The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-01-14
READING NEWS.
By AAkY DE ZEAN.


It is now two days since any trans
have left this station for the east and at 3
p N. the7th the local freight LEFT here for
three miles west, and for two days and
nights three engines have tried to pull
the train back here. only bringing from
one to four cars at time. The ther-
mometer has been from zero TO 16o be-
low, and to day at IL O'Clock it stood
re below, ct which time the snow
bound engine was pulled out OF the
drift.
Friday night the construction tram ar.
rived from Atchison with fifty men to
shovel snow.
The snow In the cut is ten feet or
nore. The locomotive was about out OF
sight 10 the snow drift. Thursday the
wIRdIblew hard and it was showing all
the afternoon and also night. Friday
was q windy day, too.
After the construction train arrived IL
wss expected the track would soon be
clear and so in came the mail tram of ten
cars Gt 8 p N. Friday and 1t still stands
here at p. d. Saturday, but is expect
ing to start west soon.
| One cause of delay 10 clearing the
track is the draw bars were not of SUM-
cient strength to hold and one after an
other gave way and hindered the work.
It is evident that there were no rail
road men of experience in snow storms
with authority to plan. Perhaps the
man was here that knew, but the
Santa Fe did not clolhe him
with the power TO execute.
There Is some growing heard around
, the depot by both passengers and train
men at 50 long a delay.
It has been 60 cold and the train men
have endured long and hard in this se-
we're storm that they deserve our charity
!! and sympathy.
Q 1t is said st. John is aboard the pas
q seDGer train. 1t so, 1t is his first stop
here, hut he made no speech. He has
q been cut IN the cold now for over q
{ year. Why not come home and work
D like a man?
0 MONDAY, Jan. IL. 1886.
o. AeOoAAh6 1O-Noy 10 OASO A4AOA o Oo50h4AnA
Q Its old time splendor in the busy hum
0 of trade and shipping stock.
The farmers as a general thing ship
Q their own stock.
MIR. Near of Arvonia Is to-day ship
9 ping the car of hogs he brought to the
{ stock yards last Thursday.
James Jessie of Arvonia was IN town
O-day to arrADgs to ship his 100 Colo
rsdo steers that he kept over from last
GUNNER on account of low prices.
Hr. Jessie had thirty hogs freeze to
o death last week.
Fred Warner lost u good horse last
9 Friday night. He found Il In the morn.
Q ing standing under the shed, but cold
9 and dead. he thinks the horse wal
3 we'll, but chilled TO death by the cold
weather.
Kansas needs better barns and more
o of them.
q Last Friday the thermometer stood Il
degrees below zero at .. N. At noon
: 1t stood ten below.
y Saturday at z q. m. il was i6 degrees
Q below; At noon, degrees below.
o. Sunday 1T Z q. M, 10 degrees below
), at noon, 2 degrees below.
o Monday at 2 g. m. 10 degrees below
n at noon, 10 degrees above,
8 1t showed here again this afternoon
o so our our station agent notified the
y head of the Santa Fe railroad company
. and they wired him to prepare at oncs
o for one of the biggest snow storms o.
y the season. Let 1t come; only look on
. for coal ana plenty of -four
but tonight the stars are shining. Still
another Wyoming blizzard may be Oh
the way TO us.
Miss Alice Strsttnn has returned q
her studies ct the Baker University
after spending the holidays at home.
Henry Jacoby. Jr.. and wife were q
9 church Sunday, blooming and happy
e They goto Housekeeping on south BrosC
street.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12.
Mercury at zero this mernine. To
3 day one can zee team after team RoinI
70 Arvenis coai.bsDks. Ten to htteei
cars of stock TO be shipped tonight.