Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-08
THE RAILROADS.

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THE RAILROADS.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul, and st. Paul &
Omaha Reopened-Forty Tons of Mail
Matter in This Morning-Work on the
Western B1ockades-The Northern Roads
all Right-Walking Feats Extraordinary
The coming Flood on the Missouri.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul company started
passenger and mail train from Chicago for
st. Paul Sunday night, which was expected in
during last night, having passed the lately
blockaded section of the road in Wisconsin
during the afternoon. Four cars of the train
were loaded with mail matter.
A Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha passenger
train left Chicago Sunday evening, which was
evening only about seven hours late. But at
midnight the train had not yet arrived. The
blockade on the Northwestern track in Wis
consin was raised about 10 Sunday night, and
the st. Paul & Omaha trains which left here
Saturday, reached Chicago at 5 A. NJ. yes
terday.
The st. Paul & Manitoba main line and
branch lines, all except the Morris & Browns
Valley branch, were in good working order
yesterday and both freight and passenger
traffic was fully resumed. The Morris &
Browns Valley branch, if the weather con-
tinues favorable to-day may be opened tonight
so that trains can be run tomorrow.
The st. Paul & Duluth and Northern
Pacific railroads were all clear yesterday with
all trains moving in schedule order and time
General Manager Sargent, of the Northern
indicate that the breakup at Bismarck may
come sooner than desirable for the railroad
operations at that point. The ice jams of the
Yellowstone have all been run out, but the
river is high and the upper Missouri is SWELL
ing. At Fort Buford, yesterday, the Missouri
was rapidly rising and g breakup of the ice
was hourly expected. Thirty-five miles above
Fort Stevenson the water was running over
the ice three feet deep and with strong cur
rent. No word could be got from Stevenson,
but it was believed the ice was also flooded
there.
Capt. Gear, superintendent of the St. Paul
division of the Omaha line, went west yester-
day to try what he could do towards hasten
ing the reopening of his division to St. James,
and then to assist Superintendent Lincoln in
opening the Sioux City division. The spring
thaw appeared to have set in all along She line
to the Missouri and, if it is not interrupted
by cold snap, it will materially assist in re-
ducing the bulk of snow to be handled and
hasten the opening of the line.
On the Hastings & Dakota extension from
Glencoe west, which has been blockaded so
long that the people living along the line have
got into the habit of translating the familiar
initials (by which the road has been common
ly spoken of) into "H-l and DID," the
weather is favorable to the work of clearing
the track, but the work is i'm
mense and cannot, with the most fa-
vOrable weather, be completed before
Saturday. Most of the line, beyond Glencoe,
has been uncovered six times and each time
the snow has piled in worse than before,
without the line once being opened so as to
let train through.
& st. P. was open yesterday from st. Paul to
McGregor, but the Austin e. Mason City road
was still closed. The latter may be opened
to-day.
There is nothing new from the Winona &
St. Peter and Southern Minnesota western ex-
tensions except that the work of trying to
open the snowdrifts has been resumed and the
workers are encouraged by thawing weather
to hope that what they do dig open will not be
along the western portions of these roads who
have been cut off from communication with
the world for near three months will feel as if
released from prison when they again hear the
whistles of locomotives and rattling of trains.
The Golden Northwest (organ of the North
ern Pacific Land department) will contain the
following announcement, which will serve as
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appointment referred to is a permanent one.
cat meeting of the board of directors of the
Northern Pacific railroad company, held in
New York February II, 1881, r. M. Newport
was elected general agent of the land depart
ment of the Eastern division, in place of Jas.
B. Power. All communication with reference
to the land department business, should here
after be addressed to r. M. Newport, general
land agent, st. Paul, Mimi"
A vVir,niy,arp Of Loot xyoal ttNfr
A. B. StickneY, general superintendent of the
G. P. R., yesterday concluded negotiations for
the purchase of 400, 900 ties for use in the con-
struction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
This quantity is now mostly all cut and ready
on section IA, on the eastern division, and will
be Immediately forwarded to where work will
shortly begin, at the end Of the first hundred
miles west"
A dozen to twenty men were doing the top
finish yesterday of the st. Paul 6 Omaha
headquarters building.
Quite number of the unfortunates who
have been long blockaded in the southwest
counties have escaped by pedestrian feats,
compared to which the exploits of the six-day
professional walkers were easy. Mr.. Henry
T. Drake, who arrived from Mankato by the
train yesterday, had been five weeks beyond
ing from Worthington, drawing his luggage
ali the. way on a hand sled), through and over
the snow to Madelia, where he was able to
hire team TO bring him to Mankato. Mr.. G..
W. slayton, after being snow bound two or
three weeks at Worthington, walked from that
place to LIE Mars, Iowa, and took quarters for
the season at the latter place, where he can
pursue his studies and practice of English
styles or keep up his own peculiar habit by
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