Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-12-03

IAMES7
The delayed Pacific mail followed 1t
closely and is expected here some time
this evening" This train Is consolidated
with the one to arrive here this morning
and is the only one that will reach here
today from the east. At Msndan an.
other plow was started east, but that
had much more trouble and at noon had
only passed Bismarck. 1t is working
heavily and was not expected to meet
the plow here until late today.
1t is expected that trans will not ar
rive here until tonight. The cut at
Bloom is reported even full and tho
rotary from Fargo will have hard work
to get through. The old-fashloned
pilot plow started from Mendan east
ward, passed Dawson, so miles west OF
here, at 3o'clock.
The storm interfered with the usual
attendance at the Gladstone Thsnke-
giving dinner. Messrs. Klaus 4 Rattin-
ger prepared big spread, and reserved
seats for visitors who could not reach
the hotel. The menu, from blae points
to coffee, was one Of the best efforts of
Chef Bertel, and Z credit to the hotel.
Yesterday number Of card tables we're
brought ont and the guests d the house
spent most OF the day and evening at
whist, etc.
Thursday night one Of the windows ir
Rankin & Armstrong; Office IN the opera
house block was blown in sad the follow
ing moruing when discovered every ything
was covered with snow.
In front of Mason's candy store
pant leg and boot are seen sticking pro-
trud.ng from the top of a ten-foot snow
drift. A placard says: ''say Mistr, Is
my hat on straight"
Traffic on the railroad closed early
Thanksgiving day. The Atlantic mail
passed here the evening before and Nc.
l arrived from the east about on time,
2:30 q. n. The Dakota Express or
rived about noon, the last train to reach
heve until today The storm increased
in violence and when Ia he afternoon en-
attempt was made to run tho train east
objects could hardly be distinguished
fifty feet away. The two engines that
we're t.. pull the train of forr cars came
up through the yards and passed the
station with rush thro wipg the snow
from the pilot plow dn clouds. One of
the windows in the ticket office was
crushed in by the snow from the plow.
It was all the engines could do to start
the train with It's few passengers, one OF
them a women, and cid, hardened train
men shivsred at the thought OF taking
out train on such q night. However,
the tran succeeded in reaching Valley
City only so minusts late but got no
further. 1t stuck In the snow 9 few
miles east and, after staylng in the train
all night, the passengers the next morn
ing walked over fifteen feet snow drifts
back to Valley City where they remained
until today.
A train succeeded in getting as tar as
Lisbon on the Fargo & South western
branch Thursday morning and then tied
up to await the arrival Of 8, snow ploV 10
dig them out
Express freight No. 81, with Porter
and Kellum commanding, got as far as
Cleveland siding on the main line west,
early Thursday morning and then be-
came showed ill.,. A big pilot plow
pushed by two engines wss sent to their
assistance, bat that also became stuck
in the drifts and was not rescued until
today. Fortunately farm house and
the section house were but q short dis
tance away and the crews we're able to
get food. Some of the men walked
back to Windsor, to the telegraph sta
ton, and reported the situation. Engi-
neers Carnagan and Glass end Con-
ductor Knowles were on the plow. Also
Roadmaster Fletcher.
The AtlaEtic mails, due here at 6
o'clock Thursday and Friday mornings
respectively did not reach this division.
The first was stalled in the snow at
Sims, 35 miles west Of Mandan, and the
second did not seave Dickinson.
No attempt was made to run the trains
on either the Northern or Valley
branches, the regular trains being aban-
doned for two days.
No cases Of want we're discovered in
the city though number of families are
reported to have had close call in the !
matter OF fuel. But neighbors interven-
ed and sack or basket of Goa, was car
ried to the needy, and the storm tlded
over safely. Quite number of the rail
way men. heads OF families, were out of
the city, but their friends made frequent
trips to such homes to see that nothing
was lacking, aud all came through nice
ly. The coal and wood yards are we'll
supplied with fuel and can stand seige