| Show FIGHTS SNOW DRIFTS in temperatures hovering between 30 and 40 degrees below zero civilian conservation corps personnel in the fort douglas district plowed through mountainous snow drifts relieved b be e leagur cd ed towns ree reestablished commini communications with camps brought aid to th sick and conveyed one boda bedl to ft a place of burial as a mid january blizzeard oard crippled traffic in southern utah utah dixie where semitropical semi tropical crops flourish was snowbound for days highway busses loaded with PI Ik tour tourists hits automobiles chool busses with their cargoes of children all were stalled as the storm filled thu tho main artelle of travel with driving snow and the mercury slipped to record low levels captain IV G hines res assistant quartermaster fort douglas district took command of rescue parties with headquarters at cedar city utah cooperating with utah state highway crows crews under direction of chica M maintenance engineer S L gate cate caterpillar tractors and huge highway trucks were pressed into service to break the white blockade that was isolating camps and communities in the southern utah areas behind ills spearhead of the rescue effort stood COO convoys loaded with supplies two camps in zion national park lark others at st george veyo and gunlock utah Bun bunkerville kerville muddy river wells siding and two camps at boulder city nevada were cut off from froin the fort douglas supply base by the blizzard after four days of virtually constant battling against the drifts entrance was forced to two camps in zion national park to st george veyo and gunlock over a short secondary road between LaVerl La Verkin dri and hurricane utah marooned COO enrollees at pinto and enterprise were taken out via newcastle utah to cedar city rescue parties found a woman at pinto seriously ill with no medical aid available she was taken to cedar city for hospitalization the body of a woman at newcastle utah dead 11 days was taken on oil a snowplow to Ente enterprise prise for burial no burial equipment was available in the snowbound village of newcastle until COO and state highway parties conquered the drifts two enrollees were ill at the enterprise camp and were removed in in closed cars to cedar city drifts 15 acet in depth b salci V U S highway no 91 from Kana ravillo raville to leeds and west of st george to the nevada line marooned tourists thronged thron ged hotels and taxed facilities to to the limit III highway liway no U 15 was blocked from andersons Ander sens ranch to a point beyond LaV La Verkin erkid and boyard highway 8 81 this was waa the first road opened by the combined OCO state highway rescue er crews aws rive five feet of snow fell it at enterprise and drifted on the crest of the wind attaining a veo veol city lety of 50 0 to COO CO miles an hour cuts made by tractors and plows filled in rapidly necessitating backtracking back tracking and impeding progress livestock herds suffered celi camps faced food shortages children were either snowed in at home oi 0 were marooned at school and sheltered and fed by citi citizens of cedar city no mall mail was received or dispatched from camps or communities until men broke the blockade enrollee personnel for tb the rescue effort was provided principally bv cedar city camp DG 30 company 1008 1508 |
