The Saint Paul globe., 1896-12-01
SETTLERS SUFFERED.
Storm Was Severe ON the DakotO
Prairies.

|
FARGO, N D., Nov. 3O-Fuller reports Of
| the late storm show it to have been far more
serious than was at first anticipated. With
two rotary Crgines working out Of Fargo on
! the Northern Pacific since Saturday morning
| No.. showed in FIVE miles east Of Valley
City, was just reached at 10 O'Clock this
morning. Only half mile was cleared Yes
terday. Drifts in the cuts are from six to
fourteen feet deep, and frozen like ice mixed
with sand. Dynamite is used to loosen it Up.
| The Southw estern branch to Lisbon and
Edgeley is still frozen up, and people in towns
| along the line are out of wood and coal, and
| there seems prospects of opening up HE
road for three or four days. Small tcwns
along the main line are also out Of fuel. In
the wreck Of a snow plow this morning John
Tallman, fireman, had leg broken, head
badly scalded and received serious internal
! injuries.
PEMBINA, N. D., Nov. 30.-District court
meets tomorrow. Before the late terrible
| blow, snow had fallen to the depth of four
feet on a level, the heaviest fall ever kno n
at this time of year Now that the wind has
| taken it, there are drifts clear over many
houses in this section.
JAMESTOWN, N. D., Nov. 9o.-Jamestown
| is snoW-bound, with no prospect that railway
communication will be opened eastward for
| some time yet. No mails have been received
since Thursday. The mail trains stalled al
Mandan are expected here this evening The
| road is reported open to He' sna. East OF
| jamestown cut q mile AMI half long is
drifted in thirty feet deep with frozen snow.
All cuts are level full. Fh9:e is plenty of
! fuel and provisions in the city to last for
some time, and there is no want nor suf-
| fering.
| STEPHEN, Mimi, Nov 9O-Passenger
| trains have been stuck in snow drifts. En-
gineers and firemen have had to shovel snow
| all night in the worst blizzard we have had
| for years, in order to keep the engines alive.
| Although but short distance from the water
| tank, they were unable to reach 1t.
| Engineer Winney's machine was sight
! worth seeing. 1t was almost solid mass of
| ice and snow. The whole front, including
| the pilot, boilerhead, headlight and smoke
| stack, was practically a snow bank, and ice
| had formed upon the wheels, rods and, in
| fact, every conceivable portion cf the bulky
machine. When 1t ran down the track for
water and fuel, with the only 1000 feet
away. the storm filled the track behind them,
and the engineer and fireman were compelled
to stay. No one dared trust himself in the
weather, and during the entire night the
two worked to keep the engine alive, and
shoveled snow in the hope of getting back to
the train. During the entire night they
worked steadily, and at the end of fourteen
hours they succeeded in getting back over
that 1000 feet. They were hungry, tired and
frost-bitten. Mr.. Winney's face is still swol-
len from freezing, and Fireman Cowan's fin
gers and nose were also nipped
The run to Crookston was made through
drifts which had to be bucked every few
rods, and the snow filled the cab SO as to
require constant shoveling. Fosstonites will
be without mail for five days.
ABERDEEN, s. D., Nov. .30.-TIntense cold
weather has succeeded the blizzard. 1t was
26 degrees below last night.
PIERRE, s. D., Nov. 30-Cattle men say
the loss the Sioux range. will be light II
there is any. The cattle are all right and have
drifted into gulches and draws. They are in
good shape to stand the storm, and what dam
age has resulted is in the way Of covering up
feed and making it hard for the stock the
rest of the winter.
GAINESVILLE, Minn., Nov. 30.-Trafic
west Of here has been completely stopped
for two days. An engine and snow
plow left here Sunday to open the line to
Grand Forks. A large number of freight
and passenger trains stalled here and in
consequence the hotels are reaping quite a
harvest. About one-third of the regular
trains are running to st. Paul from here
| No train from the West has reached here
| since Wednesday,
| BISMARCK, N. D., Nov. 30-The North
! ern Pacific is still blocaded. It's coast train
! which should have reached Minneapolis on
! Thursday is stuck in a snow drift at New
| Salem, forty miles west of here and cannot
move until a rotary snow plow clears the
| track In some deep cuts snow is drifted on
| the track to depth of fifty feet A Goa
! famine prevails here and there will be suf-
fering unless relief is afforded at once Nc
services were held in the different churches
/ yesterday, and the fuel on hand was distrub.
uted among the poor.