Re: Snow on Cumbres

Bill:

Before OY...

January 25, 1890
Bucking Snow
“On the range between the San Luis valley and Durango, the hardest snow storm for four years came to an end yesterday. Since last Friday no trains have been through in either direction. The passenger train on Friday was the last to pass over Cumbres Hill, and the one from Alamosa the same day is stalled four miles from Cumbres in snow banks fifteen to twenty feet deep.
“Dispatches from there say the snow is fully six feet deep above the tops of the cars. This train is made up of a snow plow, four locomotives, a baggage and mail car, boarding car and passenger coach. In bucking snow last Friday night, the plow and two engines were thrown from the track and in trying to get them on, the other two engines were thrown off. There they are now all dead.