St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-18
ALONG THE RAILROADS.
Trains on the Omaha Abandoned in
Some Iustauces.- The Storm Along
other Lines.

Some 1nstances.- The Storm Along
other Lines.
The business OF railways was not as much
interfered with as il was feared it would
be by the storm. and all trains but one. came
through. up 10 last evening. without having
encountered any serious obstruction. 1t
was an interesting sight however. 10 wit
ness the incoming trains. The snow was
very solid and little damp. so that it had
a good. adhesive quality all the way through
and STAYED where il fell. The trains. and
especially the engines. as they came in
looked as though they had run through
snow bank. The snow was packed down
upon the engine and cab as though ii had
been placed there with shovel and pasted
on. Some OF these early morning trains
were a little late but they all made better
time than was expected OF course. there
was very natural unwillingneSs on the
part of the St. Paul and Chicago lines 10
admit that there was any delay at all.
THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL.
The officers Of this road we're congratu-
lating themselves that their road was laid
where the storm did not come and that
their trains came through on time. The
snow was very light on this road. and no
sufficient TO make any delay IN trains.
MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS.
The snow fell a good deal along this line,
but not in such quantities as 10 interfere in
the least degree with the running OF trains,
except between St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Between these TWO points the running OF
trains was delayed a good deal during most
Of the forenoon. but by noon the regularity
of the running OF trains was about the same
as usual.
BURLINGTON & NORTHERN.
The morning train on this road was de-
laved for a brief period down somewhere
near Newport, where an extra series OF
heavy snow drifts had accumulated. They
were soon removed. and the train reached
the union depot II due time.
THE MANITOBA ROAD.
The Manitoba trains, like those on the
Northern Pacific. were not interfered with
by the storm. The trains OF this road were
all on time, or 50 nearly so as 10 make no
difference At AnOka and Elk River a
little snow fell. and the farther north the
trains went the less they saw Of the storm.
At ST. Cloud only two inches of SHOW fell.
and none was to be seen in the Red River
valley. There was no snow on the Northern
division. The morning train from Breck-
enridge arrived twenty minutes late. but
this was owing TO the fact that il LETT
Breckenridge twenty minutes late. 1t lost
no time in consequence Of the storm.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.
There has been no delay whatever in the
trains on this road. The storm barely
touched Brainerd. where it stopped. North
and west OF that point there were no traces
of a storm. AT jamestown. Oak. the
mercury registered 20 : above and the sun
was shining brightly. II was reported that
il was growing colder. and at Dawson il is
reported that the mercury stood at I :
below.
MILWAUKEE ST. PAUL ROAD.
This road suffered some on its river divis-
ion and also on the Hastings & Dakota di-
vision. The morning train was delayed an
hour or more near Langdon BY a train
either wholly or partly of the track. On
the other divisions there was some incon-
venience on account OF the snOwstorm.
The short line trains between here and
Minneapolis were also delayed somewhat.
THE OMAHA LINE.
This line was the worst sufferer of all
and from what was learned OF the work of
the storm on this road the fact is pretty
clearly shown that The storm came up from
the southwest and the south. and swept
across toward the northeast 1t may be
stated in a general way that on the northern
and eastern divisions Of this road no incOn-
venience was experienced. On the Sioux
Citv division all business was suspended
southwest of WoTthingt0n. On the eastern
division considerable snow fell as far east
as Elroy. Between Elroy and Eau Clare
there was a good deal of snow fell. prob
L. -f,,, mir nd ?
had drifted some, in many places from
one to three feet. At Bayfield, it showed
all night and was drifting badly. with the
mercury from twenty-five TO thirty above.
At the other end of the road, all through
the Sioux City. Western and Nebraska di-
visions there was a cessation of business.
The through train that left St Paul Tues
day night was al Sioux City yesterday
afternoon. and il has been determined TO
keep il there till the storm is over. The
train that should have left Sioux City AT II
D. N. Tuesday. and due al St. Paul at 11:30
Wednesday morning, was abandoned al
Sioux City. All the freight trains on the
west end of the Sioux City division were
abandoned. The storm seems to have
struck the Omaha road in Nebraska first
and worked this way. The snow is heavy
and badly drifted all along the lire The
train NO. u that left St Paul on
Wednesday night at 6 o'clock, went
only TO Mankato. where it found
the storm so violent and the snow
so badly drifted that 1t could go
no further. AT Sioux City. at II a. m.,
Wednesday it was showing hard and drift
ing very heavily from four to six feet. At
LIE Mars it was showing and blowing fear
fully. with twenty inches of snow on a
level At Sheldon the snow was three feet