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Show WYOMING BLOCKADE HOLDS BACK TRAINS Renewal of Blizzard Again Ties Up Traffic; Thousand Coal Miners Engaged in Shoveling Snow. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN', Jan. 27. Reports received here touight from points on the Wyoming Wyo-ming division of the Union Pacific indicate in-dicate that the blockade which prevails over a sixty-mile stretch has not been overcome, although some westbound trains were expected to get through before be-fore midnight. Two trains of yesterda' were marked np to reach this city at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning, but. there was no certainty that this schedule would prevail. Renewal of the blizzard between Lookout and Medicine Bow, after the tracks had been partially cleared in the vicinity of Elk mountain, again tied up all traffic this morning. A number of eastbound trains had passed over the lino before the second attack of wind filled the cuts with snow and ice. The most serious blockade is said to prevail at Wilcox, forty-two miles west of Laramie, Wyo. All of the waiting eastbound trains east of Laramie this afternoon were ordered back to Laramie. Lara-mie. A score of trains, some of which 1 have been waiting forty-eight hours, are held at Medicine Bow. Information was received this afternoon after-noon that 1000 coal miners emploved in the "Union Pacific mines at tianna. Wyo., have been ordered out to assist in clearing the lines of snow .between Hanna and Rock River. |