Daily globe., 1881-02-08

The Milwaukee & st. Paul Almost on
Time, and the st. Paul g. Manitoba and
Northern Pacific Doing Well. Considering
the Weather, But the Rest Demoralized
or Bursted-Hard Shedding on the st.
Paul 6 Duluth, Peck of Trouble on the
Omaha Line Roads, and the 81. s. D.. 1. &
NJ, 8. NJ. and N. g. St. L. Sealed Up Tight
Floods and storms Elsewhere Damage
by Ice Flows.
Oficial-"Hereafter and until further notice
the night train on the Fergus Falls division Of
the st. Paul, Minneapolis g. Manitoba railway
will be discontinued. The train leaving sti
Paul at 7:sO A. NJ. will run through, reaching
st. Vincent the following morning."
Photographs of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St, Paul through Chicago train were taken
yesterday for the benefit Of railroad men con-
nected with other companies, who were un-
able to get down to the depot to see it, that
they may not forget how such train
looks.
The situation, from the point of view of a
traveller waiting for surety of being able to
make his journey without danger of being
snow bound at some way station or between
stations, is not much, if any better, than It
was on Sunday. The old reliable
(as they begin to call it In Judge Chandler's
of1ce) River division was absolutely
of time several hours yesterday; but the
Northern Pacific and st. Paul & Manitoba were
Southern Minnesota, Iowa q Minnesota,
Winona & St. Peter, Hastings & Dakota and
Minneapolis & St. Louis roads remained al-
most hopelessly bloekaded. Tbs St. Paul &
Duluth was afflicted with heavy drifts, and
the St. Paul & sionx City and Eastern division
Of the Omaha line was only partly opened.
Freight trains remained suspended on all the
roads.
The snow plow Of the st. Paul & Duluth
company which left White Bear at A. NJ.
reached the st. Paul depot at II a. NJ, having
cleared up twelve miles Of road in five hours.
Meantime the Duluth passenger train, which
left the Waconta street depot at 7.45 A. NJ, was
held at the Seventh street bridge. At last &C.
counts late yesterday afternoon the passenger
was making good time up the road. The
passenger train on this road, which left st.
Paul Saturday morning, had proceeded no
farther than Wyoming at Q a. M.-haring
but Sunday proceeded to Duluth and yesterday
morning started to return to st. Paul. The
wind, however, was blowing hard and snow
drifting, so that in the first three hours the
train had moved only fifteen miles. Later re
ports were that this train was over the divide
and making progress which promised to bring
it into st. Paul at late hour last night. All
freight trains on this road remained suspended
yesterday, the last freight run having been
made on Wednesday.
General Agent Hair, of the st. Paul & Duluth
f0 Wiz 10 r,lA fo1E ~
Northfeld Sunday. Yesterday ho telegraphed
that he would probably have to stay there till
Wednesday or later and wanted the boys to
telegraph him what the GLOBE had to say
about the railroads, D. H. P. 1901.
Paymaster West, of the St. Paul 81 Duluth
road, wants to pay off the boys at saltwater
but cannot do it at long range and how to
shorten the range is puzzle Just now. Yes
terday morning he made his third attempt to
go over aud after waiting at Seventh street
bridge three honrs, seized SIS grip-sack,
jumped the tram, waded back to the Office and
by telegraph advised the company's employees
at Saltwater to apply for extensions of credit.
At Jamestown, Dakota, on the Northern
Pacific, eight inches of snow fell Sunday, while
the fall at Brainerd was four inches. But no
bad drifts formed and passenger trains be-
tween Brainerd and Bismarck were all out and
moving nearly on time. On the Dakota divis-
ion no delay occurred, but the train which
left Fargo for st. Paul yesterday morning had
some obstacles to encounter between Sauk
Rapids and St. Paul, and was several hours be-
hind time. The passenger train which was
sent out Sunday evening was held on a side
track at East Minneapolis, on account of the
road being blocked above, and was brought
back TO St. Paul yesterday morning. A freight
two Or three days was brought back to East
Minneapolis to be held there till the road was
clear.
Assistant Superintendent Rice of the ST.
Paul s. Manitoba, who went up to st. Cloud
with a snow plow team Sunday arrived back
yesterday, having laid over night on the
return trip at Elk River. The team consisted
of three heavy locomotives, each having
fearless driver, and Mr.. Rice describes the
through snow drifts as something wonder
full. They were driven in at highest speed,
so that thesplow sent the snow on either side
flying to a great height, hiding plow and
engines from sight, making broad aisles and
falling in dense white sheets several rods
wide. While they were operating near St.
Cloud Sunday afternoon hundreds of people
were out watching them, and one mans
curiosity was manifested in such
q most emphatic remonstrance. A snow
plow, propelled by single engine, was COM
ing down from sauk Rapids, and this man
planted himself in the middle of the track to
see the white cloud approaching, and let it
come within short distance of him at rate
of forty miles an hour before he jumped the
track
The St. Paul & Manitoba train which was
started for Fergus Falls Sunday evening was
stopped at Minneapolis Junction, and was
brought back from there during the night.
The train for Breckenridge, sent out yesterday
morning, was only half an hour late at Will
mar, and the morning train from Breckenridge
for st. Paul was only an hour late at Willmar.
Both were run through less than ten
hours late. The train which left
Fergus Falls for st. Paul yesterday
morning had no delay till after passing st.
Cloud and came in less than two hours late.
The Manitoba train via Fergus Falls, and the
Northern Pacific train were sent out on time
last evening, and at last reports were pro-
ceeding all right; but, as appears from the
official announcement above, the Manitoba
night train is to-day suspended until further
notice.
Superintendent Winter went over to Hudson
with snow plow team yesterday, and at 4
T. N. telegraphed from Hudson that the
shovel brigade would probably soon complete
clearing out the deep cuts in the vicinity of
saltwater junction, but the blockade between
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