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Show TRASNS STOPPED Southern Pacific Blockaded on the Sierra Nevadas and Snowslide Occurs at a Tunnel Near Truckee Western Pacific Also Snowed Under in the Mountains. 1 Passenger traffic on the Southern Pacific west of here was completely tied up Inst night hy a heavy snow slide at Tunnel Thirteen, Just west of Truckee, Cal. as a consequence, no through trains had arrived In Ogden Og-den from the west up to noon today. Telegraph reports received at the local offices state tho blizzard has passed and that the work of clearing tho track Is going Bteadlly ahead. Tho reports, however, are not altogether alto-gether definite as thore Is but one wlro In oporatlon through the storm swept district, all other wires having been blown down or put out of service. ser-vice. West bound trains are tied up at Sparks. NTev , at which point thoro 1b threo feet of snow. Saow plows aro at ye lark at many pojnts iliotwetTi Sparks and Truckee, forcing a pas-sago pas-sago through tho mountains of snow underneath which the tracks aro burled At a number of places tho snow for hundreds of yards covers tho rails to a deptli of seven feeL A dispatch from Reno, New, says: Tho present snowstorm Is tho heaviest heav-iest within memory in this district. After a steady fall of thirty-six hourB. there was a record depth of two feet on 'tho level late last night, A depth of twelve feet is reported at Truckee, and six feet at Emigrant Gap. The snow has clogged the narrow river from which Reno's electric powx ' . a cr supply is drawn. The power pits nre clogged, ana the plant has ceased running. The street car service is at a standstill. Passenger trains aro being held at Truckee, Calif., and Sparks, Nov., no attempt being made to cross the summit sum-mit until the drifts are cleared. Two freight trains aro stalled between two snow slides near the summit. The snowplow at tho eastern end of the pass Is disabled. A dispatch from San Francisco says: "Reports received hor today by tho maintenance of way departments of the Southorn Pacific and "Western Pacific railways show that the heavy storm In the Sierras continues to delay de-lay overland traffic. "The Southern Pacific has not heard anything of Its westbound trains at an3" point east of Yuba Pass, where the wires are down. On this sldo of Tuba Pass there aro several small slides "Near Beldcn on the Western Pacific Pa-cific the wires are down, but no reports re-ports of obstruction of traffic havo been received by that company. Tho Western Pacific has no snow sheds in Bcckwith Pass, where there is four feet of snow. , "The vnlloy routes of both companies compa-nies are running according to scedule andjio trouble has yet been reported on the coast linos of the Southorn Pacific " |