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Show TiikEaktrtix I'iO.iuiiT. From Mr. Mark Lindsey, who has juat come over the Union Pacitic road, wo learn that one hundred .'car3 of time freight for Salt Lake and Ogden dated from Dec. 5th to Ulh are switched off at South Pass, 12."t cars at 11 ramie, and at North I'latlc lio can fir Salt Lake, Sacramento, Alu. , which had accumulated accumu-lated at those points during the blockade. block-ade. The snow hid drifted around these cars to such an extent that they are completely snow bound, and it will probably take weeks to extricate them. The company are doing everything in their power to keep the road open, and have soiuo ;15U men engaged in shoveling out the cuts. Whcu near Dale creek the locomotive of the train on which our informant traveled became detached and ran ahead for some distance, leaving the cars to cross the bridge and progress as best they could. On returning the locomotive locomo-tive dashed into the express cars, which were filled with funcy groceries, candies, rai-ins, turkeys, hogs and other edibles, which were scattered very liberally all over the track. During Dur-ing the delay caused by this accident the snow drifted around the cars so strongly that it took fifty men shoveling shovel-ing nine hours to extricate them. This will give some idea of what the V. P. R. li. has to contend with. |