| Show ciuc THE IM A on collinston collingston Col linston hill ill chich lich knocks the lie Sorl hern 0 01 tilt THE PACIFIC A croup or of railroad men tell their experiences in the beautiful denneen the cascades and colfix colfax the utah northern train 1 is blockaded at collingston collinston Col linston till fill the morning train went out yeste day and a tram train arrived from the north A heavy snow set in in during luring the afternoon atter noon which the wind caused to drift terribly making it necessary to abandon the trains the light enow snow which fell in in oad ogden n rave gave every ever y indication of a heavier hea vie r one 0 n e in lie the billsland hillsand hill bill sand by b 8 last night nigh t there was a bl blustering uttering wi vind nit winch caus caused ed the report of 0 ti the utah A northern blockade to he be no ra le surp surprise and later reports from there verifies the belief that there is is in indeed tie ed a heavy 8 storm torm in the bills hills the storm lias has no doubt extended d along to the We W estand stand there is is a prospect of another blockade on the central pacific but there is 18 every ever probability now that that roal road may be bc kept clear this has been a bad winter inter in the sierras and the central pacific co company in has been di livent in in keeping keepin the tile road open 0 en although nature an and y ca casualties lab have been against tile workmen the recent blockade was wa Is the tile result as has been before stated in in TUB TIIE of an accident which gave gp the tile snow an opportunity to pile up in huge drifts in the cuts between gold atun and colfax until it appeared almost an impossibility to break the blockade the tile rotary snow plow I 1 ow in use did most excellent boil work bo however uever and when a good start was gotten t tl e enow was wa s lifted and hurled burled away an ay with great rapidity at the union depot yesterday a party of enow snow fighters were ere t talking a illig over their experiences experiences in in b blockades loc kades an and d a STAM DAni reporter coined joined tha alie group and arid learned something of the way y it is done we made a run from forn summit to gold run eaid said who to was I 1 in 11 the tile last blockade at an average rata rato 0 of I 1 speed of 14 in miles it es an hour the cowna now was Na from five 8 veto to ten feet dee deep we could bee see nothing but enow and when lien it Y was as being shot ont from the plow it looked like a huge cloud burst of enow snow with the tile clouds very close to theearta llie the earth it was a grand eight ev n to men who were used to it and who were not out for much of a pleasure trip sort of a plow was used was asked tile rotary and let me we add right here that the rotary is is a bird the cyclone cv clone which A claims such a reputation as 5 a w orld beater do dont n t perform at ala all 8 she he turne turned I 1 over oyer any snow yet that ive been seen what portion of the road was the heaviest of the blockade on the blockade extended from truckee to colfax but the lie laviest of it was as between the cascades and col fx lax and there is is where wo we had bad the hardest it does not look like such a hard job when the snow allow is being thrown fifty leet feet away from the tile track as the great plow pushed by four engines gouges it out and leaves an open topped tunnel for the tr trains as i to pass through what are tile chances for keeping keepin 9 the road clear hei lacie tatter in in case of other heavy storms very good there will be another plow brought in in her herroon here eoon soon and w when ben there are two to on ill alie road and llie tile storms watched closely there is is not much show allow for tile to get ahead of us unless it comes harder and faster than it lias has BO so far |
