Show I DRIFT AFTER DRIFT Mans lnny Efforts Agraiiist the Forces of Nature Sacramento Cal Ja 21The heaviest snow storm that has prevailed this winter Is now raging in the mountains between Shady Run and Emigrant Gap Drift after drift is piling upon the railroad track and the plows are puffing and blowing blow-ing with might and main in order to clear a way lor the eastern mail which is slowly and cautiously threading its way over the mountains No sooner is one drift tossed aside by the powerful votaries than another formS Sometimes the snow lifted by the force of the gale is carried over the embankments I embank-ments and forma Immense drafts between I the laboring plow and the struggling I train Then the plow must tight it way I through the snow to where lit can turn and then fight its way back again to rescue I res-cue the tram from the increasing drift I Hundreds of shovelers are at work tossing toss-ing aside the precipitous banks of snow that threaten alt any moment to f l upon the track These men workIng in night and day shifts are struggling hard to overcome the damage wrought by the storm but the snow is falling and drifting drift-ing faster by far than they can handle it Added to the blinding volume of snow So dense that a lantern stuck in a bank cannot be seen a dozen feet is the wind Never before has it blown more fiercely and as the bitter wind sweeps down the cuts in which the men are working sending send-ing the flUnging snow into their faces they are compelled to pause to get breath and turn their barks to the biting blast There are 0 of these m n and they sleep and eat in a railroad outfit train which remains as close 0 them a sidetracks side-tracks will permit Although the storm is general from Colfax to Truckee Its center 5s between Blue canyon and Emigrant Gap The mountains which rise almost perpendicularly perpendicu-larly on the side o the track are covered cov-ered with fir trees some of which sixty ere or more feet high barely show their tops protruding through the snow so great is tine depth These mountains in places rise precip itously from the railroad and the immense im-mense body of snow covering them is in constant danger of sliding If it only starts nothing can checkv lt maddened downward rush and a calamity smllar to that which happened on the Shasta division yesterday is momentarily expected ex-pected on the road east of tills city |