Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-18
II BLIZZARD LIE.
The Sensational Report of al Unreliable
Newspaper Punctured.

The Sensational Report of al Unreliable
Newspaper Punctured.
Bill Kings Minneapolis Pioneer Press in
dulged itself, yesterday morning, il little
sweet revenge against the Northern Pacific rail-
road company for daring to make it's headquar-
ters in st. Paul. In one of the most conspicu-
extremely sensational headlines, is given the
following. purporting to be sent it by tele-
graph from <Mandan, d. T.:
Since the storm of q week ago the railway au-
thorties have been struggling courageously with the
drifts, trying to get supply train out to the front.
the Bad Lands there are over four hundred men
employed on construction, and they had only ten
days supplies at the time Of the Storm the gravity Of
the situation will be understood. Since last Friday
the supply train, with four engines snow pillow aud
forty-fve men have been engaged in
removing the snow from the tracks, and
of the sixty to the end Of the track with the worst
part Of the road yet to wrestle with in
from the end of the track yesterday with = team,
having been hours In reaching here and
reports only two days provisions at that point when
he left From the end Of the track to the Bad
Lands is sixty miles further and what the situation
may be no man can surmise since the storm. Alto
gether the situation begins to present alarming fea-
lures, and should be visited by another blizzard
soon, there would probably be frightful story to
relate.
That this sensational paragraph was inspired
by malice is shown by the fact that it contra
diets itself, in the first two sentences giving
the four hundred laborers provisions for three
days, while a little further along it says: "a
man came in from the end of the track yester-
day, with q team, having been seventy.two
hours reaching here, and reports only two days
provisions at that point when he left" Seven
ty-two hours is three days, 80 that at the time
the pretended dispatch was sent from Mandan,
the men at the front had three days supplies
on hand, as per first statement, and had been
out of food for one day, or on short rations for
three, as per last statement.
The simple facts in relation to this matter
are these: The extension of the Northern Pa
cific beyond Mandau to the end of the track is
not operated regularly, only trains running as
it is necessary to move out supplies and mate
rial for the force of laborers in the bad land
country. Following the recent severe storm
the energies of the company were devoted to
thoroughly removing the blockade on the Da-
kota division, and putting that portion Of the
line in good shape. Having accomplished this
the snow plows were transferred to the extern
sion. The snow fall was heavy hut serious OBJ
struction was only found at one place, and thi.
had been removed at the time the pretended
Mandan dispatch appeared in the Minneapolis
publication, and yesterday the supply train
was run through to the end of the track, where
the four hundred laborers were found neither
starved or short of provisions, but engaged in
the prosecution Of their work and not ut all
conscious of having supplied q sensational par.
agraph, or that they were in any danger of fur.
nishing tho basis for ''frightful story"