Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-18
BLIZZARD RETURNS.
The Great Storm Came TO
an End Lass Night.
To-Day the Work of Restoring
Communications is in
Progress.
Railroads are Still Blockaded
and no Trains have been
Moving To-day


and no Trains have been
Moving To-day
After its allotted three days ran tae
blizzard has subsidized and nature has
assumed that dooile and smiling Enain
which always follows her extraordinary
storm efforts in this portion of the world.
But for the monumental evidences on
every side OF q tremendous froiic of the
elements the observer of to.day's n
ditions would not imagine that there
was ever q possibility of anything
tumultuons in the weather department.
of Dakota. The calm which follows the
storm is laden with the peace which in
yokes full forgiveness and speedy forget
~fuiness OF past misdeeds. Abe gale
continued during most of last nlght,driv-
ing the snow in binding clouds, but the
sky was clear and after the moon rose
the scene without was on9 of arctic
splendor.
To-day has been largely devoted to
clearing the sidewalks and opening the
streets within the city. Along the north
sides of the east and west streets and
the west sides of the north and south
streets immense drifts of snow were left
by the blizzard and TO dig through this
accumulation and clear the way fol
pedestrian Is a labor of time. Some OF
onr respected cltizsus have
not yet entered upon the
task, while others Were promptly on the
scene with their snow shoveis. The
effects OF the great storm canaot be obs
liberated 10 u siuglo dpy. BUSINESS has
been generally resumed to-day with City
customers, but the rural trade has not
yet reacted In favor of the seller. Farm
ers have not dug their way ont OF their
castles far enough to invade the domain
of commercial transactions Informa,
ton from the country is consequently q
scarce commodity to-day and the inter-
estIng story of the blizzard out OF the
unprotected p~rairies remains unwritten.
1t is not expected that there has been
any suffering in this old settled, well
prepared neighboihood, but farther
away, in the more newly populated
regions. the storm probably found some
victims.
RAILROADS.
The railroads still remain showed in
and no trains have been running to-day
on either line.
On the Milwaukee road orders were TO
attempt no movements of trains. Con-
ductor Jackson's passenger train could
probably have reached Sioux ssCity, ii
the attempt had been made, but it hap
pened that all the locomotives IN the
round house are healed west and the
turntable was so hopelessly showed il
chat it has taken a leya work to In,
cover it. This morpita . locomotive
was sent out to the buried tlaia nea,
the insane asylum and the train
was hauled into the city
and the long storm seige lifted for itt
unlucky passengers. Several attempts
were made yesterday to send q locomo
tive to the relief of this train, but it wei
impossible to get q out of the rount
house. Last night rations for forty
eight hours were sent out to the train 1,
provide against possible contingencies
The twenty passengers in the coacl
have had q m%onotonous experience, bu
have noe suffered. They were supplied
with food by the insane asylum people
, and the snow fences along the road KEEP
them in fuel after the regulu
supply was exhausted. There were tw,
stock cars in this train. but food wa
carried out TO the stock yesterday. i
transporting creature comforts betwee,
the city and the snowei in train M. Z
DeCamp and his force have rendere
most valuable service. breaking throug
the snow mountains with teams and col
: veying needed supplies to passenger
Q and stock. The train and its passenger
u spent two nights in the snow bank, an
are now back to the point whence the
. departed Tuesday afternoon, The locomt
u tive which left this train Tuesday nigt
u and started for Lesterville died in
. drift seven miles out and remained the
. all night. The engineer and frema
pulled the fire and occupied the fire be
u during the night, where they kept then
q selves comfortable. Yesterday the
u made their way back TO the town. III
% train which vas showed in near SEQ
land Tuesday night has not been heal
IS from, No trains are moving on the /
n d division east OF Mitchell, but a ira
st was sent westward from Mitchell til
forenoon. On the Siol
Falls line everything
at a standstill. It is expected th
Conductor Jackson's train will leave I
m morrow morning for Sioux City ov
the Milwaukee. He can easily q
through as far as the Sioux City blu.
to and can probably reach his destinati
without much delay. So we may e
poet 8 mali tomorrow night.
oy There is no immediate prospect
Air trains over the N%orthwestern. The
is a long drift tweye feet deep to sho'
mt out between Yolin's and Wakonda ant
raj drift ten feet deep and 140 +,
r. long between Centreville and Beresfo
The accommodation train showed