Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-01-09

will bear with Us in our failure and
disappointment consequent upon the
terrible blockade.
We called at tho railroad depot and
learned the following facts concerning
the storm. On tho NJ. 4 St. P.R R.R.:
No.s2, passenger train, left Austin at
two p. NJ, Tuesday, with three coaches
and twenty three passengers, fifteen Of
which were ladies, besides tho usual
emPloyee.; Superintendent c. II.
Prior vas also on board. Tho train
was stopped by the snow drifts BE-
tween Counover and Ridgcway stations,
and was dead On the track at last &C.
Counts. Being left three miles from
Ridseway, the passengers arc doubt
less al right, as Superintendent Prior
would do all IN his power for them.
Train No. 6, consisting Of eight
fieight cars and the caboosc, with tho
employees and five passeogers-G. NJ.
Cameron, Esq, among the latter
from St. Paul, was stuck in the snow
: three miles south of Blooming Prairie,
At S O'Clock on Tuesday afternoon
The train was 'reighted with wheat and
-four, All stayed in the catooso
through the night keeping fires, tho
tender being filed with wood. On
Wednesday morning Conductor Bryant,
Engineer Sisson, and the bral:cmcn
and fireman lett the train and proceed
ed on foot to Lansing, brake.hn Dew
sney freezing his too. The passengers
remained with the train till Thursday
morning, cooking and manipulating
the wheat aud -four with snow aud fire,
the top Of the cabcoae box stove serv-
ing for all kinds Of cooking utensils.
Tho train, with engine bursted and en-
,tirely disabled, with the snow drifted
aud.p;led iu and around the cars, now
blockades the road.
No. 5, passenger train, in charge Of
conductor Waterman is blockaded be.
tween Lime Springs and Cresco.
Conductor Gage, of the B. e. r. &
NJ. is somewhere with bis passenger
train blockaded.
Conductor +. G.. Perkins, Of the S.
n r. T., IS at Ramsey with his train
and sixty passengers blockaded the
passengers are stopping at the Ramsey
hotel. Mr.. Morrison, the landlord,
has all and more than he can accommo-
date. Engines and snow plows are at
work on the s. NJ. R. r. to-day, Friday.
An order from headquarters sus-
pends all trains on the Mason City, B.
G. 4, l. N. .R'ys till further notice.
In all, nine engines are dead on the
roads coming into Austin. The snow
plow which left McGregor to the re.
lief Of train No. 2, at Ridgoway, has
become stalled at Castalia.
A snow plow with the Master Me-
ehauic and \ crew Of shovollers is
working uorthward to rescue train No.
s, At Blooming Prairie as soon az they
can. 1t took them all day yesterday,
to reach Lansing. The snow seems to
be packed on every inch Of the rails,
nearly a. hard as the ground itself:
Compared with other storms, the
snow on the roads is not deep. but very
hard it is much harder and slower
10 clearing the track.
1.-THE station men at the depot ex-
pect to be ordered out to shovel, on Sat.
urday. No trains will arrive here this
week.
Many Of. the families Of tho enl-
ployes 81 The different roads are out Of
wood, during the absence Of their pro-
tectors, who cannot get home, and the
men at the depot are carrying them
wood and provisions. Master Mechan-
ic Patty and others are taking huge
armfuls Of wood, to provide good cheer
for the anxious housekeepers. So far
We have heard Of no deaths or acci-
dents from freezing, Of any person on
these roads.
We are indebted for the above infor-
nation to the gcntlemanly Messrs. G..
H. Thomas, and A. II. Smith, assistant
clerks with A. r. Foote, station agent.
THE engine house, on the River divi-
sion Of the Milwaukee T. 81. Paul RJ.,
At Winona, was burned last Saturday
morning, with two engines, one passen-
ger and one freight
THE jury in the late Stokes trial re-
turned verdict IF murflor in tho fret