Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-11 | Page 2 | Blizzard in Colorado

HII AnU 11 IN IX 1111 In III Serious IoN INq 01 Cattle Xo so o Yet Vot Denver April 11 lIThe The snow storm which began on Tuesday Tuella and continued intermittently on Wednesday developed into a blizzard during the night Throughout eastern Colorado and Wyoming the ground round Is covered cover 11 with wet wot snow to a II depth ur of title to two tso feet No serious damage ts yet been reported report d trains are ure arriving several hours late hate this morning The weather has baa been comparatively warm Should it become collIer colder the lie wet snow will form forum u Ii crust which will make Inake It impossible for tor cattle and ami sheep to graze on the ranges and antI In that event serious losses of ot live hive stock may result reBul Snow Sno continued to fall all 1111 the after acter afternoon afternoon noon as tar far east as LImon Farther arther I east rain gladdened the hearts hear Is of ot tim the farmers The Thai storm has not seriously with on au the tho Union Pacific Burlington or tock Rock Island railroads The Tue Santa Fe train which left Denver Dener at nt a m iii was blocked locked by drifts near Sedalla at a m at Five hours of ot furious work worl were re me required required to dig It out amid ami It continued on omi Its Journey journe Other trains were de dc delayed delayed two to four tour hours on the divide All the roads are using huge snow snowplows plows In an nn effort to keep keel their tracks clear The Time mountain lImits lints are running two engines and a great creat flanger over oer the west sections A violent blizzard Is raging In the Cripple Creek district The mountain tops In the tIme Leadville district between the lie cloud clout city antI and omo are arc hidden In a swirling white mass maliS Barons Boreas Pass is burled buried A corres correspondent on ent there wired as IU a follows SnowIng fearfully melting inciting rapidly very Cry high wind baIt bail drifts Snow five feet deep on lie le level leel The rhe telegraph telephone electric lighting companies c have sustained con considerable CS from falling tailing wires Street earn carll have ha been operated In this lila city during the day da with difficulty AHOrN PUCKS S PEAK II A REGION IU OlON Colorado abrade Springs Colo Cob April 11 The Pikes Peak leak region is burled under two to ten feet ft ut nf f now which fell In twelve hours beginning at 9 last night The snow Is Ii deepest on the north side of ot Pikes Peak and over the lie divide between this city and Denver A gale lle blowing fifty Oft miles nn an hour Is drifting the lie snow now and Cripple Creek mining district l Is 18 block blockaded ailed All trains are three to six hours late between here and Denver U nver The Santa Fc Fe 1 Is snowed under By Dy work workIng ork Ing In all night with electric plows tho he RapId Transit system In this city was at kept open The Tue city schools were dis dismissed missed for tor the day IA on account of ot the lie storm