The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1906-11-22
News Here That in Some Sec
tons Of Territory, Food
and Fuel is Scarce
NO TRAFFIC TODAY
Train Se1It6 Is Vel Badly Crippled, but Is
Thought Can Be Resumed Tomorrow,
Denver Only Train In.

After bonding every possible Of.
fort since Sunday towards clcarine
the tracks, every road into Amarillo
lopod 70 restore trains today to a
semblancc OF schedule. Tho wide
area covered by The storm gave ey-
cry division troubles enough OF lts
own and no help could be sent To
other divisions The Amarillo
yards wore without snow p'ows
and had almost to wait with hands
down il Che divisions beyond hcyc
,lc7rcd their tracks and broke a
way IN here.
Denver Into Snow Drift.
The Denver, owing TO The fact
that it has 10 deal with snow as M
ordinary problem in us mountain
1ivisions was prepared 10 cope with
the situation aand was he first to
operate trains. The severe strain
OF tho big double headers buclling
the drifts on frozen rails brough.
the north hound to giiof yesterday
evening, This train, which belong
ca tcETondavs eohodul@ left Auia
rillo at shout 1880 yesterday even
Ing, Two big engines were pulling
the train so as 10 so through any
drifts that might be left on the
tracks.
in tho cut beyond The lake west
Of town tho second car from the
engines left tho tracks on the outer
edge of the curve and pulled the
remainder Of The train. except tho
rear Pullman, off after It. Fortu-
natoly tho drawhcad between tho
baggage car aud the engines broke
away from tho train, four coach
lengths on the ties and and finally
pitched over on thoir sides against
a snow drift The car windows were
shattered, the lamps went ont and
The occupants were thrown in heap
against tho sides of tho cars. For
tun7tely no one suffered any injury
from the wreck and after few
minutes the passengers trudged
back into town and are stopping
over in Amarillo Among the pas
scngers were win Carruthers Of
Amarillo. d. b. lin of Dalhart and
who is interested in Panhandle. land.
suffer ~ in New Mexico.
The first train on the Peocs Val
Icy since Saturday got into Amarillo
Ibis morning about $3.50. This
morning a mixed train returned and
It Is thought that tomorrow regu-
l1r traffic from the north can be re-
sumed.
From reports brought from Tex
leo aud Portales, it seems likely that
The storm there has caused real
danger. suffering and probably loss
OF life II was reported at Portales
said Mr.. Iii Murrel OF
Wichita, Kan. at the Elmhirst this
chat three people had
been frozen to death on tho prai-
rio In tho Portales country. One of
these was a man on a sheep ranch
who had been burned In fighting the
fire Saturday. You see last week,
q prairie fire burned off strip
north Of Portalos fifty miles wide
and one hundred and fifty miles
long. This fire will cause serious
cattle and sheep losses, especially
the latter. Many sheep suffered
from the fire and we're run to death
Or nearly so,
No Coal at PorIaIes.
"There is no coal to be had atI
portales and tile question OF fuel
has become desperate. Flour was
nearly exhausted hut I hear that
zone was sent down by express this
so there will be no dan
ger from that source. large num-
ser Of homesteaders had settled IN
The Portales country last summer
md their flimsy shacks are no pro-
lection against such a storm. None
IF them have any fuel TO speak oil
md this storm viii find many OF
.dem wholly without fuel It was
'umored yesterday that two Of these
lomesieaders had been frozen to