The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-03-18
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No Trains Either way since Saturday.
BY an unsccountable wabbling of the
isothernaal line and . disarranRement of
the climatic valves 1 fearful storm shipped
by Old Probabilities for Memphis and
Wheeling struck this locality Sabbath after
noon and hung on until Tuesday night, get
ting worse and worse all the time. A quiet
fall Of about four inches of snow had taken
place Friday, and during Sabbath and Mon
day about six inches more came, and the
whole was driven about and piledi into drifts
BY 30 wind that rode ~rough-shod over,
into and through everything. The air was
constantly full Of SNOW. Nobody did any
travelling about and nobody peked his
noss ont Of doom who could help it. In
sho.e, % use The expression We hsve b.
come % used to hearing from Ohio and
Pennsylvania, it was 'the sevsrest storm of
the season." @."-'.s
The up-train got a. far ~ Elk River
Monday, little behind time, where it re-
manned until afternoon, when Conductor
Barstow received orders to return to st..
Paul il he thought he could. Whether he
got through, whether he il stuck in a snow
drift midway between the two places, or
whether he started At all, is not, 1t the pres
emit writing, known here. The down.train
got about mile and shalt this side of St.
Jo., and stuck. The engine was discon-
uscted from the passenger coaches and made
little further Roadway andstopped. Efforts
were made with teams to get the passenger,
among whom were three ladies, back to St.
Jo., but without success, the drifts being
too bad. The engine is kept "alive" by cut
ting rails for wood and melting snow for
water. As there are farm-houses within
reasonable distance, the passengers need
not suffer from lack of food.
About ten o'clock Tuesday night the
wind went down, and Wednesday was
clear and bright, with still keen breeze
from the north. Those. who under
took the work Of "shoveling OUT paths
found the snow packed as if pounded down
with = pile-driver.
The last arrival Of the Brainerd stage
wss on Sabbath evening. A stage started
for thsre yesterday morning.
The Two Rivers mail arrived Saturday
night and left yesterday morning.
No mail from Fair Haven has arrived
sincs Saturday night and none has left IS
YET
No mail frem Paynesville since Friday
night end no departure. ...: 49,.
Henry Behmer, the mail carrier between
here and ST. Augusta, LEFT the latter place
It nix o'clock yesterday morning, arriving
here at half past two In the afernoon-six
miles in eight hours and . halt: With the
aid Of the people along the way, he had
cut through drifts eleven feet deep.
The snow pillow which had been at Clear
Lake since Monday started out yesterday
for St. Paul, and = snow pillow from there
began working this way. The latter, TAX
ing afresh start from St. Paul at six o'clock
yesterday morning, reached here at half
past seven in the evening, and is busily
engaged this morning 'fbucking'' the snow
drifts in the neighborhood Of the depot and
toward Sank River. The fence was broken
down and the door of the engine house
knocked in by the force of the snow hurled
by the pillow.
The mercury did not mark severe wealth
er any time, the lowest being, 12o below,
which was on Wednesday morning. The
wind made all the trouble.
A train from st. Paul arrived to-day on
time, with four days. mail. It started back
at o'clock.