Show ovo CANYON AILS ROADS SNOW 1 J Slide lide Buries Highway to Depth of Forty Feet Clearance Clearance Clear- Clear ff ance Impossible Special to The Tho PROVO Feb 9 Both 9 Both highway and railroad through Provo canyon canon canoni i arc se c completely blockaded by snow and will vIll remain so indefinitely according ac ac- ac cording to state road commission of of- jials Two heavy y slides since midnight of Monday have left over 1000 feet teel of the hJ highway covered to a depth of of- 40 r ct and feet of Denver Rio Grande Western tracks arc are under 10 reet of snow Seven minor slides in jn canyons pening Into Provo canyon have also een cen reported SLIDE The first slide occurred at 1230 1 i. m. m in Slide canyon This is about quarter inc mile above Upper Falls n a the main canyon and was the scene ast year of mud mudslides slides which blocked raffle through the canyon canon for seVeral seVe sev- ral weeks More than feet of he highway at this point is under 40 of wet heavily packed snow If 11 cold weather sets in it will willIe Ie te e almost as difficult to move it as t f it were a granite wall The second slide came over o the Veil falls at 8 a a. a m. m It brought lown an avalanche of heavy snow v hat now covers the road for more han ban feet and varies in depth rom a few feet feel to 40 feet feeL The slide completely obliterated he railroad tracks Officials have een leen un unable ble to estimate the damage one to the right of wa way 1 tOADS OADS BARRED I I Neither the railroad company nor he highway officials have determined deter deter- tined mined upon a method of attack on he be barriers It is the most severe tide that has occurred in iii the canon canon can can- on for man many years At FAt this same point in the canyon canon l Lear car ar the Bridal Veil falls several cars ago a slide came down cover- cover ig the roadway similarly and kill- kill jg ig two workmen in its path Grover of the state road on field force says the high high- ray ay y through the canyon will vill be closed ide definitely No one was injured by the sl slides nd rid no property properly damage is reported x that to the roadbed in the canon canon can can- on ii and the railway line both of arc are undetermined fam am m the daughter daught r or of the earth and g Ii water tod nd the of the sky pass through the pores of the ocean f. f and shores change but I cannot die fc r Shelle Shelley |