Fierce Blizzard Sweeps Over the State
All Travel Is Blockaded; Serious Loss of Stock Inevitable If Weather Should Turn Colder
A late-season blizzard buried Colorado's Pikes Peak region in feet of snow, blocking rail travel and threatening livestock across the plains.
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Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Page 1
1 min readColorado Springs, Col., April 11.
The Pike's Peak cog road is buried under two to ten feet of snow which fell in about 12 hours, beginning at 9 o'clock last night. The snow is deepest on the north side of Pike's Peak and over the transcontinental divide between this city and Denver. A gale blowing fifty miles an hour is drifting the snow and Cripple Creek mining district is blockaded. All trains are three to six hours late between here and Denver. The Santa Fe is snowed under. By working all night with electric plows the rapid transit system in this city was kept open.
The city schools were dismissed for the day on account of the storm.
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