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The second full week of February 1900 has been a trying week for the South Park railway. A heavy storm took the area by surprise on the evening of Feb. 12 and raged with all the fury of a blizzard until Feb. 16, causing perils and delays in Summit County and the surrounding area. The westbound train reached Leadville late on Feb. 13 and has been tied up there ever since. The Feb. 14 train to Leadville was held up all night in Kokomo. That train started back for Denver Feb. 15, but was caught in a snow slide in Ten Mile Canyon near Curtin, which knocked one end of a coach from the track. As of Feb. 16, that train is still hemmed in, and will remain until the line plowed out, which was expected to happen Feb. 17. The Feb. 15 train to Leadville stopped in Dillon before returning to Denver.
— From the Feb. 17, 1900, edition of the Summit County Journal
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