Show SHASTA ROUTE OUT OF SIGHT It i Buried Under an Avalarclie of Snow Rocks and Trees MOUNTAIN OF OBSTHTCTION lUIVDUEDS OF MEN AtfE WORKING LiKE BEAVERS Sky Clear for the First Time in Three Weeks at San Francisco Los Angeles thou Only Point Reporting Re-porting Rain and I Is Believed the Storm Is heading This Way Mill SnowIng Heavily in the Mountains San FranciscO Jam 23 There is a complbte blockade of the California Oregon railroad at Uneer Soda Springs Cal above Dunsmuir The great avalanche aval-anche of snt > w rocks and trees which II I I came doWn at that point on Monday was supplemented another big shdet yestet day and Superintendent Flilmcre says ct will take fortyeight hours at least and possibly a longer period to get the Shasta route cleared Xo passenger train was Sent north last night In its place a icrce of 120 additional ad-ditional men was dispatched from Oak land to aid the 400 or more already on the scene of the cataclysm They took with them two of the largest hydraulic pumps of the Monarch pattern which will be placed at work at once on arrival I The Sacramento river goes rushing past close to the track at the location of the I blockade and its waters will be utilized by the great rams to cut away the immense im-mense mass of rocks and earth there piled up The slide of Monday extended a distance of 1000 feet and the mass of debris is piled up to a depth of twenty four feet At the came time the Sacramento Sacra-mento river was dammed up by the falling material to a depth of sixty feet Herculean 1 orK It was a herculean work for the force of men to clear away the mountain of obstruction Thrv set about it with a I will however and kept up their efforts until noon yesterday when another immense im-mense quantity of earth and debrs came down on the rails from the hillsides 1400 feet above and obliterated all the work that had been done dinner at Fortunately the men were at I the time or death would probably have been their fate As it was the situation was considered so desperate thait a report of the condition of affairs was telegraphed to Superintendent Fillmore with a pressing I press-ing demand for aid The result was that more men were ordered to the scene The company is apreheoisuve of other slides and the situation Is critical Sky Clear Once More The sky was clear today for the first time in three weeks Los Angeles was tbe only point in the scale reporting dr go rain and the storm is believed to have moved eastward During the pat five days 35i Inches of rain fell at San Francisco j > Fran-Cisco making o eons rainfall 1965 inches to date The river is still rising and is dangerously thigh at Sacramento but d falling at pont above Danger from floods is believed to be over Cautionary t Cau-tionary signals along the coast have been i i ordered down i In the mountains however snow is still falling Ait Reno Nev it a been drifting badly today Trains are delayed sixteen hours and the eastbound passenger passen-ger train is stuck in the drifts between Gold Run and Summit Between Sicstn and Dunsmuir Gala snow slides block the track and Sundays southbound passenger I pas-senger train is still an the drifts Wnore it has been imprisoned for eigfhty hours The Indications are that the blockade in the mountains will continue for four days longer Ten feet of snow has fallen during the past ninetySix hours Workmen Work-men digging out the track today narrowly rowly escaped death by an avalanche 1500 feet long averaging sixty feet deep composed of snow debris and big pine trees which slid down the mountain side I |