Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-26
BMIGRANTS
lNBEuNAiTON MEETIhGS HELD al
THE UNION DEPOT.
The snow Storms mp North Blockade The
Roads and Prevent Their Being Moved
"A Serious Situation But one that Can
not be Helped

- "A SeElOub SAtuhehOO hSue VAAo ~" 80.
not DO Helped
It is well known to the readers of the
GLOBE that for about month large en-
igration from Canada has been passing
through st. Paul for Manitoba. Proba-
bly, not less than twenty thousand people
have gone through. At IL O'Clock last
Friday noon twelve or fifteen hundred
emigrants arrived and expected to go
right through, but in this they were disap-
pointed, and for the reasons stated below,
and over which no human being had con-
troll, they were compelled to remain in
St. Paul. Through mistaken idea
these people became dissatisfied and held
an indignation meeting and passed a
series Of resolutions condemning the rail-
roads. It is currently reported that
this degree of dissatisfaction has been
infamed, and really produced by three
men who came up on the Rock Island
road. Of course the people were i'm
patient to leave st. Paul and reach their
destination. Friday afternoon was long
one to them, and Friday evening was still
longer. The leaders and influential men
of the party consulted with the railroad
officials, but could not get away, owing
to the fact that the storms in the upper
country were so severe that the trains
were delayed, and consequently the nee
essary cars could not be had To accom-
modate this great and unexpected move
ment of people, who came by the thous-
and, with sixty or seventy cars of lug
gage, the St. Paul g. Manitoba road has
ransacked the whole United States to OBJ
tam cars. and, as was stated yesterday,
has even been forced to buy
second hand cars from the New York
Central road, and yet with fifty or sixty
cars tied up in the upper country the
road has been compelled to submit to the
misfortune that it could not avoid. Be-
coming dissatisfied with this delay, and
not fully understanding the whole facts
of the case, these emigrant5, who are q
very intelligent. quiet, orderly and we'll
behaved people, held meeting between
IL and O'Clock Friday night, at the
Union depot, and adopted the following
preamble and resolution:
WHEREAS, The ladies and gentlemen and
children present of the province of Ontario to
the number of upwards of 500, were induced
by the representatives of the Great Western
railway to engage passage to Winnipeg via
the Great Western railway, the Chicago &
Northwestern railway, and st. Paul s. Mani
tOba railway; and
WHEREAS, On our arrival at st. Paul on
Friday, the 2ith inst, at IL O'Clock noon, it
appears, and was so stated by the superinten-
dent OF the st. Paul and Manitoba railway,
that they had 40 cars for the transport of the
said passengers over their road to Manitoba,
and further that the Northwestern railway
was urged to let their cars go through to our
destination, which they refused, thereby COM
pelling the. said passengers. to remain at the
depot during the following night with out
sleeping accommodating, and also thereby
causing the colonists, particularly those who
had large families, great amount OF unnec-
essary expense, which they were lily able to
afford. And further. that from the statement
of the superintendent of the st. Paul & Mani
toba railway, it was uncertain when they
would be able to carry us through; therefore
Resotped, That we consider all the said rail-
ways are deserving of the censure OF this as
sembly; particularly the st. Paul & Manitoba
railway in not providing cars for the imme-
diate transportation of the passengers to their
destination, and inasmuch as the Chicago &;
Northwestern refused to allow their cars to
60 through when urged to do so, we advise
all persons contemplating going to the North
west to avoid going by the Chicago & North
western railway.
Yesterday morning another meeting
was held, and delegation of three
was appointed to wait upon the Off
GERS of the st. Paul & Man
itoba road. The committee called
upon Assistant Manager Ives of that road,
who received them kindly and listened
patiently to their grievances and SYM
pathized with them in their misfortune.
He explained to them the circumstances
of the extraordinary demands upon the
company, caused by the large and in
creasing number Of immigrants coming
through. and the delay occasioned by the
unexpected storms in the upper country
which tied up the cars; that had it not
been for the storms the road could have
handled all of them and moved them out.
They also called upon Mr.. Davis, assist
ant general passenger agent Of the St.
Paul & Manitoba road, who made sim
liar explanation to the committee Both
Mr.. Ives and Mr. Davis assured the gen
tlemen that the officers of the road would
do all in their power to move the people
forward The gentlemen seemed to ap-
UTECIdLC IuC LULU LuC StdtCnlCuIS
made to them, and manifested DISPOSE
ton to make the best Of it. It was in
tended to send them out last night but
the trains on the Nortern Pacific and the
st. Paul g. Manitoba were again inter
rupted by another storm which came up
on them Friday night. This storm like
the preceding one consisted of high
wind, severe cold, and fall of snow
The snow was not heavy one but what
little there was drifted by the wind
into the cuts and impeded the progress of
the trains to such an extent that 1t was
impossible to get through. Fortunately
the snow is Of light character and not
large in quantity, so that the railroad
managers hope to move these people
forward to-day 1t is evident that the
railroad officials are doing all they can to
relieve these people and to do justice by
them and to move them along as
fast as possible. The Northwestern road
directed and stipulated that these cars
which brought the emigrants from Chi
cago to st. Paul should not proceed any
further than. to ST. Paul This is COM
planned of by the emigrants but the
Northwestern justifies itself for this
with the fact which is undeniable, that
they must have their cars right back to
Chicago just as soon as possible 80 that
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