Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-31
BOREAN BLASTS.
THE EFFECT OF YEsT,E RD4Y,s STORM
ON THE RAILROADS..
All of Them Centerlng in this City More or
Less Observation-Disclosures Suspended in
Many Directions-Sights the Streets
of ST. Paul.

The worst storm that we have yet had
came upon this section of the country yes
terday and the night before, the result of
which was the total suspension of trains
throughout the state last night, and sus-
pension of most of them throughout the
day. The degree. of cold was not so
great as it was during the previous storms
we have had, but the snow and wind was
much worse and rendered all attempts to
run trains on time absolutely impossible.
The storm seems to have come up every
where atthe same time so far as can be as
certained. The Northern Pacific, the st.
Paul & Manitoba, the western portions of
the Chicago, Milwaukee g. st. Paul, the
Sioux City,s the Southern Mime
sofa, the Hastings & Dakota
and the Albert Lea route all felt the storm
about the same time during Monday night.
1t seems to have covered Dakota, Mime
sofa, Nebraska and Iowa all at the same
time. As the snow fell the winds drifted
it very badly, and to such an extent that
railroad men gave up utterly all attempts
to keep their roads open. One example of
how the cleaning of the track worked is
sufficient to illustrate the idea. Mr. Lin
coin, superintendent of the Sioux City di-
vision of the Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha
road, sent working train between LIE
Sueur and ST. James for the purpose of
clearing the track, when he found that the
snow flied in the road behind five feet
deep as fast as they cleared it out. Every
where the snow was falling and
the wind was piling it up
on the tracks. 1t could not possibly
pile it any where else. There was no
place for it except on the rails.
THE BULLETIN BOARD.
At 2:30 yesterday afternoon crowds of
people who wished to leave on different
roads stood closely packed about the
the bulletin board at the Union depot
reading the notes made upon it,
and after they had read them
and studied them over again and again,
they would shoot across the hall and inter
view some railroad official or some officer
of the union depot, for
the purpose of endeavoring to
more than was on the board. The senten-
ces on the board were very short and alto
gether too pithy to be satisfactory, and
read as follows:
Northern Pacific road
Train due 7:40a. m. five hours late.
st. Paul & Manitoba road
Train due at 9:45 a. m, four hours and
half late.
Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha
The Sioux City train due at 1920 p. m.
abandoned.
Sioux City due at II :55, seven hours late.
No. 1 train due at 2:25 p. m.,three hours
late.
Sioux City due to leave at $3.50 aban-
doned.
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
No. due from east, 2:25 half an hour
late.
Owatonna o'clock accommodation train
abandoned.
st. Paul & Duluth road
The 7:30 a. m. train from Duluth arrived
at 10 a. m.
ANOTHER BULLETIN.
A smaller and later contained the follow
ing:
Until further notice the following trains
are abandoned:
On the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul road. The train on the
I. & M. division arriving at 7.45 and de-
parting at 7:10 p. m. The Dutchman ar
irving at $50 p. m. and departing at a..
m. The Minneapolis arriving at Z: 80 a. m.
and departing at 10 p. m.
st. Paul & Manitoba road
The a. N. train that has heretofore run
to Winnipeg will till further notice run to
Fargo only.
CONDITION OF THE ROADS.
The above is sufficient to indicate the
extent of the storm and the severity of its
results. Those who came down on the ST.
Paul Manitoba road yesterday morning
describe the scene all along the route as
remarkable. They declare that it was i'm
possible to see elevator B as the train ap-
preached it. The train that left here Mon
day night for Breckenridge got into Brock
enridge about % minutes behind time
Since its arrival it has not been heard from
owing to the fact that the
lines are down. All freight
trains on the st. Paul & Duluth road
we're laid up as soon as possible after the
storm commenced, and all the energies of
the management were directed to the effort
to get the passenger trains through. The
manager of the road sent the trains out
with two engines each; and, besides, the
road was cleared as we'll as it could be with
the snow pillow. No night trains were sent
out on this road. In the morning
No. went up to Duluth with two engines.
No. 2 left Duluth about o'clock, due here
at $50 p. NJ, got in about 10 last night.
No. 4, that left Daluth Monday night at
$3.50, due in st. Paul at 100 yesterday fore
noon, got i'll at II so. The worst part of
the storm on the Northern Pacific road
seems to have been between st. Paul and
Brainerd. No trains left st. Paul or Fargo
lastnight. Freight trains were laid up. The
Fergus Falls train was three hours late.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis train, due
here at 7:45, had not arrived at night and
the chances for it to get in were very slight
indeed. The train on the Chicago, St.
Paul & Omaha road for the East lay on the
track for several hours yesterday noon in
doubts whether to start or not. The Chi
cago. Milwaukee & st. Paul train, due here
at 1890, got stuck in the snow drifts just
before it reached Union park and was
four hours late. 1t finally
succeeded in getting through. The storm
| is wide spread and very severe and kept
persistently at work showing and blowing
even into last evening The result of the