Reno, Nevada, USA
1890 - Three Miles to Go - Then the Central Pacific Railroad will be Clear if the Falling Snow does not Block it Again.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Jan. 30. The following despatch was received from Truckee this morning:

Cascade Cut was opened yesterday morning by five hundred snow shovellers, raising the blockade from tunnel 13, westward. A wooden plough with seven engines started west from Truckee at nine o'clock, carrying sixty snow shovellers to removed the slide between here and Tunnel 13. it met with almost unsumountable difficulties on account of frozen slush. It is now less than four miles from town and has three miles farther to go before the road is clear. It is storming fearfully all along the line, drifting and blowing everywhere. Superintendent White went to Reno this afternoon. The snow is drifting badly down Truckee canon, but no trouble is anticipated. A snowslide occurred last evening east of Verdi, three feet deep and 600 feet wide.

Boston Evening Transcript
Boston, Massachusetts
January 30, 1890

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