The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-01

Small Towns in the North Cut
Off From Supplies and Dis
tress Will Ensue.
There Is Much Apprehension in Re-
gard to the Cattle Iniustry in
Montana.

FARGO, n. OAK, Nov. 30.-Fuller re-
ports of the late storm show it to have
been far. more serious than was at first
supposed. The drifts in cuts are six to
fourteen feet deep and are frozen like ice
mixed with sand. Dynamite is being
used to loosen up the snow. The south
western branch of the Northern Pacific to
Lisbon and Edgley is still frozen up and
people in the towns along the line are out
OF wood and coal and there seems no
prospect of opening the roads for three or
four days. Small towns along the main
line of the Northern Pacific are out OF
fuel In wreck OF a snowplow this
M orning, John Tallman, fireman, had q
leg broken, his head scalded and received
serious internal Injuries
BISMARCK, N. OAK. NOV. 30.-The
Northern Pacific is still blockaded. Its
train which should have reached Mime
apolis on Thursday is stuck in a snow
DRIFT forty miles west of here and cannot
move until snow pillow clears the track.
In some deep cuts the snow is dritted on
the track to depth of fifty feet. A coal
famine prevails here and there will be
much suffering unless relief is afforded at
once.
HELENA, Mont, Nov. 3d. There is
much apprehension in regard to the cattle
industry this winter The severity of the
weat her for the past four lays and the
fact that there is considerable snow on
the ranges are ominous for future lossers.
STEPHEN, MINI, Nov. 30-Passenger
trains have been stuck in snowdrifts in
the late storm. Engineers and fremen
have had to shovel snow all night in the
worst blizzard experienced here Tor years
in order to keep the engines alive. Al
though but a short distance from the
water-tank they were unable 10 reach 1t.
Engineer Winney's engine ran down to
the tank for water and fuel with the cars
only 1000 feet away. The storm filled the
track behind them and engineer and fire.
man were compelled to stay at the tank.
No one dares trust himself in the weather
and during the entire night the two men
shoveled snow into the tender in the hope
of getting back. In ten hours they sue
ceeded in getting back. They suffered
greatly from the cold.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Nov. 3d.
The Chippewa River is backing up on to
the streets in the lower section of the
city. Its rise is due to a large,ice gorge
formed eight miles below, hear Eau
Claire. Ali easements on River and
Spring streets are filled with water, and
residents and occupants of business
places on River street are moving out.
The ice gorge is four miles long and
twenty feet high. Five hundred men are
at work wi tn dynamite endeavoring to
break 1t. The intense cold retards the
work and new ice is forming rapidly. I'm
less the gorge is broken inside of twenty
four hours great disaster is feared.
MOOREHEAD, MINI, Nov. 30.-The
body OF Thomas Anderson, vino persisted
in Thursdays storm, was found this morn
ing half mile northeast of the home OF
Miss Daniels, whom he escorted home
from work Thanksgiving night. His coat
was missing. Anderson was 16 years old.
1t was on his return home he lost his life.
GAINESVILLE. MINI, Nov. 3O-Traf-
fic west of here has been completely
stopped for two days. An engine and
snowplow left here Sunday to open, the
line to Grand FORKS. A large number of
freight and passenger trains are stalled
here, and in consequence the hotels are
reaping quite harvest.