The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-02-04

from the storm. Not wheel was
turned on the Northern Pacific Fri
day, and the only thing doing Satur-
day and Sunday was the progress of a
snow plow from Little Falls to Morris.
The pillow passed through hereat 11:3O.
Saturday afternoon, few miles be-
yond Glenwood, the plow, when run
ming at rate of fifteen miles an
hour, ran upon piece of track on
which ice several inches thick had
formed. The plow was thrown from
the track some ten feet, and when it
struck it stood at right angles to the
rails. The engine and tender were
derailed. A wrecking outfit was sent
out. from Staples and about ten o'clock
that night the plow was gotten back
upon the track. Operations were
then resumed and all went well until
Sunday morning when an engine fiue
blew out and the steam and water es-
capped, leaving the engine "dead" up
on the rails.
Another engine was sent from
Staples and finally, some time during
Sunday night, tho track was cleared
as far as Morris. At number of
points along the line the drifts were
very bad and required large amount
of work to clear them. The ordinary
old-time plow was used, and it was
hard ''bucking' a good deal of the
time.
Monday morning the passenger
train, that had lain at Morris from
Thursday night, started out, passing
Sauk Centre fifteen minutes late.
The crew had been taking it easy for
three days.
The Great Northern had a bad
time of it but at no time was busi-
ness wholly suspended. No. 8, the east
bound Winnepeg passenger, due here
at 4:OS a. M, Friday, passed through
here at 10 o'clock, six hours late. It
was followed an hour later by No. 6,
which was due here at $40. No. 2,
the eastbound Oriental Limited, was
ten and half hours late. No. /,
westbound, got stuck in drifts at
St. Cloud and Albany, arriving at 6:l0
| p. M, four hours late. The branch
passenger arrived ten minutes late,
and was held for No. l, and got out
of here at seven o'clock in the even
ing. 1t arrived at Bemidji at 2 o'clock
Saturday morning, arriving here on
the return half an hour late. NO. I
was nearly an hour late Saturday,
while No. came in a little after 5
O'Clock. The branch was held for No.
| 2, and got out of here between FIVE
and six o'clock.
No. 8 passed here at 1920 Saturday
morning, over six hours late, while
No. 6 was only an hour late. The
local passengers, No. IL and II, rum
ming between ST. Paul and Fargo,
were off their sehdules from half an
hour to an hour both Friday and Sat-
urday. On Sunday the Oriental Linn
tied was on time westbound, and four
hours late eastbound. Monday No. 2,
the eastbound Oriental Limited, was
annulled, owing to trouble on the
western end of the line. All freight
trains were annulled Friday morning
and did not start out again until Sun
day.
The storm was general, extending
to the Pacific coast and later, after
passing here, going to the Atlantic.
Railroads were tied up all over the
country and there were numerous de-
railments, though only few persons
were hurt.
The storm was so bad on Friday
that the rural mail carriers, who
started out on their routes, were COM
PEELED to turn back. The country
roads were left in fearful condition
by the storm. The rain storm caused
considerable comment here. Clark
Case remarked to The Herald that he
had lived here good many years and
had never seen anything like it.
Other old settlers confirmed what he
said relating their experiences.
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