Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
RAIL AND RIVER NEWS.

A change of the time table goes into
effect on the St. Paul & Duluth road to-
day.
Aid. T. j. Mccarthy, ticket agent OF
the Northern Pacific at Fargo, came to
st. Paul yesterday.
There was some trouble and delay IN
the upper levee yards yesterday from a
car being off the track.
Two or three freight cars being of the
track, the Omaha express coming east
yesterday was delayed ten hours.
Eau Clare is the second railroad town
in Wisconsin, being exceeded in the rev.
enue to railroads by Milwaukee only.
General Manager Hill, of the st. Paul
81 Manitoba road, and Mr.. Marvel, his
assistant, have gone north, to be absent
until Wednesday next.
The NJ. & ST. L. bridge over Sand
creek in Scott county, three miles from
Jordan, was carried away by the rain
flood on Thursday night.
The St. Paul & Duluth company has
repaired the break in its track, near Fond
du Lac, and trains were again moving
out on the regular time yesterday.
About 1900 tons of up-river freight
are said to be piled at Bismarck landing,
waiting for boats, but there are no low
water boats, and the river is very low.
J.B. Clarke, Esq, general traffic man
ager of the Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha
railway, sailed for home from Bremen the
2Sth nit, on the fast steamship, the Elbe.
The washout near Fond du Lac, on the
st. Paul & Duluth read, was fully re-
paired during Friday night and regular
train service was resumed yesterday
morning.
The Morgan party left Detroit Lake
Yesterday afternoon, intending to. run
through to Bismarck last night, and go
to the end of the track on TIE Yellow
stone to day.
Ali the railroads were reported in good
order Yesterday afternoon, but regularity
in operation had not been resumed. This
morning, however, the time cards will be
strictly observed.
All long distance trains coming inyes-
terday were behind time, but railroad
men uniformly declare that their roads
were fully repaired and that their train
since had been regularly resumed.
A collision between freight trains &C.
Cured yesterday, On the Fergus Falls di-
vision of the st. P & NJ. railway. by
which seven or eight cars were broken
up, and the fireman of one had an arm
broken and badly scalded.
A new time table goes into effect on
the Northern Pacific to day, under which
passenger trains will leave St. Paul for
Fargo at a. m. and 7:30 p. IN. The lat
ter train will run through to Bismarck.
The time of the several trains will be
shortened materially.
A special train is to be run to Red
Wing to-day to accommodate members
of the A. o. U. W. who desire to attend
the funeral of G. j. Kinney, a member of
the order, formerly resident of
Minneapolis. The train will leave
st. Paul for Red Wing at $50 a. m. The
funeral takes place in Red Wing at B
p. m.
A collision of freight trains occurred
on the Fergus Falls division of the st.
Paul 81 Manitoba road yesterday in which
two engines were disabled and four cars
of wheat and four cars of baled hay were
smashed. One of the firemen, whose
name could not be learned here, had one
of his arms broken and was badly scalded.
None other of the trainmen were injured.
Walter A. Stiles. cashier of the Chi
cago, St. Paul & Omaha railway company
at Eau Claire, who absconded some two
months ago, carrying away about $4,000
of the company's money, when he was
arrested at Houston, had only one dollar,
but that gold, in his possession. He had
changed his address to S. A. Lewis, but
was caught by his correspondence with a
Hady of Eau Claire.
Rv.