Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-16
THE SNOW STORM.
Drifts from Fifteen to Ttoe,,ty Feet Deep
Railroads BI0ckaded IN Minnesota.
IOaoG and Wisc0nsin-Lost IN the
Sn0to and Frozen to Death.
Special Telegraml

Special telegram
DUBUQUE, Iown, Jan. 12.-The snow
drifts on the Cedar Rapids and Minnesot
Railroad are from i've hundred to tw,
thousand feet in length and have deptl
forty men working from Mona southwark
for the three days past, have not ye
reached St. Ansgar, seven miles distant
1t is estimated it will take force of foul
or five hundred men week, if not longer
to open the road working day and night
The Sioux City and St. Paul Road ex
pect to have the road open in ten days
The snow drifts in the cuts are from five
to eight feet deep. One passenger train
lays at Sibley, two freight trains at Shell
don, and passenger train at ST. James
1t is thought the road will be open from
Lemars to Sibley by tomorrow.
The body of an unknown man was
found, frozen to death, at Nicolet last
night. Two teams were found, frozon to
death, near Worthington, Mimi One OF
The drivers was found yesterday badly
frozen, with no hopes Of his recovery.
The other driver has not been heard from.
A. 0. Jenkins, foreman of the Ohio
Bridge Company, Of Cleveland, was fro
zen to death between Sibley and Rock
Rapids while riding in the stage The
driver and the other passengers escaped
with Slight injuries.
A young couple, living near Lemars,
had been to Sioux City to get married
When returning home they were overta-
ken by the storm and got lost. They let
the team go, turned the sleigh box over,
and got under it for protection. At the
end of two days they came out safe and
sound.
The Central Railroad of Iowa is so bad
ly blocked by snow between Ackley and
Northwood that it will take several days
to open the road A train started south
from Ackley for Marshalltown, last night,
with but small prospect ofgetting through
South of Marshalltown the road is block
and it will take week or ten days, with
much labor, to open it. a train consist
ing of an engine and two caboose cars
was thrown from the track by broken
rail- near Ackley, in trying to get through
the drifts. The ears now stands, several
rods from the track. About seventy men
were on the train, who escaped without
injury.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul road, from
Mason City, Friday morning, reached
Charles City, thirty miles distant, Satur-
day night
Drifts on the northern branch are esti-
mated to be from five to twenty feet deep.
The main line OF the Illinois Central
road is now open the whole length to
Sioux City.
The Dubuque and Southwestern Sue
ceeded in opening thier road to Cedar
Rrpids to-day, as did also the Des Moines
Valley Road, train from Des Moines
reaching Fort Dodge this afternoon being
the first since Monday last. The wealth
er has greatly moderated tonight, and a
steady drizZling rain has set in.
MILWAUKEE Wis, Jan. IA St. Paul
dispatch says: The great storm Of the
past week has resulted in many fatal cas-
ultieS in this State 1t was entirely IN
precedented in its severity, and was so
binding that persons persisted within a
few rods of succor if they had known in
what direction to go. Three brothers,
Charles, John, and Stephen O'Neil, and
Thomas and Michel Halden, each with
two horse teams, started for Wilmer with
wheat on Tuesday. They were found on
Friday about ten miles out, two of the
ONei,s and one of the Holdens frozen to
death in the sleighs. The others were
alive, but will scarcely survive.
Five OK teams in the vicinity were fro
zen to death, and the drivers are supposed
to have abandoned them aud perished
A man was frozen to death by losing his
way while going from the depot to the
tank house at Herman Station, on the St
Paul and Pacific Railroad. A school boy
near New Ulm undertook to go home,
but lost his way, and his body was found
eight miles distant A man was found
yesterday near st. Peter, frozen A good
many other cases will undoubtedly be
heard of. The wind blew the snow so it
was impossible to see a foot in advance.
and the storm came so suddenly that it
caught persons out, and they perished be-
cause unable to find the way.