Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-20
81 SEVERE SNOW STORM
High Wind Causes Snow to Drift Con-
siderably But Temperature Remains
Moderate-Fair and Colder Tuesday
s.-center of Storm Now over the
Ohio Valley.

Ouray, Colo, March 19.-Six hun
dred miners employed in various
mines within a radius of twenty miles
from Ouray have been cut of from all
communication with the outside world
by snow slides. 1t is feared that as
many as twenty miners have lost their
lives in the slides but the exact num-
ber will not be known for several
days. twenty-five mines are COM
pletely isolated and the damage may
reach $1,0O0,000.
Camp Bird Isolated.
AT the Camp Bird mine snowslide
last night completely isolated fifty or
more miners employed there and as
the provision house was carried away
1t is certain that they are in urgent
need OF food. A party of 200 miners
started to their rescue this morning.
It is said there is sixty feet of snow
ut High Tower of the tramway of
Camp Bird, and the snow is very deep
all along the route of the tramway. In
The Imogene basin the snow is 800 feet
deep. This will prevent the work on
reconstruction of the tramway for sew
eral weeks.
SnoW Slide at Telluride.
Telluride, Col, March ia snow
slide, which came down yesterday at
Liberty Bell mine, damaged the upper
terminal of the tramway and consider
able of the trestle works. Many miners,
remembering the terrible slide of four
years ago, left the mine today and
came to Telluride. On account Of the
severity of the storm which still con-
tinues, no effort has been made to re-
{ cover the body of August Helene, who
was killed Saturday by the slide near
Bear Creek.
The telephone line to Ophir station
Is cut off and the fate of the engine
and fianger crew, hemmed in by the
slides near Ophir loop, is not known.
Slides are down all along the road to
Red Mountain and the storm continues
SO that it is impossible to get through.
Heaviest of Season.
Chicago, ILL.,, March 19.-The North
western, middlewestern and south.
western states today are enveloped in
the severest snow storm of the season
with consequent interruption to. street
car and railroad travel. Snow fell
throughout the night and many states
reaching depth of a foot and is still
falling.
The storm was accompanied by q
high wind causing the snow to drift
considerably, but the temperature re
mains moderate. West of the Missis
sippi river the mercury is again fall
Ing and unreasonable cold weather
prevails in the Rocky Mountain re
gion.
According to weather bureau predic
tions the temperature will fall east o
the Missouri valley tonight, but will
rise in the northwest The center O
the storm is now over the Ohio VALLEY
and fair weather in the middle west
ern states is the outlook for tomorrow
Heavy Snow at Decatur.
Decatur, ILL.,, March Fighter
inches of snow fell between 9 O'CLOCK
last night and noon today, the heavi
est fall ever known here.
All business was suspended anC
street car and interurban lines were
blockaded until this afternoon. There
are no passenger trains today on some
of the railroads. One train with foul
locomotives on the Cincinnati, Hamil
ton & Dayton line is stuck in thu
drifts six miles east of Decatur.
Local Conditions.
Winter is being felt in real earnes
these days by the citizens of Ottumw;
and Wapello county A continuation
of the wintry weather promised th,
middle of last week has come AM
from the present indications expect
to remain here for an indefinit,
period. While the atmosphere is no
bitterly cold,> the prevailing snoy
makes traffic very difficult and sufi
ciently makes up for the lack of reall,
cold weather. The weather thus ia
the present month has been as sever
as any previous period of the winter
although no very serious tie-aps in tn
operation Of railroads, street cars, tels
phone and telegraph service have bee,
felt.
Trains from the west are running
little behind time. but those from tn
east are practically not affected by tn
snow. The street cars have been rur
ming almost according to schedule
The storm is not severe enough to al
feet the telegraph and telephone SCI
vice.
The snow fall since yesterday norr
4 ing IS estimated at the local weathe
station at two inches The tempers
ture this morning at z o'clock wa
& twenty-six degrees above zero aud a