Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-03-25
Deep Snow in Northeastern Colora-
do as Well as In Nebraska and
Wyoming.
MANY TRAINS SN0WBOUND.
The Union Pacific the Principal Sufferer
Several Trains in Snow Blockade on
Sherman Hill and at 0gallala,
Nebraska.

been the southern edge of fierce biz
zard raging in northeastern Colorad
and along the Union Pacific in Wyo
mir, and NDr ~. Several train
were blocked on Sherman hill yester
day, but got through to Cheyenne las
night. Four passenger trains wer
snow bound at Ogallala, Neb., with so
people on board
THE STORM CREATES HAVOC.
Birmingham, Ala, March 25.-A ter
rife wind and rain storm passed ovel
Birmingham and vicinity about II
o'clock this morning. doing much dam.
age, the extent Of which is not YET
known, owing to the demoralized con-
dition of the telephone and telegraph
wires. A large number of houses are
reported blown down in the southwest
ern section of the city, and one report
says that 1000 persons were hurt. The
entire police force, the fire department,
and all ambulances in the city, together
with scores of surgeons, have been
summoned to the scene. The same
SlOIIu swept over llOIludlC, sCNSii ihilSt'
east of here, and it is said practically
destroyed the business part of the town.
Seven men are reported killed there,
and many injured. Pratt City also suf-
fered much, the public school building
being unroofed, and the First Method
list church having its steeple blown off.
Many negro cabins were wrecked and
a number of people hurt. North Br-
mingham and other suburbs also suf-
fered The wind blew a fearful gale,
falling.
The reporter of the Birmingham
News, who went to Irondale to inves-
tigate the storm damage, telephoned at
o'clock this afternoon that three per-
sons were killed at that place and ten
injured. Half dozen stores were blown
down. In Birmingham the death list
stood at fifteen at p. m. The total
number injured is not known.
Up to noon to-day it is estimated that
the killed number twenty-five, includ-
ing seven at Irondale, and about fifteen
at Birmingham, and others in suburb
an towns Among the known dead are:
DR.. G. c. Chapman, prominent physi-
clan of this city; Mrs. Robert J. Lowe,
wife of the chairman of the state Dem
ocratic committee and infant son, and
J. Alexander, a merchant, and ten 9TH
ers.
FIFTY DEAD.
Kansas City, Mo-, March 25.--A dis
patch received at the general offices of
the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Mem
phis railroad in this city at 3:15 this
afternoon, from an agent of that road
at Birmingham. Ala, says that up to
that time 6 p. m.) fifty dead bodies had
been recovered at Irondale, which town
is described as almost wrecked In
view of the former dispatches the above
is not credited.
THE STORM IN ILLINOIS.
Mattoon, ILL.,, March 25.-A terrific
hail and wind storm passed over this
section last night, doing great damage
to property and the early crops
THE TRAINS RELIEVED.
Omaha, Neb., March 25.-The Union |
that the four passenger trains snow
bound most of the day yesterday and
last night in the vicinity Of Ogalala, |
Neb., have been relieved, and are max |
ing headway in both directions. Several |
snow plows last night cleared the |
tracks between the North Platte and |
Julesburg. The storm has abated, and |
the danger of further blockade is be-
ieved to have passed. President Burt /
and party, whose car was attached to
caught in the drift left Cheyenne
shortly after midnight. The storm CEN
er was apparently at Ogalalla, where
he temperature has risen, and live L
stock interests will not suffer. The
storm this morning is moving north
westerly
TRAINS RELIEVED.
Omaha, Neb., March 25.-Five freight
rains are still stalled near North
Platte. The Union Pacific people say
season.
SUNSHINE FOLLOWS STORM.
Denver, Colo, March 25-The storm
which ragged in Colorado and Wyoming
and last night has passed
away, and under the bright sunshine
he snow is fast disappearing. The
weather has not been very cold, and 1t
s not believed that range stock suffered
much. Railroad traffic, which was bad-l
y interfered with yesterday, resumed
conditions.
A RAILWAY PRESIDENT SNOW
BOUND.
Omaha, Neb., March 25.-Horace G..
Burt, president of the Union Pacific
and other Union Pacific ofh- |
,ials, are in a train stalled in a snow |
bank near Ogallala, being caught in the |
blizzard raging in western Nebraska |
and in Colorado and Wyoming.
TRAFFIC DELAYED.
Denver, March 25.-Railroad traffic Is |
still very much delayed, all trains from |
the east being reported from six to |
eight hours late. The trains from the |
west are off time. The Chicago Com
mercial club, scheduled to arrive here |
at o'clock tonight, will not reach the
city until tomorrow morning, having |
been delayed several hours by the |
burning Of bridge on the Rio Grande |
Western near Deseret, Utah.