Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1893-02-02
being on heavy up grade made the pas
sage of trains very difficult

being on heavy up grade made the pas
sage OF trans very difficult.
Train No. 7 was about thirty miles
east Of the city when the storm struck
it, and did not reach this city until
l2:4O p. M, just exactly two hours
behind time, it having taken it between
three and four hours to come that dis
tance. At one o'clock in the afternoon
the jamestown and Northern train which
leaves here at o'clock, had not yet
reached Melville. IS miles north of this
city.
There was no school held at either of
the city schools. Anxious parents, who
had allowed their children to 60, called
for them and took them home early in
the forenoon.
Manager Durkee of the Western Union
Telegraph company reported the tele-
crap wires as ''crossed' but the tele-
phone wires in The city were working
all right.
The severe storm OF Tuesday, az
proachiDg the vigor of the typical biz
zard, but not lasting as long as such
storms generally do subsided during the
night. 1t has been followed by cold
wave, the spirit thermometer marking
81 degrees below zero at daylight this
morning. At noon, with a bright sun
shining, the mercury registered % below.
| No damage from the wind or cold has
yet been reported from the surrounding
country, as settlers we're given warning
OF the approaching blizzard, by the sig
nal service. Business in the city has
resumed It's normal condition today.
At 9 o'clock Tuesday night, Conductor
Nelson was ordered out of Mandan, to run
ahead OF the passenger train, No. 4. to
this city, with the SNOWY plow. The train
consisted Of the snow plow.-one of the
old style "wedge plows'' not the rotary"
aow IN use so much,-the pusher and
caboose. There was but comparatively
small amounts of snow on the track, or
the pillow could not have come through
in less than five hours time, AS it did.
For some distance this side OF Bismarck
no snow at all was encountered, but
further this wav the drifts, small and
numerous, we're found and the plow sent
through with whirl, for if such plow
once gets stuck it is stuck for good The
rotary plows attack drift at low
rate OF speed. The fireman on the pusher
OF the snow plow said that the snow, as
fine as flour duet, drIfted into the cab
from every crack and Granny imaginable
and melting. filed the CAB so with steam
that when the fire door was opened to-
throw in a shovel:ull of coal, nothing
could be seen except round yellow spot
OF the fire in the fire-box. Everything
was wet and his coat was SO iced that it
ratified as though he was incased in
coat Of mail. The passenger t-ain fol-
lowed about two hours.
Train No. came in five hours late.
with three engines coupled on ahead. and
left with two. Train No. 8 left here at
tte usual hour Tu sday T ernoon, hut
did not get further than Sanborn, where
it was stuck in the snow and tied up for
the night. Train No. joined 1t at
about O'Clock this morning where No.
l, the Pacific mail, was also in waiting
for the blockade to be raised by
''wedge' plow and gang of men sent
from Fargo for that purpose. The snow
plow sent. ahead of No. from Man6an
to this city did not proceed any further
east. The Missouri division engine crew
who came down on the snow plow, con-
sisting of Engineer Barrett and Fireman
Burgster, deadheaded back on No. l.
The passenger train on the Fargo and
Southwestern. which leaves Fargo at
7:3O in the morning, got about 66 miles
out from that city when it was tied up in
a snow bank between Elliot and Engle-
vale, two small stations. During to-
day the train was released by help
from the Fargo division terminal.