The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-08
scription Of Charley Ross, was seen in his
possession about a year age.
The storm and the Railroad..

The Storm and the Railroads.
The following account of the damage to
railroads by the late storm is from St.
Paul correspondence of tho Sd:
The damage to the Chicago, Milwaukee
q st. Paul railway by the storms Of Mon
DAY and Tuesday nights, have not been
lully repaired, but they are
expected to be by. tonight, and
through trains resumed to.
morrow. The train for the East this
morning was delayed nearly three hours
by small slide near Mendoza. This
train will probably not go further than
Lake City, from which point the passen.
gers will be transferred by boat to Wi
mona.
The train from Omaha, on the St. Paul
4 Sioux City road, is several hours be.
hind time, owing to the storm of last
night. The train for Omaha left on time
this afternoon.
The Sioux City Journal of Tuesday
gives the following particulars of the mar
row escape from destruction of passen.
ger train on this road Monday night:
The st. Paul passenger train which
lett the depot in this city at 1920 o clock
Monday night, had narrow escape from
destruction: The engineer who was
keeping sharp lookout for breaks in
the track discovered washout about
nine miles east Of here, and succeeded
in stopping his locomotive upon the
very verge of the chasm. Had the
train been running at the usual rate of
speed it would have been wrecked in
spite of every effort. But the officers of
the train had their suspicious about the
safety OF the track and were s:feeling their
way through the storm at slow rate.
The outgoing train remained at the break
until the arrival Of the incoming 4:40 A.
NJ. train yesterday morning, when the
passengers and baggage were transferred
and the trains returned. The one on
this side OF the washout arrived here at
O'Clock yesterday morning. The dam
ages to the roadbed were repaired yester~
day afternoon and the trains are again
running on time.
During the storm Of Tuesday night the
barn of Mr.. English, of Pleasant Val.
icy, st. Croix county, was struck bv
lightning and burned, with its contents,
grain, hay, etc., inflicting loss of about
$4,OOO. During the same storm Mr..
Hanson of the same township, had
wheat stack, estimated to contain 40
bushels, struck by lightning and burned.
The rain storm of Tuesday night in the
vicinity of Winona was one of the most
severe that ever visited that section. The
storm continued between five and six
hours, the rain falling in torrents. The
Winona 4 St. Peter railroad has several
small bridges washed away, stopping the
running of trains Wednesday and Thurs.
day.
An incident illustrating the rapid rise
OF the streams in that section is told by
the Winona Republican. A train
had started westward when it
was stopped by bridge
washed out: Undertaking to return, It
was found that in the short time since
the train had passed over the road, the
water had flooded the track to such a
depth as to make the passage unsafe.
Among the passengers were DR.. Staples
and George T. Flint, who under.
took to reach dry land bv following
along the track. In a short time thew
were stopped by the rapidly rising food.
10 go ahead was impossible, and to re-
main where they were, was fatal. Just
then they discovered somebody getting
out skihf on the shore and they begged
them to help them out. A voice came
back, ''Be COB, it's foive dollar Job to
get yees out O. that The Winonians
were not in situation to higgle about the
price, and they were glad enough tc pay
we'll for being landed once more on terra
frma.