People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — STORM IN THE SIERRAS. [ARTICLE]

STORM IN THE SIERRAS.

Snow Banked Up Thirty Feet High Beside the Kailroad Tracks. Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 2z. —Another storm is raging in the mountains, and. although there is more snow on the ground than there has been for five years, it is rapidly growing deeper. The storm began yesterday morning and continued without ceasing all day. The wind is howling through the mountains, and the snow is falling thick and faster than at any time during the last twenty-four hours. Owing to the violence of the storm and the possibility of a tie-up at any moment, no more freight will be moved until the storm abates. Passenger trains will kept moving as long as possible. The snow is banked up alongside of the track in places nearly thirty feet, and the rotary plows are beginning to work with difficulty in these places. Hundreds of men are employed in shoveling the snow so as to widen the space between the banks. As it is now the snow scrapes the side of the cars, and as the plows can not work to advantage the shovelers work in tiers grading the banks.