Daily globe., 1881-03-04


General Manager Sargent received dispatches
yesterday announcing that the break up on
the headwaters of the Yellowstone is COM
.plete and that the Yellowstone was rising fast.
Miles City is said to be four feet under water
and the residents were flying to the cliff. At
Fort Benton the Missouri was beginning to
break up and at Bismarck the railroad people
who are at work on the ice have begun to i'm.
aslne that 1t is thawing.
Mr.. j. G. Boyden, the Milwaukee & st. Paul
at St. Paul, appears to be
q winter Jonah for railroads. He has
had two journeys during the winter, on each
of which he was accompanied by a complete
blockade. After resting from his last exploit,
the blockade of the Sioux City road for six
day night and at once terrific snow storm
set in in the Lake Michigan
region, blockading all Eastern
roads. A meeting of railroad superintendents
was proposed to be held this morning with
the view of bringing Boyden home and caging
him until the July sun gives guaranty against
snow blockades. No road can be operated IN
winter when he travels. But the idea was
abandoned on assurance of personal friends
bndG HIS luISSlOu GaSI WdS w lOOh ioi AolS
Claxton, whose journeys are thought to be
accompanied by hotel fires. The theory OF
the friends is that If the two extremes, fire
and snow, are brought together, nothing
worse than flood will happen and the floods
the railroad men are expecting. But they
think the snow blockade ought to close about
these days.
Snow plows were kept at work through
Wednesday night on the st. Paul & Duluth
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put through on time. The weather along the
line was moderate during the day, with nc
snow moving.
On the St. Paul & Manitoba lines the
weather yesterday was favorable and all trains
were in motion with little, delay. The only
track closed was the Browns Valley branch
which has not been uncovered since the storm
of ten days ago.
On the Northern Pacific yesterdayno seriou;
delays occurred, the road being generally cleal
of obstruction.
The st. Paul dsvision of the st. Pau
& Omaha line was obstructed yesterday by
fresh local storm which prevailed between
Madelia and Worthington, and the st. Pau
train instead of going through to st. James
was turned back at Lake Crystal. The Sioux
City division was opened last night to Worth
ington, and it was hoped the whole line
Sioux City to st. Paul, might be opened to
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and frequent.
The St. Paul g. Omaha's eastern division was
open yesterday to Elroy, but the Chicago
Northwestern connections through Wiscon
sin and Illinois were closed by the great snow
storm which prevailed over all the Lake Michi
gan basin and extended into the States adjoin
ing. No train was sent out last night ant
none is expected this morning. AT P. NJ
yesterday the train dispatcher of the North
western company at Chicago telegraphed tina
it was impossible to move any trains.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul company's shor
line to Chicago by Lacrosse was similarl,
blocked by the Lake Michigan storm, and St
Paul trains reached only to Lacrosse. Th
condition of the company's roads across Wis
Consin at Up. NJ. was such as to give littl
hope that either one would be opened to-day
The following circular was issued yesterda.
from the general Offices of the line named il
this city: Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis {
Omaha line; President 'sgOffice, rooms Is ant
16, Portland block, Chicago, March 1, 1851
Mr.. Z. W. Winter is appointed assistant t.
president, with his Office in st. Paul. Mr.
Chas. F. Hatch is appointed Mr.. Winter
successor as general Superintendent. Thes
appointments will take effect March 9, 1881.
H. II. PORTER, President.