Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-16
ROLLING WHEELS.
Gradual Lifting of the Snow Blockad.

Gradual Lifting of the Snow Blockade.
1t is reported here, with some authority
that Mr.. c. F. Hatch, general manager 81
the Minneapolis g. st. Louis railway, is
soon to succeed Mr.. E. W. Winter as gen.
eral superintendent IF the st. Paul &
Omaha line, and that Mr. Winter is to
succeed Mr. E. F. Drake as vice president
Of the several companies being consolidat-
ed in the st. Paul & Omaha line, with
authority as chief executive officer over
the whole line. A secondary rumor to
the effect that Mr.. J. w. Bishop, general
manager of the St. Paul & Omaha line,
is about to retire, probably to accept a
prominent position for the NJ & st. L.
company, appears to have no foundation
other than in the rumor concerning
Messrs Hatch and Winter.
At midnight of last night the situation
on the Sioux City road was briefly as fol-
lows: The working train from the St.
Paul division, directed by Capt. Gear, su-
perintendent of the St. Paul division, af-
ter opening up the road to within two and
half miles of Mountain Lake station,
was hauled off for the night. Capt. Gear
was in hopes to reach Mountain Lake by
9 or 10 O'Clock this morning if the weather
remained favorable But at midnight the
wind was blowing and the
snow again drifting into the cuts,
not enough to stop operations,
but enough to cause some uneasiness as
to what to-day would bring forth. About
ninety men are employed with the one
working train and all the help that can be
had is hired. The advance working train
from the other direction yesterday reach
ed the vicinity of Bingham Lake and laid
up last night at Window. Unless the
weather is unfavorableit it is hoped this
train will to-day open up the road from
the West to Mountain Lake meeting there
Capt. Gears train. But there is, for three
or four miles west from Mountain Lake,
a succession of deep cuts, which
are filled full with hard
packed snow, and the weather
promise Of last night was unfavorable,
there being quite astrong wind at Win
dom and good deal of snow flying. The
St. Paul division and Blue Earth branch
were regularly operated yesterday and
passenger trains of to-day, leaving St.
Paul at regular hours, will run to St.
James and to Blue Earth City. Freights
are also being moved on the opened road
and placed in position for rushing bus
mess when the line is opened through
General Manager Sargent is absent
from his office on a trip to Fargo and
west
1t is related by one of the travellers who
doesn't understand why railroad mana
gers so persistently conceal information
as 10 the condition of their roads when
blockaded by snow or interrupted in oper-
alton by train accidents, that an enter
prising photographer out west secured a
good negative of a beautiful sight--the
effect of snow plow, driven by two pow
erful locomotives at full speed, upon a
great snow drift between two elevators
at prairie station The picture, if
printed, would have shown two great
arches of snow sent by the plow clear
over the elevators, but the pictures were
not printed, for the photographer was in
duced to sell his negative to one of the
railroads officials for S75