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Show SNOWBOUND TRAINS FROM EAST ARRIVE Local Postofflco Employees Expect to Be Overloaded With Mall Today. The thrco or four days' delay of tastern malls for Salt Lako which waB caused by snow slides and storms in Colorado, was llftod last night when trains from Denver began to arrive, Union Pacific train Xo. 7 arrived late last night and carried eastern mail for the west which had accumulated in Denver since Thursday. Thurs-day. No. 3 D. & R. G. was scheduled to arrlvo this morning at 8 o'clock and It will undoubtedly be heavily loaded with mall. Tho storms have ceased In Colorado and other eastern points somewhat slnco Saturday Sat-urday night and trains over all roada will bo rushed west as quickly as possible. The local Tpostorflce force will bo taxed to capacity to handle the extra amount of mall which Is expected to arrive within the next few days. The snowslide which "blocked traffic on tho Union Pacific occurred near Sherman Hill, forty miles west of Cheyenne. Wyo. Tho Los Angeles Limited, train No. 7, was the first to encounter tho blockade last Friday. Rotary plows for clearing the tracks were not used owing to tho fact that heretofore collisions havo occurred, oc-curred, tho engineers being unable to sec ahead because of the fine snow being be-ing sprayed In front of the engine. After a period of more than forty-eight hours, during which time the Los Angeles Limited Lim-ited had not moved, an army of men from Cheycnno arrived and cut a passageway pas-sageway four miles long to clear the obstruction. ob-struction. While the limited was bo lug held, thirteen thir-teen other trains were delayed. Tho en-tlro en-tlro fourteen trains were blocked in front by the slides and were hemmed in at the back by tho Increasing snowfall. They were unablo to back up into Denver. The tenders of the train's engines were well supplied with coal, which made It possible possi-ble to, keep the cars well heated and the passengers warm. Water was supplied by snow, which was shovoled bv tho train crew and passengers Into the reservoirs. res-ervoirs. All of the trains were forced to progress very slowly and tho leaders of tho fleet of fourteen mado barely moro than four miles an hour for a great part of tho distance. Special trains from Salt Lalce to the coaBt were made up dally since tho blockade. block-ade. They were dispatched from this city and Ogden at the tlmo for the departure of the regular trains from the east, Officials Of-ficials of the D. & R. G. said yeatorday that tne recent storm was tho most sovcre over experienced by the roaxL From Sa-Ilda Sa-Ilda to Denver, they said, a distance of 2it miles, tho snow has reached an average aver-age dopth of four feet. Six eastbound trains wcro held at Sallda during the storm and four westbound woro stalled between Denver and Sallda. FIvo cars of mall for Salt Lalce and tho west aro oxpocted to arrive from tho cast today. Two will come by way of tha D & R. G. and threo by the Union p? cm a |