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

Noon trains from Chicago came II
little late yesterday, on account OF eau
tious running through the wet regions
Mr.. Chas. Graham, artist, was sketch
ing the Short Line bridge yesterday after
noon, for the Harpers.
Beginning Monday of next week there
will be five trains daily between st. Pau
and Saltwater on the Lake Elmo line,
The Fergus Falls division of the St
Paul & Manitoba railway has passed
through the spring breakup without
damage, all the rivers crossing the road
having cleared themselves of ice without
overhowing their banks. In the Red
River country near Breckenridge and
north of Glyndon, the Breckenridge and
St. Vincent divisions continue to be
troubled by the rapid melting of the snow,
but it is claimed that no serious damage
to the railway has occurred.
The Northern Pacific trains of yester-
day and Friday rolled through lake-like
expanse of water, which covered the
teack and farms for eight to ten miles be-
tween Williams side track and Dal-
rymple, Dakota, but were not much de-
layed, and all went and came through
safely.
Beginning May I, the Omaha company
will run exclusively passenger trains
daily on its North Wisconsin road, which
will leave St. Paul at 1915 a. M, arrive
at Cable, the end of the track, at 8:15 p.
IN, and leaving Cable at q. m, will ar
rive at st. Paul at. 1886 p. III. The two
trains will probably meet at Boardman
The telegraph operators were unable
yesterday to restore the wire across the
Des Moines river, and therefore no fur
ther information could be had as
to the condition of the st.
Paul 81 Omaha line west of that
river. The river is over its banks, run
ming furiously and carrying good deal
OF solid ice, so that nothing can yet be
done towards saving the bridge, which
still hangs to the eastern pier The Wa
tonwan was also so high and fierce food
that nothing could be done yesterday to-
wards strengthening the bridge, which
was decided Friday to be unsafe, The
Blue Earth was falling yesterday at Blue
Earth City and it is hoped the floods all
along the line will go no higher. Garden
City is still flooded and come of the
buildings have been damaged. The st.
Peter depot is accessible only by boats.
Passenger trains were run yesterday be-
tween st. Paul and Mankato and between
Mankato and Blue Earth City, and a
freight train was run from Window to,I
st. James. The snow is fast disappearing
and nearly gone all along the line.
Mr. Bellows, the Northern Pacific con-
tractor, came down from Mandan yester-
do tn or foy n iy, MI uyhi 10
waiting for the floods on the Missouri |
division to subside. He represents that |
the flood damages to the roadway-Wash- |
ing of embankments and carrying out Of |
bridges and oulverts-cannot well be fully |
under month. But fortunately /
the last two trains sent out over the /
division, just before the overflow of the I
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
gorges stopped the water from running
over the bottoms. The people Of Man
dan, in speculating as to the future, in
view of the possibility of another such a |
breakup occurring, anticipate that the
railroad track behind the town will have
to be raised foot, which will be enough
to protect them from Heart river, while
the building of the railroad bridge will
require for preservation Of its western
approach, the construction of a dyke
from the bridge to the bluff, winch will
protect them from the Missouri. They
are, therefore, not at all discouraged but
Will go ahead improving and building
tdeir town.