The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-28

lingtOn at Wabasha.
Violent storms extending over a belt
east and west, about fifty miles wide. in
Southwestern Wisconsin, Friday night,
had the effect of delaying passenger
trains on all roads traversing this sec
ton, and making yesterdays trains from
chicago from three to eight hours late
The storm struck Chippewa Falls about 8
o'clock IN the evening and ragged fferceIy
until after midnight. A violent rainfall.
approaching in violence a cloudburst. I'M
dermined road beds and caused numerous
washouts along the line of the Milwau-
kee, Omaha and Wisconsin Central roads.
The Pioneer Limited, the Milwaukee
fast passenger train from Chicago, was
almost ditched at Kings Coulee, Wis,
shortly before midnight. A small creek.
crossing the line of the road in a stone
culvert, near a deep cut became flooded
Ivy the heavy rainfall, and the water I'M
dermtned the roadbed, causing q land
slide. The engine jumped the track, fol-
lowed by the first baggage car in the
rear: The violence of the shock broke the
couplings between the engine and tender
and, as the heavy locomotive plunged
into the embankment beside the track
Engineer Jones was thrown from his seat
as he endeavored to reverse his engine
and was caught between the cab and the
end Of the tender. His left leg was &C.
rlously crushed. A coal HEAVIER, who was
riding on the engine at the time, whose
name 1s not known, was caught under
meath the tender and killed. The fireman
OF the wrecked engine escaped without
of fhn
hurt, though they received a severe shak-
ing up.
The Northwestern limited, the Omaha
Ch1cago-St. Paul train, to- avoid washouts
near Menominee Junction, left the main
line at Camp Douglass, where it crosses
the Milwaukee, following the Milwaukee
fast mail, three-quarters of an hour be-
hind. Owing to the fact that the latter
jumped the track at Kings Coulee the
Omaha transferred again at Wabasha
coming into st. Paul at noon, over the
Burltngton's tracks. The Pioneer limited
left an engine and tender and a baggage
car in the cut near Kings Coulee, and
arrived in ST. Paul three hours late. On
the road the fast Chicago mail and the
limited were combined. coming into the
city as a double-header.e The Omaha s
Chicago express, due at 7:50, arrived at
Ills
From st. Paul to Elroy the rainfall was
heavy, and many small washouts, were
reported. Reports from the city general
and local offices yesterday afternoon tndi-
GATED that repairs were under way and
that by midnight trains on all lines would
be running on schedule time again The
Milwaukees tracks near Kings Coulee
were cleared last night, and the Chicago
trains are expected in this morning on
time.
The Omaha washout near Menominee
Junction was repaired at once. and after
all traffic had been delayed for fourteen
hours, trains were able to pass. The
Wisconsin Central Jared worse than the
other roads in point of damage to track
age. Sixty feet of embankment and one
span Of the steel bridge over Trout river
were washed out. and the night passenger
train. due Friday night in Chippewa Falls
at II o'clock, was stalled between Howard
and Irvine. The Omaha's No. 8, due in
st. Paul at 1880, ran via spooner yester-
day and got into the union station at
4:30 p. M.
success Is generally deserved, and the
Gordon hat Is no exception to the rule.