Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-12-19
'SH0VELERS CLEAR
SNOW IN DENVER
BACK OF COLORADO STORM is
BROKEN AND STREET CARS
RUN AGAIN.
MINER CAUGHT IN SLIDE
THREATENED HALF MI LII o N
LOSS TO WESTERN STOCK
MEN PASSED.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver, Dec. S.-Thousands of shov-
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
us barriers between the center of the
city and it's 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 Tra,uway'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 coni-
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 the buoyant spirit
of the state asserted itself and the
true Colorado smile beamed again.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been added 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 a 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
ha
Silverton Harry Castle. n 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 n gulch eight miles north
west of Silverton.
Silver Plume-Oscar Johnson and
Joseph Wood, pioneer mining men and
leasers of the Seven-Thirty mine on
Sherman mountain near Silver Plume
are believed to have perished in
huge snowslide.
Cripple Creek.-It is impossible to
move steam or electric lines and all
traffic with horses is entirely blocked
at Cripple Creek.
Trinidad.-Southern Colorado and
northeastern New Mexico are isolated
as n result of the heaviest snowstorm
in the history of that section, which
ended late Friday night.
San Juan.-In the San Juan country
the warmer weather has carried with
it the dreaded menace of the slides.
The slides are running" was the
warning sent out
Littleton.-Snow crashed in the roof
of the Littleton Milling and Water
Power Company, causing a loss of
$500 and wrecked completely two ice
houses owned by John ID. 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
hours on a Colorado & Southern train
making the 10-mile journey from Den
yer. Snow is four feet on the level in
Littleton and the streets in the busi-
ness section are drifted seven feet.
FIfty-Three Die in Flood.