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Show GE.EIIAI,. Further from tlic Uloclcndc. Uorinno, 7, 9 p.m. A telegram from Medicine Bow says tho wind has been quiet nearly all day; ono train got to l'ercy and another has hoen stuck on Simpson's hill two days; the balance- are at Carbon. If it don't blow too hard to-night, they may all get through. Tho passengers on tho trains at Carbon and Percy have been supplied with provi. sions by the government; and a train load of bacon, hard bread, ote., loll Steele for tho trains this morning. Sup', Sickles is at Lookout with a force of men, and reports tho cuts full of snow, and that it is useless to work as long as tho wind keeps up. Tho company's water-tank and windmill at this place ivas destroyed by tire last night. Thu Jiro caught from a defective- stove Hue. The watchman saw its commencement, and might have stopped it with one bucket of water, but no bucket wa-near. wa-near. Tho section men, by hard work, succeeded in saving tho track near it by shoveling snow upon it. Dispatches from the west at Kawlings represent provisions as becoming short. Al r. Sickles recommends running supply trains from Evanston or the nearest )oint,so that provisions can be procured, A number of passengers, including eastern bankers, merchants, newspaper men, Canada railroad ollleials and others, telegraphed this morning from Ureen river to ilr. Sickles, entreating him to got them through as soon as possible, pos-sible, representing that further delay would bo ruinous to their business, and complaining of tho quality of tho provisions. provi-sions. .Mr. Sickles gavo them no encouragement en-couragement beyond tho general assurance assur-ance that they will get through us soon as possible, and that their train will not bo started unless victualled for ton days, preceded by a snow-plow, work-train work-train and a good forco of men. |