Show RAGING BLIZZARD CRIPPLES RAILWAY SERVICE ON LINES THROUGHOUT UTAH One Hundred and Sixty Men II Battle Mile Four-Mile Snow- Snow I slide in Bear River Canyon I In Salt Lake valley and aud points be beyond last yond ond a terrible blizzard raged night light and this morning and carried I huge banks s of oC snow before it crippling r transportation at man many points While the street car system conducted conducted con con- I ducted business without interruption the tho railroad companies were not so 60 fortunate and from man many places reports reports re rc- re- re ports of trains s stalled came In n. n On Ou the thc Oregon Short Line railroad adverse conditions prevailed to a considerable considerable con con- extent The blizzard wrapped its all sweeping mantle around the hills and caused the precipitation pre capitation of One of the worst in years cars was reported reported re rc- re- re ported in Bear River canyon anyon It was four miles lon Ion long stretching from Wheelon to Cache Junction and resisted resisted re re- re efforts of trains to get through All the trains tra traveling in that vicinity vicinity vi YI have been held up The practicability of oC making a detour to outmaneuver outmaneuver out- out maneuver mancU the blizzard bUzzard has been considered considered con con- but railroad officials have found that another route Is also blocked The occurred last night One hundred and sixty men arc are now at work ork tearing down the four mile four harrier barrier to allow the thc trains I lo to proceed I CLOSED FOR DAYS I I I i I I I The men are attempting to cut a path hut but It is thought that it will twill he be man many hours possibly days before a passage will be he made Plows and rotaries arc are being used and with the shovel brI brigade ade every overy endeavor is 19 being heing heIng he- he Ing exerted to provide a right of wa way in the least possible time The Salt Lake IC Utah railroad is tied up at Jordan narrows No trains aro arc able to get set through The snow is hard packed and shovels aro arc being used with vim it being almost impossible impossible i sible to make headway in an any other manner Trains Train are arc only running south to lo Riverton Ri On the Salt Lake Og Ogden en railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road a terrific blizzard is blowing blowin from tram the west The Tho line is blocked I at Clearfield and Sunset and trains train I have ha not run since 8 o'clock this I I morning It is thought that condi condi- approaching approaching- normal ma may be reached late this afternoon I condl-I I The old battlefield Sol Soldiers Soldier's lerR Summit Summit Summit Sum Sum- mit caused delays of oC thirty and forty forty- I five minutes in schedule time over the Denver tC Rio Grande road toda today No No- I 1 1 due in Salt Lake City station at 12 1225 1226 r is reported thirty minutes late and No 5 5 due at is almost an hour behind schedule according to lato late reports USE SNOWPLOW Tho heavy leavy winds drifting and piling f the tho snow In the Summit cut l- l I the bringing into pIa play of oC a railroad railI railroad rail- rail road rOdd snowplow to clear the tracks but l le of or the thc th slight ht lIela delay no further difficulty was encountered encounter Ij by the road Salt bait Lake Lak Route Houte trains bound for Salt Lake Jake from the south Mouth are stalled I on mn the thc other side sido of or the 1 the of Mounta n. n near Draper some twenty twenty- mo fl miles south of Salt Lake The topo topography raph o of the mount has seriously affected transportation over ocr the line since sinco winter he began an and ever every time a wind comes up the snow drifts around aroun the side of or the mountain and settles on onIt the tho tracks and continues piling fast as ast at as It Is cleared cleare awa away It Is s expected however the cut will i he clear IJ by lath late this afternoon and I a I the tho trains train will be movin moving moving- imo the Su Salt u Lake Lako terminal More loro wind Is the forecast tuda today and I snow snow Is III destined this afternoon to to- to night and tomorrow with lowering temperatures Wednesday Snow and precipitation w were re regis reels l' l U tred in eVer every portion of the West CIt with the exception of oC Utah The fhe temperatures In Salt Lake during dun dur- erg ing illg the night were not nol abnormally cold collI tho the lowest I temperature just dropping to tho the fr freezing point of or 32 degrees degree I While the main line hue of the tine D D. A It R. C. C was wa reported repotted running almost on schedule time late this afternoon both hoth th the and amI Park City branch lines I were pro ro closed all alJ day duy The train leaving Salt Suit Lake for the Park and the Urr one Olle ln lel leaving for tor H both returned aft r noon today reporting s snowdrifts too deep to plow through |