Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-08
RAILWAY NOTES.

Inc St' faul " Omaha Line open at Last
Arrival OF Train from Sioux City, the
First for Seven Weeks-Rumor That
Frank Purdy, Baggagemaster. Died BY
Poison Instead Of BY An Accident--Im-
migrants, Personals. Etc.
The Northern Pacific contractors put
plows and scrapers at work On the grad
ing OF the Yellowstone division three
weeks ago, and found the frost fully out
OF the ground in that favored region over
two weeks ago.
Charley &c. L. Weed, the well-known
baggageman of the st. p, NJ. e. NJ, has
been appointed to and will, Monday next,
enter upon the duty of Northwestern nail
driver for the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul company That is to say, he will
attend to the advertising interests of the
Milwaukee company throughout the
region of country assigned to Northwest
ern Passenger Agent Dixon.
A special train of nine or more coaches,
loaded with Manitoba emigrants, left
Chicago yesterday afternoon BY the Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway.
Mr.. Charles Cady, superintendent Of
the Dwight farm, was in the city yester-
day to meet party of young farmers
from Owego, n. Y, who are going onto
the Dwight company's lands to work
them this season. Twenty-Five of the
party, including one family, arrived here
yesterday morning, and will proceed with
Mr.. Cady to-day to Dwight station on
the Breckenridge extension, and twenty
five men, who left Owego Wednesday
morning, will probably arrive here to-
day, to follow. them to Dwight to
morrow.
The Green Bay & Minnesota company,
which, In anticipation Of building ST.
Paul connection has changed its name to
the Green Bay, Winona & st. Paul COM
pany, proposes to build through Buffalo,
Pepin and Pierce counties, Wis, in
which event it will probably cross into
Washington county, Mimi, at or near
Prescott.
At last we can say that the snow and
ice blockade of the st. Paul 81 Omaha
line has been raised, passenger train
which left Sioux City yesterday morning
having passed st. James at 6 P. NJ. which
would bring 1t in here about O'Clock
this morning, while the train which left
here at $3.50 P. NJ, has gone on to Sioux
City, being due there this morning This
is better than was expected yesterday
noon, when it was reported that snow was
falling all along the line, and In places
drifting The road was finally cleared at
6 P. ", and at 7:30 p NJ. soft and generally
mild weather was reported from Mountain
Lake west, as follows:
Sioux City-Cloudy and damp.
LIE Mars-Rainy. with a little wind
from the northeast.
Sheldon-Cloudy. Looks like rain.
Bigelow-Cloudy and sleety but mild
MISUNDERSTANDING but mild
Heron Lake-Cloudy; showing quite
hard; calm.
Windom-Snowing quite hard; mild.
Mountain Lake-Snowing little; no
wind.
These reports do not threaten renewal
Of the blockade, and it may be calculated
that the road is open for the season. But
it cannot be restored to its full efficiency
until side tracks, water tanks, turn tables,
etc., have all been put in good order
Meantime the delayed business will call
for all the rolling stock of the road and
crowd the line with about as many trains
as can be handled Attention will now be
turned to the Sioux Falls and Rock River
branches and these will be restored as
soon as possible. If the rains which have
set in at the southwest should extend to
Southern Dakota the work would be
shortened, but railroad men would rather
dig away the snow than to have it washed
away for them. There is possibility of
too much washing
1t is now reported that Mr.. Frank
Purdy, late baggage master on the l.
& D. division of the NJ & st. P. railway,
who was first reported as found dead on
the track at or near Eagle Station, Wis,
(near Waukesha), was not killed by the
cars, but died in hotel at Eagle, as a
post mortem examination showed, from
poison. His friends await the confrma-
ton or disproval of this later report with
anxious desire to know the truth.