The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-16

r,.ssistant General Manager
of the Northern Pacific.
- ENERGETIC RAILROAD MAN.
rown. OF Baekiey and Hoeods
xu.a After Rtm-sesftis
people wh. Remember Him

r-.s,v~ ARK. reports the death there lasE
.,,FT n Btckley. formerly assistant
- esansxe, OF ths Northern Pacific
- and ore OF the best known men
80 Pacific Northwest. The remains
n - brought here for burial.
g.. f,st news in this city OF the death OF
~ guckiey, the welI-knovn capitalist
! s,o3sne and ex-assistant-general man
- If tie Northern Pacific rail-
- xas Telegram TO Maj. }.
HARDEN, inspector general OF
s.,stl.h Rte Masonry for Washington.
ss,bo and Alaska. from +. u. Olmss.d. a
~s,-.~.tbiyd degree Mason and head Of
-. orxter II Spokane. Ths telegram simply
...t.d tha. Nr. Buckley bad died al the
I,sansas Hot Springs. Maj Hayden i'm
,.e4iately replied by letter, instructing
u Osmsled to bestow all possible Ma
.,esc hoaors on the deceased. Mr.. Buck
~ sss also a very prominent Mason. and
....siiea the lodge Of Perfection, No. 9. in
r.eoua May 5, iss4 He was born at
ys.oa. Preble county. o.. March 2. 1888.
/ "a leaves a wife. two daughters and
.nn All OF whom are now living at Spokane.
usissves an estate worth $50 90.
Mr.. Buckley began his railroad career as
ssscsion hand. He was well known in this
aar. Of the country. where he ives
s.rls Identified with the develop
meat Of the country and was
s<neysl manager OF the Northern
Pacific railroad when that line was ex-
! pnded 10 the Sound. being Henry Vii
l.sd's right-hand man in all matters per-
ssnipg 10 the road. He was last in Seat
tIs six weeks ago. at which time he was
sspoased administrator of the shannon
es:als. Mai Hayden and Jacob Eurth go
lnx on his bond. at that time he was
complaining of being unweii, suffering
rom rheumatism, and was compelled to
tssarn home really before he intended.
lie is remembered rs one OF the most en-
rsstic railroad men in the country and
ssald permit nothing to stand in his way.
A railroad man yesterday recalled the
rrset blockade OF snow and ice which ei-
actually tied up the whole Oregon Rail-
gay 4 Navigation system from Umatiila
ts Portland In Oregon in the early SOS.
The scene at The Dalles at that time beg
rs,ed description. Snow and ice was piled
thirty feet high in the streets, and the
river being frozen over, navigation was
Impossible. The winter was very severe.
tst IL was during boom and many East
srn people were coming West to live.
thus il was that several passenger trains
Of immigrants were sidetracked at The
Dslles ax aising chance to get TO Port
lsad, eishty-eight miles distant. The
beal road did all IL could to raise the
tloekade but was unsuccessful, and after
several weeks OF imprisonment. IL became
known that General Manager Buckley. of
The Northern Pacific. had agreed to raise
! he blockade and was even then on his
say 10 The Dailes from the East with
barge number of mountain engines and
fassvy snow rlow.
Buekley's name was n magic one In
hose days and the people had no doubt
bat that he would accomplish the task
Tie day be arrived at The Dalles was
essoted to celebration by the imprisoned
inmigrants. who were now living on
boiled wheat and meat. Several hundred
ssetlon men accompanied Mr.. Buckley,
section train and several ponderous loco
notives. He Immediately telegraphed to
Portland 10 prepare supper for bis men
We following night, expressing the con-
vietion that he would raise the blockade
within fifteen hours. When the engines
sad the snowplow left the town towards
Portland the people turned out and gave
three cheers for Buckley and his men. But
the effort was unavailing that day. snow
ice being in many places fifty or sixty
sssl deep on the tracks forming solid
wall, and in other places the tracks were
hrn up and slid out of place. Occasion
slly the ice on the rails would become so
high that the locomotives would run OF
iAs track, and then more vexatious delays
would be oceasioned. Added TO this the
Thermometer ranged about eighteen or
sssnty degrees below zero and MANI of
TIE men suffered SO from the cold that
sAey could not work. while frozen hands
sad feet were very common.
Mr.. Buckley returned to The Dalles on
BE second day and arranged tor more
snsihss. There were several in the shops
q The Dalies and these he secured and
szsin the train started. this time made mp
ca rotary snowpiow. thirteen engines.
ise cehooses with provisions, medicine
sad tools. Several days later abe train ar
nssd IN fortlsnd. having made its way
snsoagh the mountains of snow and ice.
fatit was but few hours before the line
sas In JUST as bad a condition as ever and
hsas still 4 week before the passengers at
ne nalles we're gotten through. In rails
hs the blockade several men were
tlasd and on one occasion the train,
backing snow bank, backed
81 several hundred yards and
cane down at full speed, the rotary catch
hswfen or eight Cinnamon employed IS
sSiioa uen. who had not been warned OF
We attack. and their remains moment
1 a'sF we're scattered over the hillside for
Instance OF a mile and half. Among the
vssp's Ia this city who we'll remember the
sasAade Is Frank A. Twicheli. county
sasssoF. who At that time was on his way
Hen Tie East 20 make n home for him
s9oa Puget sound, aud VAS among the
tasssageFs imprisoned st The Dalles.
samuel J.. Crawford remembers Mr..
sssksy vel, and tells the following story
sa0S be ehrsstsned the town Of Bacoda:
Along lais in the eos Mr.. Buckley. in
aaet lon Wifh Sam Coulter. of Port
-. ana Mr. Davis al Eastern mining
- acquired : tract of land In Thurston
s.-st near Ieniuo. on which some coal
Nsseeis had been found. and later. when
sss determined that the territorial
'sentaarY should tie located there. in
- saat the prisoners might be worked
eeAi mines, Il Was deemed necessary
80 TIE place a name. After casting
-. leF some ume, and falling 10 settle
- - lndlan name that Was saElStac-
| al concerned Mr.. Buckley hlt
/ - ahAppy pan by coming an Indian
49, siatag 80 tAe indian word Ia
sasea has been previously coined
SEES lat similar manner. His idea
- seE'a NOrd by taking the first tao
/. .asa the names Of the three owners.
e..sss; bu from Buckley. Go from
- Aad Ia from Davis. His saEses-
60, deemed happy one. and thss
As.s.s otiss mining and milling tosa
"a IVA sAat day 70 tau. uro,psrea under