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Show Six Persons Known to Have. Lost Lives in Colorado i Storm. NINETEEN HERDS AND MEN BELIEVED LOST Bodies Found in Drifts Twen-i Twen-i ty Feet Deep One Frozen, j Standing By Sapling. j DENVER. April 20. At least six persons lost their lives in tho blizzard which ragqd over Colorado from Saturday Sat-urday to Monday, and many othors are ronortod missing. Three of tho dead are shoop harder? and their herds per. ished with thorn. Ninetoon other hrrds are missing and their herders are believed to be lost also. I Tho three herders whose bodies were found, were all killed southeast of Trinidad. One of them, John San-davall, San-davall, was frozen to death while standing upright against a small pap-ling, pap-ling, sonkjng the pnpr protection from the storm offered by the tree. ' Tho other two, Ramon Gallegos and Pedro ivjondt.za. apparently had jumped jump-ed into drifts hoping that the snow would proteol theni fi'0 freezing. When found they were in drifts twenty fcet doop, Roberta I-.ewis, a sixty-year-old negro ne-gro evangelist, was found frozen to (Vaih under a bridge near T)rjghtin, where she had sought shelter from the storm. Conditions in vendor today were nearly porpial again. All of the downtown down-town streets and many in the residence resi-dence districts wore cleared. -Mali deli de-li eries in the residence sections, however, how-ever, will not lje norma! for a weok according lo the postmaster. Practically all lajlronds have been cleared and are again running on schedules. One or two isplated sec-liong sec-liong of mountain branch, lines ?,re still lied up, however- Recoipts at the Denver stock yards have been so small since the storm began that one packing house closed down ils killing department today. The others continued, operation on a re-1 re-1 cluccd basis, I J. W. Bradford of Hoqulam. Waal;., died, in his berth on a. Union Paqiflej train as it was entering this dry lifter lif-ter having bpen stormbound for aouu' j time on It. His ticket indicatod 'hali he- was traveling from Farrapd. ukl'i.. ! to Portland. Oregon. Ho is ba'jeyed i to have a son in. Drlstow, Okla. |