Show BREAKING A BLOCKADE A CONSI considerable DEMABLE STRUGGLE WITH A STORM lasi last night there was a regular blockade on the utah central rail rall road it was only broken after the most strenuous emm efm morte lorte and the concentration cent ration of extra forces of tha the road oad the conductor of no 8 fres frel freight ight which left this city at 5 pm being aware of the situation a short distance ahead left 10 of his 52 CATS cars at farmington and passed on to the north wardin the hope of being able to dash through the drift in a cut about a couple of miles this bido bide of Kay faville he very nearly accomplished this fe feat t but not quite being caught in the accumulation of the beautiful he left the portion of his hla train he had taken along in the block and managed to get got through with his engine passing on to kaysville Kay Kays vIlle aville in the hope of getting help in this he was disappointed as the passenger from ogden nau bau been on onn the track there and had not yet reached kaysville Kays ville mr cope the freight and passenger agent agents being at the latter p pace ace boarded the engine and some section hands were also taken on board with the view of cutting through with the shovel as well as by the aid of the engine when the blockaded cut was reached all hands including mr cope went to work with might and main maln but as one was taken out a couple drifted inland inand thus progress was being made the wrong way the wind was so BO strong and cutting that the men could not remain in the snow wielding the shovel more than five minutes at a spell some of them remarked they would not stand out at that kind of wont worm one hour for a thousand dollars in jact fact they could not have lived in it that long the train on the bouth houth F south fouth side of the block was only three car lengths from the blockade breakers the engine was waa with difficulty backed out and run back to kays ville at which the tha passenger train from the north had now arrived two engines then proceeded to the scene of the struggles struggle but stuck io in about the tha same place as before this was about 9 another ineffectual attempt was waa made with shovel shovels another engine arrived from ogden but all that could bo be done by it was wab to keep the other two moving and prevent them being frozen in solid the city was telegraphed to for aid and two more anaines were wera sent bent out to the scene of the difficulty arriving there about 1280 1230 a m they had aboard leavitt armstrong and rumell these two engines moved the block abed train and thus enabled the two engines to the north of the obstruction st to 9 1 buck through af after ter an hours hard work A sensation was wag created when farmington wag was reached by t the he discovery that one of the men raen named tibbs w was as missing it was thought that he was frozen and had perished peri perl sned shed but he was afterwards met about a mile and a half north of farmington coming this way the delayed passenger train reached this city about five this morning there were about thirty passengers aboard all of whom preserved the most creditable equanimity during the delay the road is clear to day and trains running as usual |