The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
TRAINS FAST In THE SNOW
HUGE DRIFTS IN WYOMING, COLORA-
DO AND NEBRASKA.
Rotary and Wedge Ployys Striving to
SuccOr Passengers by Clearing
the Tracks.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. a0-After rag
Ing with relentless fury for thirty-six hours
the blizzard subsidized early to-day. The
wind continues to blow, however, and the
snow is being piled in huge banks. The
Union Pacific is snow-bound between Chey-
enne and Sydney. where a number Of pas
senger and mail trains are tied up. The
storm conferred between Hillsdale and Pine
Bluffs and there the company's rotary and
wedge plows are battling with the big
banks OF snow. From Cheyenne west the
road is open but trains are running far be-
hind schedule time and it is necessary TO
run rotary plows ahead of each train.
Nothing has been heard from the Centen-
NAL stage that started out from Laramie
yesterday morning. There have been no
reports of lives stock lost
DENVER, Col, Dec. 20.-While Denver
was enjoying a calm. mild winter day there
was raging within few miles of the city
one of the worst snow and windstorms
since the great storm of 1895. The blizzard
was general to-day throughout eastern
Colorado and Wyoming and western Ne
braska and Kansas. The average snow fall
was eleven inches, and a fOrty-five-mile
wind blowing across the prairie piled the
snow in huge drifts. Last night the Colo
enne stuck in nine-foot drift on Buckhorn
hill and was soon covered with drifting
snow. One hundred miners from Sunrise
dug II out. Colorado Springs reports that
no trains got in or out of that city on the
Rock Island Railroad last night, and to-day
every snow pillow owned by the company in
Colorado and western Kansas was burrow-
ing through the snow. In the vicinity of
Limon, Col, the tracks were buried under
drifts from three to thirteen feet.
HUGO, Col, Dec. 20.-The worst blizzard
in ten years has been raging here for the
last thirty hours. and although the sky is
clearing the wind is still blowing a gale.
A passenger train due In Denver at
o'clock this morning is blockaded at Lake
siding, fourteen miles from here. and one
or two trains are reported off the track at
Limon. The storm is a particularly bad one
for stock on the ranges, as cattle are in
poor condition, and it is feared that the
losses will be heavy. One band of 1900
sheep is reported lost three miles west of
Hugo. A Kansas City commission firm
had LOO head of cattle on the way from
the southern part of the county TO ship
from Hugo Tomorrow and the men in
charge of this herd were compelled TO turn
the cattle loose on the prairie This will
occasion a heavy loss, as il will take many
weeks to regather the herd and many of
the cattle will no doubt perish in the
storm.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.-Peculiar storm con-
ditions prevailed simultaneously in the four
quarters of st. Louis this evening. In
the eastern portion rain poured in tor
rents. in the southern portion sleet mingled
with rain, in the northern portion hail fell
and in the western portion there was snow.
Vivid lightning and heavy thunder pre-
coded the storm, which lasted about half
an hour.
LINCOLN, Neb., Dec 20.-The lines OF
the Chicago. Burlington e. Quincy and the
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri River Valley
railroads in northwest Nebraska are block
AIDED with snow. All over that part of the
State storm has ragged necessarily since
yesterday noon and snow is piled many feet
Deep. The storm is moving east.