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Show Six men dead in Colorado, killed in snowslides, and two in Idaho, was yesterday yes-terday morning's record of the nows; and almost every clay we have records of deaths from this cause. Besides, there, are accounts of slides burying railroad tracks and delaying traffic for days. The accounts would Justify 'the belief that there has been an unusual snowfall this season in the hills, the weight of the drifts causing them to come down as soon as a few days of warm weather have loosened the resistance resist-ance at the lower edge. It is a frightful fright-ful thing, and a destructive almost bo-, bo-, yond -belief, this ulldinsr of -the snows. A drift, gathering momentum from a bare belt on a hill, comes smashing down to tho timber below, and sweeps a grove clear In a twinkling, carrying rocks, trees, and every obstruction to general chaos. And woo to any living thing caught In the awful pathl |