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Show m K TOTAL CjT $,0,0 . .. . , . '. ,,. ...... . ,. .- : ; ! . : ; . .. . C :?cngo end Oilier Points Cut Off From : Railroad Communication for Several ; Days; ; Peered Warmer Weather Will Gring More Danger to Hining Camps. to Red Mountain and the storm continues con-tinues so that it is impossible to get through. A small slide came down at the t Joker tunnel last ' night - and tore out the snowshed at the mouth of the tunnel and . destroyed the stable and blacksmith shop. ', -.--. - The Revenue tunnel, mine, mill and all the buildings are considered to be in danger since It Is known that the Potost slide comes down near the dump of the mine, and an Increase of snow might carry It over the buldlngs. The ' Atlas, Baker Consolidated and San Pedro are all considered to be in imminent danger. WOBST. SINCE SNOW i ; J SLIDE AND BLOCKADE ' -; r ' - OP WINTER OP 1884 - . ALAMOSA. Colo., ' March . 19. Not since the -terrible snbwsllde and blockade-of the winter of 1884, when the Denver & Rio Grande branch road between be-tween Alamosa and, purango was Impassable Im-passable for four weeks, has there been such trouble experienced - in this region as at present.-- , - ; : , : , 4No trains have arrived from Durango for seven days and every available man 1 bln-i taken- to"the large-tHwfiJiJea on Cuiubres hill.. . . - . , . Six dead engines are a no Wed in "be-tweea.Uvla "be-tweea.Uvla place and Durango; also one of the big rotary snow-plows." A ! rotary ro-tary now-p!ow was sent, from -gallda ttodayr pushed by. three engines. ' . - It has been. snowing continuously for seven days In the mountains west- and south of Alamosa, and the canyons are full of snow, and in many-places the tops of tall trees are just -visible. V Coal and-eatables have been sent from here to the working crews and'gooda are being taken to the snowed-ln tralni on Cumbres hill, to keep the people there from starving. HEAVIEST SNOWFALL EVEB BECOBDED IN y " COLORADO FOB MABCB HOLYOKE. Colo.'. March lAThe heaviest heav-iest snowfall ever known in northeaster! Colorado fell during March. The rangi is covered with two feet of snow and th n-ads are well nigh Impassable. The supply sup-ply of feed la almost exhausted. Railroad traffic- Is -very irregular an r.as been totally abandoned during th vorst of the storm. The Burlington llni from Curtis to Cheyenne has been coverec with drifts from two to six feet deep foi several days, and no attempt will be madi to open . the line until the storm ceases. - yfER. Colo... March 19. Fair t ther with rising tempeVature today Ifol.owed the severe snowstorm, which ha prevailed over Colorado for a fuU we4k with brief intermissions. Last night was one of the coldest of , the winter here, the, temperature fall-; fall-; lng to 5 degrees below aero. At Chey-i Chey-i enne, Wyo., it was 12 degrees below. ; Heavier Lou of life. ; Many snowslldes have already oc-: oc-: curred in the mountains, but up to this j time there has betn no. heavy loss of I life reported. J . The losses from destruction of - mine propertyln the vicinity of Ouray may 'amount to $1,000,000, and further dam-jajre dam-jajre Is threatened at Ouray, Tellurlde, , - lileo, Sllyerton and other mining camps. . .. ' " ' .;'. ' V i Cut Off From World. i . .. ... ' Durango and the other towns in the . Ban Juan region in southwestern Colorado Colo-rado have been cut off from communication communi-cation by train for nearly a week, but . the management of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad is making strenuous ef-forts ef-forts to reopen its branch line in that .tart of the State .which -is blocked by . lifavy snow on the Cumbrea rangp.. Uiou-b. Trains Hunlng.j"-r ' ' " - v: tnain transc6ntlnehtal lines have T n kept open and- through train -ser-M.-e has hot been much delayed during, ti e storm. ',; ' ' ' - -. " -' i .The heavy snowfall itv the mountains .assures an abundance of water for lrrl-gatlon.- ." '" - , "' : . '' ; .'' ', TWENTY' LIVES LOST; . V , 81,000,000 DAMAGE IN . . v" VICINITY OP.OUBAY y, ' r. : y , OURAY, Colo.. March 19. Six hun-i hun-i ; dred miner : employed 'in-the various ! rplnes -within a radius of twenty miles 'from Ouray have been cut off from all ' communication with the outside and It ) Is known some lives have been lost' As many as twenty-iflve mines are completely, isolated. - i At the Camp Bird mine, which Is four miles from tbe Camp Bird mill, a ' snowsllde late this evening completely iholated fifty or more miners employed and as the provision house was carried away it la certain they are in urgent 1 need of food. ' A rescue party of 200 miners starred to Vhlr rescue this morning. TJhe body of William J. Creasey, the l. j zrr'KUahman' wbo lost his life in the t' si f at the Camp Bird mill, has been 5 f tiered. IrVje feafed as many, as twenty mlneraTiave lost their - lives in the ' I slide, but the exact number will not I be known for days. -; The damage may reach $1,000,000. It Is said there is sixty feet of snow ' at the high tower of the tramway of the Camp Bird, and the snow is very I deep all. along .the route of the tram-I tram-I way. . ' . In the Imogene Basin, the snow is i from 160 to 800 feet deep. This will ! prevent work on the reconstruction of ! the tramway for several weeks, as " nothing can be .done in the deep snow. .' Machinery for rebuilding the mill and materials for the buildings can not i '. be taken up during the present condition condi-tion of the road, which will also delay I the work of reconstruction. -' The first move at the Camp Bird will . probably be to repair the power lines, i ' i which are all out. This will require ' several days and there will be no out-I out-I ' put from the mines until the mill is re-1 re-1 j built and in running order. ; ' XXINEBS LEAVE LIBEBTY ' . ) BELL, BEMXMBEBINO (-. ' FOBMEB EXPEBIENCE . TELL.URIDE, Colo.. March 19. A snowsllde' which came down yesterday 7 at the Liberty Bell mine damaged the ' upper terminal of tha tramway and 1 considerable trestle-work. It ran In the path of the noted slide of February Febru-ary 28. 1902, which killed nineteen men. The miners, rememBerlng the terrible terri-ble elide of four years ago, having . been leaving the mine and coming to town today. It will be only a question c' a day or two until the Liberty Bell i 111 will be compelled to close down. Ivnother huze slide came down yes- rday near the Bullion, Tunnel of the uggler-Unlon mines damaging the -.acksmlth shop and other outbuildings. outbuild-ings. - ' - On account of the severity of the stprm which still continues no effort . wks made today to recover the body of Aii-rust Hellene, who ' was killed Saturday night by the slide In Bear Crek. -' The telephone line to Ophlr station It cut off and the fate of the engine enl Carper crew,, hemmed In Jby slldei ' r.r Or Mr loop, has not been learned, lilies are down all along the road v i |