Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-03

senger agent of the Northwestern rail
way, late OF the St. Paul s. Duluth, came
back to St. Paul yesterday for visit with
his family.
Mr. VIM. G. Vests connection with the
St. Paul s. Duluth road, as paymaster,
closed yesterday. His successor has aot
yet been appointed
The ST. Paul &c Duluth company will
tomorrow place & large crew of
men at work ballastinG the Taylor's Falls
branch between Center City and Taylors
Falls, and otherwise putting the branch
in best working order.
The weather conditions along the St
Paul g. Duluth road, since the early
February storms, have been quite
favorable for the work upon
which the management was most
anxious to enter early in the season-the
general improvement Of the bed and re-
laying of the track. Three crews of
trackmen are at work on the main line,
replacing the old rails with new steel
rails The main line from St. Paul to
Hinckley and from the Northern Pacific
junction to Duluth will be wholly relaid
with steel, while the track between
Hrnckley and the junction, which has
been less used thar the other sections,
will be improved by relaying wherever
necessary. The work Of the season, as
entered upon, will include such other
improvements Of the roadway as to make
substantially g reconstruction of the whole
line.
The Morris IL Browns Valley branch
Of the ST. Paul s. Manitoba railway s
shut up again by snow and ice, after hav-
ing been cleared before the last storm, al
but about two miles.
The Breckenridge division Of the St.
Paul& Manitoba was not opened through
on Friday, as was expected, fresh wind
having delayed operations. 1t was pro5-
ably opened yesterday.
The St. Paul d Chicago train due at
noon yesterday came in two hours late,
having been detained on the Northwest
egn road. 1t brought two cars of imrni-
grants, mostly ticketed for Dakota, over
the Northern Pacific.
The big Immigrant train spoken OF
yesterday, coming by the Milwaukee 81
St Paul road, arrived at La Crosse about
P n. yesterday and was expected to
reach here about daylight this morning.
Most of the passengers, nearly six hun
dred, are ticketed over sthe st. Paul g.
Manitoba, TO points in Dakota, Minnesota
and Manitoba. About eighty are ticketed
fOr<N orthern Pacific points,
Unless another blizzard interferes regu-
lar trains will be resumed On the st. Paul
& Omaha line Tomorrow, and passengers
who travel that way before the April
rains come may see the praires still COW
l. IL, foa Of, ox,I
barns and grain stacks covered by great
which they will occasionally pass between
will further serve to show them why it
has been impossible to keep the railroad
open through the windy months o. the
winter
Up to o'clock last evening the result Of
the coroners inquest at Fergus Falls had
not been received at the ST. Paul 81 Man
itOba headquarters, nor could It
be learned that any report of
the causes and circumstances of the acci-
dent had been received there. Through
other sources it is learned that the freight
train was stopped because the engine was
running short Of wood and water
aad had run into Barnesvilie for wood
and water, leaving the train to wait its
return. 1t is also stated that the con
ductor of the freight train had placed
tOrpedoes along the track 10 warn the
passenger engineer Of danger. 1t was,
however, such wild weather morning
that the torpedoes might not be heard,
aad the air was so full of snow that
lights, if displayed, could not have been
seen any distance. One of the passengers
on the the express train says, however,
that the air brakes were ap-
piled in time to have checked the force
Of the express train, but seemed
TO work imperfectly. The engineer of the
express train was MIR. Benson, son of
Hon. Jarel Benson of Anoka, and the
conductor was Mr. NVoolenough Both
have the reputation of being competent
and careful. Should the coroner's in
cuiry show that the collision was caused
by negligence or recklessness, the guilty
person or persons will undoubtedly be
prosecuted. At last accounts the
wounded men were doing well and the
two least injured had proceeded on their
ioGrney.
General Superintendent c. F. Hatch
will, it was reported yesterday, be con-
fined to his bed for some time by his in
iuries which include severe strain of
ais knees It appears that Mr.. Hatch,
accompanied by General Manager
Bishop, Telegraph Superrintend-
ent Hope and Mr.. Johnson, had
undertaken to ride on hand car from
an obstructed cut, seven miles west of
Worthington, to Sibley. Mr. Hatch
stepped his weight upon an icy board at
the front of the hand car and the board
slipping from under his feet threw him
off the car in front when it was moving
with considerable velocity. The car did
not run over him but it bruised him
severely and in his fall he was also
bruised and suffered strain of his knee,
He will be brought home on the first train
through, probably to-day.
AT ID P. NJ. last night light snow was
I failing at Moorhead. The railroad men
I Interested will deyoutly hope to-day that
there was not much of it.
General Hermann Haupt, who is re-
ported to have been elected to succeed
/ Mr.. Sargent as general manager of the
/ Northern Pacific road, is not personally
known to railroad men in St. Paul, but is
known to them as the author of several
works on engineering topics, his best
known work being Minnesota for En-
gineers." From other sources 1t is learn.
ed that he was born at PHILADELPHIA In