Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1907-01-24
STORM ] "A
Saturdays Wind and Cold Tied up
Railroad Operations on En-
tire Division.
Big Drifts Formed in Many new
Places. Snow Hard and
Easily Drlttsd.
Commendable Efforts Of Railroad
Company to Equal the Unlocked 4.
for Emergency.

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The hazy atmosphere of Friday
night, the sudden rise in the temper
ature and the low barometer all pre-
|. .dicted an atmospheric disturbance
Saturday ~ hich was fully justified
&by the facts. A storm of blowing
s.snow accompanied BY a fall in the
mercury to below zero began early
Saturday morning, lasted all day and
all Saturday night. The snow was
blown against buildings in fine hard
grains " hlch stuck to the doors and
windows. 1t formed drifts of hard
snow 10 the streets and or the walks.
The railroad company laid Ill trains
up and not wheel moved on the
division Saturday MIGHT, Sunday
morning the weather cleared Zip and
the cold wind subsiding, the RAILROAD
men began clearing the main line
track again for the tied up passc niger
trains. The storm as general all over
the division and the blow, the worst
of the year. The snow hardened SO,
that it..would bear up men and even
teams, where it woilld .-noJ before.
Train No. 3, due here Saturday at 8
a. m., reached this station Sunday at
:t2:l5 p. N. drawn by. three engines.
The train had difficulty in getting as
far as Sanborn, laid up there during
the night and until the storm abat-
ed, Sunday. The passengers were
comfortable and experienced no great
Inconvenience. except the delay. s:.it
The wind was from the northwest,
blockading cuts on, all branch lines
and making many new drifts on main.
line. An east bound freight was.
stuck west of Medina and was dug
out early Sunday morning. The plow
returning east ran upon the hard
snow near Cleveland ana was. de-.
rallied. This again blockaded the
+ tracks for a time. Work Of track:
men was slow on account the cold of
Saturday. and yesterday, and the diff
6cultv of keeping engines from freez
ING to the track was great. Much
delay was experienced vest OF here by
/ the necessity OF running a Russell
plow working west, through to Man
dan and return. Two Russell plOws
have been working continuously on
the main line since the storm. A
freight train became fast in the snow
near Buffalo gcine do hill and had
sto.be dug out In pieces, this morn
! ing. A rotary plow has been at work
4 on the Sykeston branch, ana another
on the Cooperstown branch, which
latter piece Of track was again block:
AIDED "a hours after being cleared.
From ten to twelve feet Of hard snow
(: is met at places BY the east bound
roatrv on the Sykeston branch. The
company has Russell pillow on the
I F.{and S. W. and the plow on the
/ Cooperstown branch will be sent to
i the Casselton branch soon az the
former line rs opened. Sii5ass.s
All men possible to obtain are en-
ployed on track work as well as; in
! fitting up boarding. outfits for new
men. There are in the neigh ghborhood
OF 500 men In the snow service Of the
com mpany on this division, and fifty
teams are employed clearing snow
from yards along the line. The COM
gpanys has 25 carpenle ers making new
snow fencing for cuts, as some Of the 4
old fences are drifted over and Of lit
Tile further use. Fifteen-car freight
trains we're moving on the main line
To-Day, but II took two engines, TO get
over the ] DAD thus requiring about
four times the motive power usually
required
This taxes the round house facili-f1
StiesSto the atmos Supt. Burt Is
! keeping "a touch with gents at all
stations as. % the snecessit Some
EEof the retail 81 grocery men to the
Ebranch towns are not sTreceiy ring
(fIeight hipmrnt al xpected and are
aoainR sales; rhese and dss others fear;I
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