER.
Railronds suffer Heaylly by th
storm In Colorado.

.Railronds suffer Heavily by the
storm I'm Colorado.
Denver, Nov. 90. Thrilling stories are
told by the train crews and passengers
of wild rides thru the binding torrent of
sand, without orders, expecting at every
moment to crash upon other trains in
the darkness. The sand and gravel,
driven with great fury, broke out the.
glass in all coaches. demolished the
headlights and left the trains absolutely
helpless so far as light was concerned.
an important feature when they were
running blindly on the time of other
trains. Engineers say the torrent of
sand was SO dense that they could not
see the snlokestack.
In addition to this peril, there were
damaged bridges over mighty canons to
be considered. The trains We're halted
at the bridge approaches and member
| of the train crew crawled ahead to see
| IL it were still standing. In one case
this required an hour. and the scout was
utterly exhausted when he returned,
\ having crawled a mile on his hands and
/ knees.
Communication was opened up with
\ Colorado Springs today. and dispatches
from there say the city has passed thru
1.-the most frightful ordeal in its history.
1 The losses to property there amount to
100000, divided as follows: Business
section of the town. $4,000; Colorado
A Telephone Company, $4,000: Electric
A Power Company, 10000. Western I'm
4 ion, $4,000; Colorado and Philadelphia
4 I.Reduction works, 100000; balance scat
f!tering.
q The Ell Paso National bank, Durkee
Il 9ft
thigh school, postoffice, Antler's livery
Istable, Colorado Springs Transfer Com
4 pany, and mining exchange exchange
buildings, all in the center of the city,
have roofs torn off or badly damaged
and wreckage blockades the principal
!. streets. Plate glass windows all over
. the city are shattered and the loss II
+ these alone will amount to many thou
!. sands of dollars.
From outlying section Of the city re.
llSports have come of destruction of man.
!, small dwelling houses. In Ivy Wild, {
s suburb. Smiths green house was blowr
i down and burned. There were about
) dozen alarms of fire during the day ant
night Firemen did valiant service an
: prevented the spread of flames.
{ The public schools were able to resum
Z during the day, altho many Of the schoo
. buildings were badly damaged. Preser
I vation OF life was undoubtedly assiste
> by the action OF electrical companies i
4 I-ahutting down all their plants at 2. j
. m. yesterday, and later8by the work q
! the linemen in severing all main lin
. wires thru the city
@ Between Durango and Alamosa wller
the Rio Grande had trouble with 1t
trains Wednesday, the snowstorm ha
4 passed and trains are being moved wit
n reasonable promptness. But that was a
e entirely different storm from the on
+ (which devastated Colorado Springs an
the country between there and Pueblo.
The little Information obtainable in ii
vicinity of Pueblo is that the high win
IS has extended south to the New Mexie
iline, east beyond La Junta, north
is Palmer Lake and west to salida. 4
81 Cuchara and Rouse wires We're tor
= down. Two box cars were blown off Il
e- track at Rouse.
IN. The storm stands without parall
es lin many respects Former severe wine
10 storms have been accompanied VII
n either rain or snow but in this case
~ was neither. and the wind carried san
AZ gravel and small stones, similar to Z
"a awful sandstorms of the desert. It VI
! remarkable and unlike any past storr
in the scope OF territory covered, L
terminating at the foothills seemingl
: !, Cripple Greek and the district surroun
- ing was basking in bright. clear weath
In similar to that OF Denver. yesterday.