Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-01-30


ing many lines of the Colorado rail-
roads but most of the passenger trains
stuck in drifts at remote sidings or
small, stations have been reached and
all the passengers are being cared for.
The Rio Grande broke its three days
blockade on the Cumbers Pass yester-
day and released the snow-bound Du-
range passenger train. The Rio
GraRde Southern is still badly blocked
at places. It will probably be week
or more before the line to Telluride
is Open The Silyerton line opened
last night after a ten days blockade.
Some drifts cut through were forty
feet deep. Trainloads of supplies and
fuel are being rushed to Silverton,
which has been close to famine. Two
passenger trains on the Leadville line
of the Colorado & Southern are snow
bound at Boreas station, on the top OF
the range. The weather in the noun
tains has cleared but it is still in
tensely cold.
HIGH WINDS AND FIRE
CAUSE BIG DAMAGE
Dallas, Tex. Jan. 30.-The damage
from fire and the havoc wrought from
the high winds during the last two
days in Texas and Oklahoma, is es-
timated to be 100000. In two days
there were 21 fire alarms here and
at Houston, twelve. A number of
residences burned Four residences
burned at Grand Saline. At Bison,
Okla, the grain elevator burned, and
in the oil fields near Tulsa a num-
ber of derricks were leveled. Fifty
derricks are down at Keifer. In the
Te 4.e Panhandle the sand stoSm was
terrific. The gale has been followed
by cold wave which embraces the
entire southern country from Kansas
to southern Texas and extends into
New Mexico.
FIRE DRIVES FAMILIES
OUT INTO THE COLD
New York, Jan. 30.-The center of
the western blizzard reached this city
today. Accompanied by a high wind,
succeeding rainfall throughout last
night heavy fall of wet snow filled
the streets with slush. All city trans
portation is delayed except the sub
way. Numerous accidents and fire
in the tenement houses in Brooklyn
drove families into the streets.
TWENTY FEET DRIFTS
IN MICHIGAN
Benton Harbor, Mich, Jan. 30.-As
the result of blizzard the traffic in
this section of Michigan has been al
most entirely suspended. Snow drifts
in some instances are twenty feet
deep.
CYcLoNIc WINDS BADLY
BRIGHTEN OkLAHOMANS
Muskogee, Okla, Jan. 30.-Great
damage was done throughout the
greater part of Oklahoma by a ter
rifle windstorm that swept over the
state for the last "A hours. Business
is practically at standstill as the
people have stayed indoors. Thou
sands are panic-stricken by fear of
injury or death from falling wire
poles, an endless number of which
were levelled to the ground by the
unprecedented gale. The storm has
now evidently spent it's force.
BIG FIRE LOSSES.
Oklahoma City, Okla, Jan. 30-Fan.
ned by 64 mile gale, seven fires in
as many sections of this city, yester,
day, destroyed property Valued at
100000.
KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE
LIKEWISE HAVE BLIZZARD
| Louisville, KY, Jan. 3O.-Kentucky
and other parts Of the south, which
yesterday felt the touch of winter
today are in the clutches of a genu
inc Blizzard. Snow has fallen through
out Kentucky and Tennessee and the
temperature has dropped to around
twelve above zero. All trains are de-
layed.