Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-24

Noon trains from Chicago cane %; 4
little late yesterday. on account - eau
tous running through the Wet regions.
MI Chas Graham, artist, wa, sketch
jag the Short Line bridge Yesterday after
noon, for the Harpers.
beginning Monday of next week there
viii be five trains daily between st Paul
And Saltwater on he Lake Elmo line
The Fergus FaIls division Of the st.
Paul & Manitoba -ailwaY has passed
through the spring breakup without
damage, all the rivers crossing the road
having cleared themselves Of ice without
Overlooking their ranks. Ii the Red
River country near Breckenridge and
aOrth of Glyndon, the breckenridge and
81. Vincent divisions continue to be
tC0ubled by the rapid melting OF the SHOW,
nat it is claimed that no serious damage
~ the railway has occurred.
The Northern Pacific trains OF yesteC-
day and Friday rolled through lakc-like
exDanse of water, which covered the
jcack and farms for eight TO ten miles be-
tween Williams side track and Dial
eymplc, Dakota, but were not much de-
aycd, and all went and came through
safely
beginning May I, the Omaha company
VIII run exclusively passenger trains
daily on its North Wisconsin road, which
will leave ST. Paul At 1915 q M, arrive
a. Cable, the end Of the rack, at S;l5 p
IN, and leaving Cable at G a N will ar
rive at St Paul at. 3:3j p. ii The two
trains will probably meet at Boardman.
The telegraph operators were unable
Yesterday to restore the wire across the
Dcs Moines river, and Therefore no fur
Ghcr information could be had as
o. the condition of the st.
Pau 81 Omaha line west Of hat
ever The river is over It's banks, run
mag furiously anu carrying q good deal
0. solid ice, 50 that nothing can yet be
done towards saving the bridge, which
still hangs to the eastern pier The Wa
I0nwan was also so high and fierce 4 food
that nothing could be done yesterday to-
wards Strengthening thc bridge, which
was decided Friday to be unsafe The
Blue Earth was falling yesterday at Blue
Earth City and it is hoped the floods ali
along the line will 90 no higher. Garden
City is still floodeI and come Of the
buildings have been damaged. The st
Peter depot is accessible only by boats.
Passenger trans were run yesterday be
tween st. Paul and Mankato and between
@anlato and Blue Earth City, and 4
freight tram was run from Window 20
~ James The snow Is fast disappearing
and nearly gone all along the line.
Mir Bellows, the Northern Pacific CON
tractor, came down from Mandan yester
day 10 stay few days in st. Paul while !
he I,n wi
d vision to subSide. He represents that |
the hood damages to the roadwsy-waSh
jng Of embellishments and carrying out Oh |
bridges and culvertS-CannOt well befUlly |
repaired under month. But fortunately |
the last two trains sent out over the !
division. Just before the overflow Of the |
rivers, were loaded with men and teams, |
and, the supplies at the front being |
abundant, the grading for the road in the
Yellowstone valley will be vigorously
prosecuted without interruption. Mr..
Bellows tells that the great
field of thick ice which was piled
in front of Mandan by the Missouri. the
last Of March has lately disappeared
with wonderful rapidity. Mandan, he
says, lays higher than the bottom lands
opposite and below Fort LenCOln, and it
would not have been flooded had not ice
gorgcs stopped the water from running
over the bottoms. The people Of Man
daa, in specializing as to the future, in
view of the possibility Of another such .
breakup occurring, anticipate that the
railroad track behind the town Will have
to be raised a foot, which will be enough
to protect them from Heart river, while
the building of the railroad bridge wiz
require for preservation Of its western
approach, the construction Of ! dyke
from the bridge to the bluff, w1lch viii
protect them from the Missouri They
are. therefore, rot at al discouraged but
VIII go ahead improving 3nd budding
tSiciT town.