Show TENNESSEE PASS TUNNEL I BREAKS IN Mass of Earth Feet Long and 18 Deep BlocKs Denver Q Rio JUo Grande RECENT SNOWFALL IS CAUSE OF ACCIDENT Tunnel Was Empty at the Time Trains Will Come West Over Midland DENVER May 18 The The Tennessee tunnel over Tennessee pass on the line of the Denver Rio Pio Grande railroad about five miles from Leadville and saul at ata ata ata a height of ot about feet above sea sealevel sealevel sealevel level caved In for a distance of nearly neatly feet this morning by a a. slide of melting snow and loose earth The tunnel tunnel tun tun- ad nel was clear when the accident occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc curved and there were no casualties The rein ein occurred 1000 feet from the portal of the tunnel an and extended to a height of c eighteen feet from the bottom The Tho discovery of the thc was made by a track walker Believing Belie that the vast ast mass mails of dirt anti and snow had buried a 1 train ho he hurried hum bur ried ned back to the first station and gave an the wamin warning A train bearing bearin engineers engineers en en- and officials of the time road was rushed to the scene but in the tho meantime meantime meantime mean mean- time the tho wires had bad been at work and it was Tas found that there had been DOloss no DO loss of at life nor any one ODe hurt Arrangements have baye been made whereby whereby where where- by traffic will be taken care of by the Colorado Midland laud railway At the offices of the the chief engineer 1 of the Denver Den Rio Grande railroad i L u was wal stated this mornin morning that the was probably let less lebs s serious than first reports reports re re- ports had indicated The ein ca-ein it 11 I was stated occurred at one of t the he three ventilating shafts It is confidently expected expected ex ex- ex that traffic through the tIme tunnel will bo be restored within forty eight ht hours bourn The Tennessee Pass Tass tunnel was completed com cons in in 1890 and was part of the work of reconstruction of tho the Denver Rio Eio Grando Grande railway when Then that road was us chan changed ed from a narrow huge gauge to a standard ule line The tunnel in is known to tourists all aU over o-er the world It Itis Itis is b heavily timbered throughout hout and ai al ai Ta ways wass s 's carefully watt watched bed but have hav been redoubled o of late on account lof of the unprecedented snowfalls |