The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1911-12-28
BIG SNOW NOTHING But
LIGHT FROST COMPARED
TO KENWORTHY'S STORM

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Yesterdays storm was nothing
more than a light frost, compared %
one that fell in this country during
the winter of 1Ss5-S6, according to
old-timers. Nothing like it has ever
fallen before or since, they say.
]. D. Kenworthy, local ageat for the
Rio Grande. remembers this storm.
very distinctly. 4 put in eight days
at Dodge City, Kansas. and the Incl
dents of that sreow storm are inde,-
libly stamped lpon my mind, said
Mr.. Kenworthy yesterday. He was
travelling auditor of the Santa Fe and
happened to be on one of the eleven
passenger trains that were tied up for
eight days and seven nights at Dodge
City.
Along the right of way as far as
the eye could see, were thousands of
cattle, which had drifted with the
storm The storm had come down
from the north. carrying everything
as It went. For5six weeks it had been
showing. EACH snow remained and
eventually whsp The big storm came
all traffic was tied up.
at Las Animas there were thou
sands of sheep which had drifted
against the north right of way fence.
They were piled so high that they
toppled over onto the right of way in
one place to the depth of perhaps 81
feet. AS the wind kept blowing gale
from the north the cattle and sheep
moved on in the breast of the storm
trying to reach water and place of
refuge When they struck the fence,
there they were blocked
"On one of the marooned trains was
an old couple en- route to Los Angeles
to see their dying son. While tied NJ
there the husband received a tele-
gram stating that the son had died.
The wife was troubled with heait
failure and the news could not be
borne to her for some time. Another
marooned passenger was young
man en- route to Buffalo, y. Y, to be
married. The day on which he was
supposed to be one of the parties at
this Important event. was spent with
us at Garden City. That fellow GER
tainly was down in the mouth.
Eighteen or twenty dead bodies
were taken out of the snow drifts
where the homesteaders had perished
trying to reach places of refuge from
the storm. There never was another
storm in this western country either
before or since TO equal that one"
declared Mr.. Kenworthy.
During those eight days we were
there social functions were arranged
to spend the time. l remember one
very well. On certain day the Ia
dies invited the gentlemen to dinner
in the dining car. At the appointed
hour we all appeared each with pie
plate. These were turned over to the
ladies with our names and addresses.
A few weeks later each received their
pie plates with a snow scene at
Dodge City painted on them. Imagine
our feelings at receiving these re-
minders Of our Imprisonment. The
railroad company fed all Of us at
the hotel and in twenty-four hours
more there would not have been
thing in that town to eat We got out
just in time to keep from starving.
zone passenger train seven miles
east of Dodge City was absolutely
buried in the snow. 1t had been un-
able to reach Dodge City and actually
had to be dug out. Passage ways were
cut in the snow to allow the passen-
gers to leave the submerged train"
concluded Mr.. Kenworthy.-Pueblo
Chieftain.
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