The Elbert County tribune., 1913-12-12
|SHOvELERS CLEAR
SNOW IN DENVER
BACK OF COLORADO STORM 10
BROKEN AND STREET CARS
RUN AGAIN.
MINER CAUGHT IN SLIDE
THREATENED HALF MILLION
LOSS TO WESTERN STOCK
MEN PASSED.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Storm In Brief.

Forty-five and two -tenths inches of
ure-establishing record for both city
and state.
The city faces a coal and food famine
through inability of wagons to pene-
trate drifts.
Work of digging Denver out of drifts
starts this morning. Traffic is at
standstilL Portions of Broadway, FIJI
teepth and Sixteenth streets are only
part of the city's thoroughfares that
are cleared.
to First avenue and Broadway since
Thursday afternoon.
State storm bound, and all railroad
traffic suspended. Railroads promise
renewal of schedules today
Hundreds of men and women spend
second night in down town hotels. un-
able to reach dwellings.
Denver, Dec. S.-Thousands of shor-
els tearing at the heart of the drifts
turned the edges of Denver's snow
blanket. Traffic on the East Colfax,
Berkeley. Stout street and Broadway
lines of the Tramway company either
has been resumed or will be resumed,
and the principal downtown streets
have been opened to travel.
Snow banks, varying in depth from
three to ten feet, however, still stand
as barriers between the center OF the
city and its outlying districts.
hundreds of miles of streets have
not been traversed, except on foot,
since the storm began to vent its worst
fury Thursday. The greater part of
the Tramway's tracks remain to be un-
covered.
A coal famine is imminent. 1t is es-
timated that 10000 families are with
out fuel. and though the highway de-
partment is expending every effort to
clear the way for the wagons which
are to bring relief, it is declared Tues
day will elapse before the fuel COM
panies will be able to make domestic
deliveries
Urgent need of milk and provisions
in hospitals and in residences. where
sick are sheltered. was supplied by
men on horseback and by sleighs.
Train service into and out of Den
yer, demoralized since early Thursday,
was restored between Denver, Omaha,
Chicago and western points Saturday
night through the resumption of traf.
fic on the northern lines of the Union
Pacific and Burlington railroads and
the clearing of the snow blockade on
the Denver & Rio Grande at Monu-
ment
Hundreds of persons are still un.
able to reach their homes in the out
laying sections and are still quartered
in the hotels. which have sheltered
them since Thursday night.
Saturday marked the break in the
storm which has held Colorado. Un-
der smiling skies tho buoyant spirit
of the state asserted itself and the
true Colorado smile beamed again.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been cdded to the value of the
winters grain crop. and moisture that
means smiling fields next summer has
been left in reservoirs.
Greeley.--About Greeley and the
northern part of the state the temp
perature mounted and danger that
threatened half million loss to the
sheep and cattle men passed. Stock is
in no danger. Trains are moving
slowly and another "a hours will see
the entire snow blockade lifted.
Littleton.-Snow crushed in the roof
of the Littleton Milling and Water
Power Company. causing loss of
$500 and wrecked completely two ice
houses owned by John d. Meyers, at
loss of $4,000 An Interurban car
Friday night turned over on its side
near the Brookside dairy, and nine
passengers were thrown through the
windows into drifts seven feet deep.
They pulled themselves out after two
hours work, and waded three miles to
their homes. Many Littleton persons
are still marooned in Denver. Several
reached Littleton after spending 40
making the 10-mile journey from Den
yer. Snow is four feet on the level in
Littleton and the streets in the bust
ness section are drifted seven feet.
San Juan.-In the San Juan country
the warmer weather has carried with
1t the dreaded menace of the slides
The slides are running" was the
warning sent out.
Silverton Harry Castle, a miner,
was swept to his death in snowslide
at Silverton and his body has not been
recovered, although the entire force
of the Buffalo Boy mine, where the
slide occurred, is searching for it in
the bottom 4 gulch eight miles north
west of Silverton.
Thousands of dollars in property
damage, estimated at from s4v0. 900 to
s5oo.o00. has been wrought and an un.
certain toll in>life in outlying sections
of the state has been taken.
All records for snowfall and precrpi.
tation have been shattered