Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-25
RAILROAD NOTES.

Auo o. L du1 o. Oulutn ROAD Is all f1Snt.
Geo. K. Barnes, general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific road, has gone to
Chicago.
The storm that has cansed so much
trouble to the roads seems to have eased
up yesterday on the roads that run up into
the Northwest and settled down upon the
roads in the southern part of the state and
in Iowa.
The ST. Paul & Manitoba is in just the
same condition that the Northern Pacific
is, and the same remarks apply to it with
equal force. The 7 80 a. M train due in
St. Paul was three hours late The $50
train was one hour and half late
S. F. Boyd, general travelling and passen-
ger agent; Joseph Gaskell, treasurer; f.
W. Partridge, auditor, and w. Fl. Trues-
dale, assistant treasurer of the Minneapo-
lis d st. Louis road, were in st. Paul yes
terday.
The Hastings & Dakoto road yester-
day was blocked up and all attempts
to run trains was wholly
and hopelessly abandoned. The snow was
piled up everywhere and the wind was
bowling and the snow flying all along the
line.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
river division was pretty nearly on time
with its trains. The train due here at 1925
P. m. was little late, while the trains on
the Iowa 81 Minnesota division, the Hast
ings & Dakota division and the Southern
Minnesota road were all abandoned.
In tie early fall quite large number of
the people who have settled in the Red
river valley, took occasion to make trip
over to the old country to see their. rela-
tives and spend with them a part of the
winter. These people have written nu-
merous letters to the emigration depart
ment of the st. Paul & Manitoba
road in which they say the emigration will
be much larger than ever before during
the present year, and asking for printed
matter giving information about the
country along the Red river valley and
the DEVILS lake country.
The Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha road,
owing to hard wheeling, is also behind.
The 6:15 incoming morning train was
three hours late. The 1926 p. m. train was
one and one-half hour late. The Sioux
City train on the western division, due
here at II :55, was one hour and half late.
This is the through train from Kansas
City and shows the whole road
to be open the whole length
of the route. Of course, it
is to be expected that in fighting such ex-
traordinary storms as these that have
swept across the country during the last
week or two, that there will be some de-
lays.
About the same may be said of the Iowa
& Minnesota division of the Chicago, Mile
waukee & st. Paul. For several days travel
has been more or less interfered with on
this division and it was expected that the
road would be open yesterday, but the
managers of the road were disappointed.
Instead of being opened it was wholly
blocked up and no one could form any
idea of how long it would have to remain
in that condition. Judge Chandler was
compelled to admit that it was
bad block The information re-
ceived of the condition of the
road is in substance that it was blowing,
showing and drifting everywhere.
The Albert Lea route is again open to
travel, For two or three days this popu-
lar route has been blocked up somewhere
on the line of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
u Northern road, and the consequence is
that the passengers by that route
have been taken through to Chicago by the
Royal Route. The northern end of the
roulette Minneapolis & st. Louis road
has always been open with no distractions
at all, but further down on the road there
were Instructions that shut the road up
completely. The Minneapolis & ST. Louis
train left on time yesterday morning, and
the Chicago train arrived on time. The
Fort Dodge line is open and trains will go
through to-day.
The Northern Pacific road is all right
again, and, in fact has been for several
days. For the last two or three days all
the trains, including freight as we'll as
passenger, have been running just as regu-
larly as ever, though, of course, they have
not been run as close to schedule
time as they are run in pleasant
weather. The wheeling has been so hard
and the cold so severe that the trains have
necessarily been somewhat delayed. The
managers Of the road have accomplished
splendid results in this respect. There are
so many difficulties to encounter in the
upper country that the trains due in st.
Paul were somewhat late, and will,
in all probability, continue late
for several days more before the road and
the weather will permit of regular time be-
ing made.