Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-02
MisneILaneoua Rail Notes.

The st. Louis express on the ]. s. NJ. division
of the Milwaukee road, which has been sus-
pended for some time, will leave hereafter at
s:45 P. NJ. daily, except Saturday. Passengers
for Mason City, st. Louis and intermediate
points can hereafter take this train, which is
the latest train out of St. Paul and Mime
apolis for those points.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul railway expects
o train of six or seven hundred emigrants from
Canada, with large amount Of freight, to
reach St. Paul some time to-day. They left
Port Huron Thursday, and are ticketed for
different points in Dakota, Minnesota and
Manitoba-mostly for the province.
General Manager Hill and family, accom-
panied by Mr.. H. P. Upham's family, left
Washington in the elegant official car OF the
Manitoba railway, last evening, expecting to
arrive in St. Paul Monday noon.
Mr.. Walter Wyand, of the Michigan Central,
returned to their offices in this city yesterday,
after pleasant business trip to Winnipeg.
They express themselves as much pleased with
the hospitality of the young city OF the North
and impressed with its remarkable growth and
appearances of prosperity.
The Fergus Falls passenger train on the
Manitoba road, Thursday night, included
twelve coaches, mostly filled with people going
in to settle up Northern Minnesota and
Manitoba. The same night thirty-two
car loads of stock belonging to immigrants
were loaded and sent out from the company g
yards on Como avenue, and all hands about
the freight yards are day and night busy in
transporting freight and making up trains
for the North.
The Northern Pacific passenger train out
last night included seven well filled coaches.
Division Superintendent D. r. Taylor tele-
graphed 20 Northern Pacific headquarters yes
terday from Bismarck, after making an at
tempt to go into Mandan with the steamer
Eclipse, that he found the west bank from the
channel to and beyond Mandan a solid field
of ice At that hour "A P. NJ. } the water was
three feet deep In the main street OF
MADAM, having receded eighteen inches
from the highest point. There
was no loss of life from the food in Mandan,
nor did the people OF that place suffer for
want of PROVISIONS or from the cold. The COM
peny's transfer boat, he said, was all right.
The trains arriving from Chicago yesterday
were delayed by their heavy passenger bust.
ness.
The Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha line has is.
sued its rate sheet for round trip tickets, be.
tween all points east and west of st. Paul:
The deduction from single trip prices Is IL
per cent, and when the Union depot of st.
Paul is completed SO that transfer can be
avoided the round trip system will be applied
| to all divisions without break at st. Paul
that is round trip tickets will be sold between
| stations east and west of St. Paul.
| Train men who were out on the prairiel
Thursday say the storm of that day was the
worst they ever experienced. Capt. Gert
states that when he returned to the car aftel
being out less than ten minutes his face wat
coated with ice. Men could not face the storm
any length of time, and the air was so full o.
particles Of snow and ice that it was impossi
Bile to see objects more than q rod or two
away.
Thursday train for Breckinridge was turned
back from Benson on account of the blockade
beyond that point, but reports of yesterda.
afternoon were to the effect that the tracl
would be cleared in time for the train which
left here yesterday morning to run into Breck
inridge.
The Wisconsin Central company, which be
gan running daily passenger train into st
Paul late last fall, has continued its servic
through the winter with only one short inter
ruption (by SNOWY at this end Of the line-th
train arriving here at 9:15 r. ". and leayins