The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-03-05

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No time was lost by Mr.. Cotton IN
getting preparations iu progress to start
ont a fresh working force. Men were
engaged in sboveling snow in the rail
road yard and cleaning the track down
the grade all Sunday afternoon. Dur
ing Monday and Tuesday a number OF
men following their separate vocations
were kept busy repairing the engines
and snow pillow, fitting box cars for the
new force of men to be employed to
clear the track between here and Pali'
SADIE.
On Wednesday morning at s o'clock
arrangements for q fresh start having
been completed, Conductor Crowley
gave the signal, and the train, consist.
iug Of three engines. a snow plow. two
box cars and the regular mail car again
pulled ont. The box cars were supplied
with sleeping and cooking accommoda-
lions and an ample stock Of food wac
provided for five days rations. The
force at this time, in charge Of section
foreman Griffin, consisted Of 90 able
, bodied men Ia addition to the train
hands. John McKernan accompanied
the force as telegraph operator, with in
structions to tap the wires and report
the progress of the train.
Three days after leaving Eureka Con-
ductor Crowley sent the following dis
patch from Pine Station to Supt. Cotton;
Wind started last night and is now
blowing q gale; the men are working
faithfully. but progress is slow. l have
walked from Pine nearly to Alpha; the
snow is from one to 20 feet deep the en-.
tire distance, which will all have to be
shoveled out, as it is packed so hard
| with gravel that it would tea my pillow
to pieces. Should / reach Alpha in time
this afternoon l will push on to Mineral
or to the Hay Ranch tonight. Have
no hope of making Palisade to-day.
The Blockade Raised
From the SENTINEL of February 8, 1890
After Is days Of continuous work the
Eureka & Palisade railway track was
cleared, and the train arrived here with
the blockade raised and about so sacks
OF mail last Wednesday afternoon. They
reported having had a very hard time CT
it. After leaving Eureka on the second
trip to open the blockade the train ar
rived at Horse Shoe Bend and from there
to where the snow pillow and engines
we're wrecked, south OF Alpha. the snow
was deep the whole distance. The cuts
we're filed and the snow piled up in
drifts from two to 20 feet deep. Where
the wreck occurred last Sunday week the
men had a hard siege shoveling the snow
that had blown into the cut and drifted
from two to Is feet deep. When nearly
through the cut 1t was thought that the
train could be forced through the re.
mainder, but the snow had packed so
hard that when it made the run for that
purpose the pillow stuck, with the sudden
shock the goose neck draw bar. which
connected No. 8 engine with the pillow,
broke, and the former drove forward
| over the latter and landed the full length
Of the engine beyond the pillow on top Of
the snow, remaining in an upright posi-
ton, but canting over slightly, and there
il stood for the time being. Engine No.
4 ran up on top Of the ploy and the
latter was crushed to pieces. The eDgi-
neers and firemen jumped from the en-
gines. Fortunately no one was hurt.
A. S. Longley was ordered up from Pail
SADIE, and he left there with a force Of %
men, taking along also jack screws and
a general wrecking outfit.
Mr.. Cotton had ordered that some Of
the men from the train should be sent to
the Hay Ranch to help clear the track
from that point towards the wreck, and
at s O'Clock on Tuesday morning, Jan.
%, Conductor Crowley, with 10 men
who volunteered to 60 with him. started
out afoot. The distance was 81 miles
Van Po~ell and William Olson gave GU
at Mineral station and remained there
The balance of the party continued thei
journey, the last of them arriving at the
Hay Ranch at IL o'clock at night. Dur
ing the tramp, which was performed
under the greatest hardships. seven gu
CT the nine men had their feet frost bit
t~en-Frank Wilson and Dave Jone
badly, and the others slightly. Tn,
latter were Mr.. Crowley, Ed Phillips
Tom Davis, Harry Jackson and F. L
Smith. William Giles and Patsy Greer
we're Of the party f; the former was nearl,
exhausted, but the latter, with admirs
energy and fortitude, stood the tril
nobIy, first taking the lead and anon re
turning to help out his companions. Blu
for this young hero some Of the part,
might have persisted, as they had to b
tbumped and kicked to keep them from
lying on the snow and going to sleep
Harry Jackson is also highly spoken @
as having led the ~stragglers Of the party
On arriving at the Hay Ranch the sui
ferers of the party received from Judd
Riddle all the attention that could hav
been paid them.
When A. S. Longley arrived at tn
wreck the forward engine stood full,
four feet above the track on hard snow
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