Show STILL IN THE SNOW the worst season mason ever experienced by railroads in utah that is the verdict of railway men as well as others acquainted with the difficulties which the present winter has brought to the railroads first it was snow and the trains had bad to be dug out then it was ice and the slip slip of the wheels on the rails caused the trains to fall hours behind schedule time in a run that takes but an hour in good weather and now it is a combination of snow and ice that proves too much for the iron horse and his masters of course the central pacific has been blocked for over a week and now at alter tor the strongest efforts that could be put forth on that line which in ordinary winters effectually copes with storms that would close down most other lines the annon announcement announcement cement is made that the road is sin in a worse condition than ever the heaviest storm of the season mason in the sierra nevadas began yesterday and still goes on on the west slope rain has bas commenced to fall and the streams are already overflowing their banks this has bad the effect of opening the road to the extent that one west bound train was liberated today and made its ito way to sacramento but the 91 lo 10 other trains are still beyond hope of relief for sume days to come this storm is wending its way eastward and cache valley has a already received a visitation on monday and tuesday tho the utah northern was cleared only to be blocked up again almost before the news of its being open could be given to the public there is a freight train near mendon so deep in the snow that no definite idea can be given by the railway officials when it can be dug out so that trains can be moved the northbound passenger got to L logan an thursday night and learning 0 of the condition at mendon wisely remained at the temple city rather than take its passengers and dump them in a snowbank and as for the coal famine the people of cache valley will be compelled to bear it for some time fortunately there is no prospect of intense suffering for lack of fuel but many families it is reported will have to burn wooden articles which will incur considerable ex expense on the union pacific east of ogden the trains are reported almost any number of hours behind with the report from each station showing them still farther in the rear then a is reported abandoned and the train of the day before is marked down as ab ou time only to fallback fall back again progress is made however and traffic is kept tuovi moving tig by the occasional arrival of a train at its destination the announcement is made from the union pacific office in this city that tomorrow afternoon Is train for park city has been abandoned it is also stated that a temporary change in time has been made that ia bs the park city train will leave ene utah central depot at salt lake at a in on and after monday next and will endeavor to reach the park at 1165 1155 a in returning leaving park city at p m to arrive in salt lake at p in this arrangement is made in the hope that the trains will be able to get through by daylight each way the train which should have left park city this morning concluded not to do so the reason for this was that a terrific storm had set in the snow was drifting in immense heaps along the track thoroughly blocking it even if the road had been clear the wind was blowing a perfect hurricane making it positively dangerous for a passenger train to attempt to make the run on the slippery rails with this combination of ice wind and snow no start will be made the storm abates inquiry for the salt lake western train brings the response stuck in the snow yesterday the train started for gintic tintic but get there and no effort was made to start stait another today there being sufficient to do in the way of trying to release the one already en route it is not likely that any train will start for tintic gintic before tuesday if one does then the snow is still coming down and drift in ing te h heavily leave ll 11 y between n salt alt lake and provo the way is kept open with considerable difficulty and trains cannot make time when the hour for arrival comes and the train is asked for the reply is invariably at the point of the mountain mou etain this means that the way is being literally through the snow that has blown into the cuts and as the train moves forward a short distance at a time the cuts passed are again filled from the mountain sides last evenings evening s train on the utah central made good time from provo getting into salt lake five hours late the B R G W also has an immense amount of work on hand and like the union pacific keeps moving slowly but still getting through fairly well under the circumstances cum stances but no trains are able to run to the schedule the utah central division between salt lake and ogden fares no better than the rest the fast mall mail should reach this city at 2 SO am and started from ogden almost on time but it only got a short dis tance before trouble was encountered the wind sweeping over the sandridge filled the cuts with hard packed snow and about seven miles out from ogden all progress was checked the train goti through this afternoon and the utah central is now open on the direct line from ogden to frisco one effect of the railroad blockades is the scarcity of coal in the salt lake market and dealers are busy in trying to satisfy the needs of their customers by partially filling orders so as to make the supply reach over the present emergency As to weather 1 indications nd Icat ions the signal service office predicts that the falling barometer bo meter means a downfall of snow in a short time probably a part of the storm that is now going on in the mountains around us |