The sun., 1897-01-31
HARD BATTLES WITH SNOW.
RAILROADS IN the HORTUWEsT
BLOCKED ny GREAT DRIB1s.
Powerful Locomotives aus PiouGhs Dis
sbied While Backing Against the Frozen
S.ow-Drifts ns High as Mouses-Cost OF
the Storms-ReaI BiIzEards Thts Winter.

Ssow-Drifts ns High az uouses-Cost OF
the storms Real BiIzEards This wiuter.
MiSYEAPoLIs. Jan. 2S.-Four different times
In the last fifty days the railroads In the central
Northwest covering an area OF about 1000
square miles. have been SO blocked with snow as
TO stop all trafIlc. Many important lines have
not turned Q wheel for from ton days to two
weeks al time. and many an important town
has been entirely without malls and supplies
for so long that there have been scores Of fuel
famines aud great suffering.
1t is very hard to get at the cost Of these
storms to the railroads. but 1t IL estimated that
the two leading limos running wost through
Minnesota and North Dakota. the Northern
Pacific and the Great Northern, aud the leading
road in the northern part OF south Dakota, the
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul, have spent
not less than s500.000 In clearing snow from
their tracks and in putting up additional fences
and guards. Besides their shops have become
filled with equipments damaged or ruined In
tusslcs with the hard snow-ice on miles OF
tracks. In addition. otner roads whose mileage
is not so great or whose lines are In parts of the
Northwest less exposed. are said TO have
spent half as much more In the same work. In
all II Is believed that 81 900. 900 10 not too high
al estimate OF the direct loss outside OF lossened
travel. to the roads In this section since Nov. 20.
All over tho three States the cuts have been
filled with snow. and the ploughs have banked
1t 20 high on either side that for miles the
traveller can ride between banks Of snow like
the sides OF q tunnel. from twenty to thirty
feet high. These deep cuts are so exposed that
every windy snow storm from now Till spring
,,u nm th.m N, AGAIN aud th, nlouvhs and
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sh"'tis Will nave 10 DO eAheu 'n'o use t'"e
after time. The most frequent snow storms Of
IN. northwestern country ara late in the win.
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change this season the roads are liable to be
conttuunlIv in tYoubl, from mi. time on
anJ =" JouhI. ,Ss ,xpen,s n which ,h.v
anu to uouolo the oApehse W "h'cu ."os
have been put so far. North from the southern
mari of souih Dakota the snow IA from ,hre. to
h'e feet deep on level. ana the drifts In valleys
and cOulees are as deep as the valleys them
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caves OF t"o-storS houses. Drltts 30 MI tno
streets that sturekeepers have been Obliged TO
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