Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-15
Not . u lin Moved on This Di
vision of the Central all
Day Yesterday
ONE TR.Ih ON GREAT WESTERN
Passenger Train Spends All Day Com
ing From Melbourne to This City
Story City BrancI, Opened Today
Northwestern Only Trunk Line in
the State That Has Been Kept Open.

The storm of Tuesday gave the I'm
ishing touch to the railroad blockade,
and as a result, for the first time in
years. not train was operated over
this division of the Iowa Central dur
ing the entire day. The Great West
the early morning north bound pas
senser spent all day coming from Mel
bourne, reaching here about $50 o'clock
last night. 1t was held here most OF
today, and it was thought it would be
able to proceed some time during the
afternoon
This train, No. 6, due in here at 4 O6
o'clock Tuesday morning, altho pulled
by three engines, and later assisted
by two others, was from about o.
clock in the morning until almost o.
clock last night in coming the thirteen
miles from Melbourne. 1t first stalled
a mile and half south of Melbourne,
but was released by farmers and sec
ton men who arrived with ShoVels.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, No.
s. south bound, which passed thru
here during the afternoon, came to the
assistance OF No. 6. The baggage car
was uncoupled from the train, but so
showed in was it that the three en-
gines could not move it. The cab of
the head engine was filled with snow
to a depth of four feet, the windows
We're all broken out, and the snow had
had to be shoveled out before the coal
could be placed in the boiler. Boards
from fences We're used to nail over
the broken windows. The driving wind
was so cold that the trainmen could
not stand to be out of the engines or
cars but a few minutes a a time. The
drifts stood car-top deep. and all the
passengers could see was a wall OF
snow on both sides of the train. The
train was brought into this city by
five big engines.
No. was also later stalled at Mel
bourne but had managed to get to
Baxter by this morning Trains are
east of this city. Employees of the
company said this morning the road
would probably be opened some time
today, as snow plows We're out on the
line this morning.
Acres or SnOW.
The Central was literally buried,
yesterday, under acres of snow. One
drift on the main line, near Gilman, is
1000 feet long, and from six to eight
feet deep. Another big drift fills the
cuts near G. and M. junction, south
of Grinnell, and almost every cut along
the entire division is filled full.
Scarcely an effort was made, while the
wind was blowing Tuesday, to relieve
the situation. altho all of the trains,
which were stuck in the snow, We're
run on sidings and tied up. 1t is doubt
full if there will be any trains today, but
a snow plow was sent out from Os- a.
loosa this morning, and trains will
follow as soon as it clears the way. A
fanger is being prepared, from a rapid
unloader, an apparatus used in the
summer time to unload gravel cars,
and will be put into service as soon
as the snow plows have got thru. A
pillow was sent up the Story City
branch this morning, and reached it's
destination without accident. A train
will doubtless go up the branch today
Northwestern Alone Running.
Altho it's trains are behind time, the
Northwestern is about the only trunk
line in the state which has been able
to keep it's line open. The Milwaukee,
Rock Island and c., B. & @. are more
or less snow bound. The Des Moines,
Iowa Falls & Northern, and the New
ton & Northwestern are fairly buried
in snow, the former not having oper-
ated a train for several days.
The Northwestern late Tuesday af-
ternoon sent west one Of its big rotary
snow plows over the entire division
The morning trains were from almost
an hour to two hours or more late.