Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-02-23
JOURNEY IN THE SNOW.
Conductor Dusenburg and Brake
man Sherbert Have a Rough
Experience.

Beaver Dam, Wis, Feb. 21.-[Spe-
cial. l-Conductor Dusenbury and Brak
man Charles Sherbert of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger train
which left here early this morning,
walked into town in an exhausted condi-
ton and announced that their train was
wrecked about six miles west Of here.
The snowplow and the two engines had
been derailed.
The accident was due to the snow
which packed under the plOw and threw
it crosswise of the track. Dusenbury and
Sherbert Immediately started for this
town, coming a great part of the way on
the ice of, the lake against a sixty-mile
wind and through deep drifts. Dusen-
bury fell through the ice in a spring-hole
where some men had been fishing, and
was wet to the neck. He struggled on,
however, with Sherbert's aid, and the
two men reached here in about four
hours and reported at the station. A
Wrecklng train was sent back to the
stalled train. The plucky conductor went
back with the wrecking crew, carrying
provisions to the passengers. No one was
injured on the train.
Fox Lake, Wis, Feb. I'll Especial. j
The morning passenger train, No. 400,
due here at 7:3O o'clock, arrived forty
minutes late. II was the first train out
since the blizzard started. 1t was
double-header with Alb Race and Charles
Wilson on the head engine and G.. Werbe-
low and Thomas Hughes on the second.
A mile below the old junction a huge
drift INSTRUCTED the track for ten rods
Engineer Race opened his throttle to
send the train through, and the train
went into it about halfway when it be-
came apparent that something was
wrong. The snow pillow on the front had
worked loose or got broken, and struck
a tie, which it cut off smooth. The first
engine was thrown off the track. The
second engine pushed into it and turned
it completely over and across the track.
bottom side up. The tender fell on one
side of the track, the engine on the other.
Both are complete wrecks. The second
engine got off, but is comparatively I'M
injured. Engineer Race mraculously es-
capped. After the engine turned over he
pulled Wilson from under the engine,
and beyond a few bruises, they escaped
unhurt.
Appleton is today digging itself out of
snowdrifts piled up by the blizzard. The
sidewalks and streets are under three to
six feet of hard snow, alternated with
bare spots. All trains are several hours
late. Street car traffic was totally
sumed at noon today. Few people ven
tured out yesterday and the churches
were nearly deserted. a strong wind is
still blowing, but the snow is packed so
hard it does not shift. All the country
roads are practically impassabl BILE.
Black River Falls. Wis, Feb. 21.-,
Special. THE storm that swept over
this section OF the state Saturday and
Sunday was the worst in years. A block
ade of traffic is reported from every direc
ton. Mail trains are from five to seven
hours late
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Feb. 21-[Spc-
cial. IA snOwStOrm of unusual severity
visited this region or Saturday night
and continued all dag yesterday, accom-
panied by high wind. Snow drifts eight
and ten feet high are piled up on the
main streets of the city and the roads are
blOckaded on all the stage lines running
out of here to the northern part of The
peninsula. The train. however. came in
on time. the track being so located that it
suffered very little by drifts.
a report was current yesterday at the
piers and fog sa ton that the channel had
been carried away by drift-ice. but an in
vestigation proved that only about twenty
piles had succumbed to the ice pressure
and these had been literally 'chawed off. >"
A high wind still prevails and the snow
is being drifted continually. 1t is the
worst storm experienced in years.
La Crosse, Wis, Feb. 21.-[ Special. j
La Crosse and vicinity are just getting
over the effects of the worst blizzard of
the year. Official records at the weather
bureau show that 1913 inches of snow fell.
The street railway is kept open with diff
fculty and train service on the railroads is
badly delayed. Trains average six hours
behind time