Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-03-23
SNOWSL|DES CUT
OFF 600 Miners
FEARED AT LEAST 20 LIVES ARE
LOST AS RESULT OF
AVALANCHES.
STORM IN COLORADO
is WORST IN YEARS


is WORST IN YEARS
Snow 800 Feet Deep in Imogene Basin
- Railroads Blocked and Many
Engines Stalled-Property Losses
Estimated at 100000.
Ou1ay, Col, March 2o.-SiX hundred
miners, employed in the various mines
within a radius OF IL miles from Ou-
ray, have been cut off from all COM
municationS with the outside world
by the snowslides. 1t is feared that
al least 20 miners have lost their
lives in the siues, but the exact num-
Der will not be known Tor Gays. Fully
20 mines are isolated. 1t is said there
is 50 feet OF snow at the high tower
OF the tranway at the Camp Bird mine
at Ouray, and the snow is extremely
deep all along the route of the tram
way. In the lmogene basin the snow
is from $50 to 300 feet deep. This
will prevent work on the reconstruc-
Railroads Almost Blocked.
Alamosa, Col, March 20.-Not since
the snowslides and blockade of the
winter of 1894, when the Denver &
Rio Grande branch road between Ala
mosa and Durango was impossible for
weeks, has there been such trouble
experienced in this region as at the
present No trains have arrived from
Durango for several days, and every
available man is being taken to the
large snowslide on Cumbres hill. Six
dead engines and one OF the big rotary
snow plows are showed in between
this place and Durango. A rotary
snow plow was sent from Salida Mon
day, pushed by three engines
1t has been showing continuously for
seven days in the mountains west and
south of Alamosa and the canyons are
full OF snow and in some places the
tops of tall trees are just visible.
Coal and eatables have been sent from
here to the working crews and goods
are being taken to the snowed-in trains
on Cumbres hill to keep the people
there from starving.
Storm Seems to Be Broken.
Denver, Col, March 20.-Fair wealth
err, with rising temperature, Monday,
followed the severe snowstorm which
has prevailed over Colorado for full
week. with brief intermissions. Sun
day night was one of the coolest of the
winter here, the temperature falling
to five degrees below zero. AT Cheyenne,
Wyo., it was IL degrees below zero.
The losses from destruction of mine
property in the vicinity of Ouray may
amount to 81 100000, and further dam
age is threatened at Ouray, Telluride,
Rico. Silverton and other mining
camps. The main transcontinental lines
have been kept open, and through train
service has not been much delayed
during the storm. The heavy snowfall
in the mountains insures an abundance
of water for irrigation.
Chicago Snowbound.
Chicago. March 20.-Chicago Monday
found herself almost snowbound, after
weeks of springlike weather. A storm
wave of magnitude unprecedented in
recent years in March, sweeping over
almost half the territory in the United
States, ragged through the streets OF
this city. Traffic was seriously ham
pered by the sticky coating in the
streets. Citizens remained indoors all
day, unless driven by unavoidable con-
tingencies into the streets. Incoming
passenger trains on nearly all roads
were late from one to five hours. Late
in the day reports of damages sus-
tanned in various parts of the country
especially of wires broken down by the
storm, were received, and it was
feared that communication with some
parts of the country would be entire
ly cut Off.
Storm Stops Business.
Decatur, ILL.,, March 20.-Eighteer
inches of snow fell between nine
o'clock Sunday night and noon Mon.
Gay This is the heaviest snow fall
ever known here. All business is sus-
pended. Street car and interurban lines
were blockaded until after noon
There were no passenger trains or
some railroads No trains on any road
moved without two locomotives. One
train with four locomotives on the
& Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton line
was stuck in the drifts six miles eas
of Decatur.
Heavy Storm in St. Louis.
st, Louis, March 20.-A heavy snow
storm, which began Sunday night, Sc
riously hampered traffic of all kind
Monday, and the forecast issued Mon
day morning predicted more snow ant
a minimum temperature of Is or /,
degrees above zero, with brisk north
west minds. Al nine a. m. the snow
fall was nine inches, and it was thel
showing hard
Mistake in Signal Causes Wreck.
Rockford, H., March 20.-C. E
Davis, n stockman of Sioux City, Ia.
was killed, and Brak.m E. NJ. Crum
ney, of MILWAUKEE, WIS injured in
collision of two freight trains on In
st. Paul road at Davis Junction Tn
collision was due to mistake in sig
mails.