Salt Lake Herald | 1890-02-23 | Page 1 | The Great Central Pacific Blockade

The Great Central Pacific Blockade WASHINGTON Feb 22Senator Stanford this morning received the following telegram tele-gram from General Manager Towne of the Central Pacific SAN FRANCISCO Feb 21 The last passenger train but one that vent up the mountain on the Central Pacific Pa-cific required eighteen of our most powerful power-ful locomotives to push the plow to get them over and even with this power it got stalled near Emigrant gap This was the last trip possible to make with the push plow After that they had to depend upon power plows to throw the snow out of the deep cuts I the storm continues twenty four hours longer it will be impossible to keep the line open with any power