Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-30
The Blizzard Ceases, But Leaves
Evidences of Itself In Var
ious Places.
Linenen at Work On Telegraph
Wires, and Trains Pretty
Badly Delayed.
Various and Varied Items of Local
New Picked Up In and About
the City.
The Storm Aftermath,


last night, and it created it's full share
of disturbance in passing. The blizzard,
which ragged all day Thursday, ceased,
some time last night, but not until it
had wrought a wonderful change in the
appearance of the outside world. The
sun rose this morning, clear and cold,
and it shone over an earth of dazzling
wilderness. And the populace rose with
the sun, the same dazzling whiteness
met their gazes as they looked forth to
see what signs of promise there were for
the day, and the principal occupation of
freeholders this morning was the dig
ging themselves out from the snow drifts
which we're to be found everywhere
and such snow drifts.
A glance down Maiu street this morn
ing reveals more snow than anything
else. On the north side of the street,
there is a continuous drift, ranging from
four to six and eight feet in depth. and
in some places it is even deeper.
At the corner of Main and Fifth streets
there IS a drift ten feet high, and long
and broad enough to resemble Mont
Blanc or the M%atterhorn, where yester-
day morning, not the f~aintest suspicion
Of snow was to be seen. There is not a
business place on the street, but the
front of it is adorned by five or six
feet of snow, in some places drifted from
the front door out into the middle of the
street.
Routes from residences about the city
down into town are necessarily circuit
Gus. Cross lots are chosen, wire fences
are taken, and other roundabout ways
are taken to avoid the deeper drifts. A
walk from n end of Main street to the
other necessitates a continuous crossing
and re-crossing of the street, with num-
erous circuitous ~meanderings, incident
ally. Man stops in some places and
gazes far up into the air, where glistens
the towering peak of some bank of snow
which glitters and sparkles at a height
of too many feet to mention. Then he
very senslbly walks around a mile or two
provided he wishes to get past IT.
In railroad circles and for the tele-
graph company the storm was without
doubt the worst ever experienced. The
Western Union company's wires are
down in dozens of different places. East
of jamestown and as far as Tower City,
the wires are snapped off like pipestems,
II poles and cross arms are down in
many places. All of the linemen of the
company are at work, and the company
hopes to have a railroad wire and q local
telegraph wire through to Fargo to-day.
West of the river, the effect on the tele-
graph wires does not seem to have been
SO bad, and all telegraphing has to be
done around that way.
The railroad company, likewise, is hav-
ing it's share of trouble with the running
OF trains. There was no attempt at max
ing time yesterday. Freight trains we're
wedged fast in nov drifts ali along the
line. Two of them passed the greater
part of the day in the city, unable to get
out. Another was stuck in a drift near
the bridge. Passenger trains with
double headers endeavored to make;way
over the track, but were powerless to
pass through the drifts of solid snow.
which filled up cuts and we're encounter
ed in all the yards at stations. No. 2
from the west, remained at Dickinson
yesterday morning until noon, and then
moved on with two engines, succeeded
in getting as far as Gladstone, ten miles
east and then ran into a snow bank where
1t remained all yesterday afternoon and
last night, being released this morning.
A rotary snow blow propelled by two
engines passed through from the west
last night, to clear the track for to.day's
trans. Another passed through this
morning from the east. Train No. /.
from the east, consequently, was but
about two hours late, the track having
been cleared to enable it to make the
road with little delay.
The reports from along the line show
the storm to have been general through
out the state. At Dickinson, it RACED
with about the same violence as at Bis
marck, and the long stretch of level
prairie between Dickinson and Mandan
is one unbroken succession of snow
drifts. Mandan also suffered at the
hands OF the storm, and from Bismarck
to jamestown the results of the storm
are everywhere visible in dismantled
telegraph poles, blockaded wagon roads,
and immense snow drifts. At James
town, the snow is reported to ha We been
worse, it anything, than at Bismarck.
and the several cities between there and
Fargo experienced a full share of the
general unpleasantness.
Ice Running Out.
The river ice has been running out for
several days and the Missouri is now al