The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-02-11
THE MORNING AFTER
Officials Get Busy to Clear
the Road-Milwaukee Engine
Of the Track.
(From Wednesdays Daily

Well, hat storm is a thing of his
tory, and when the morning dawned
today the brightness of the sum-, the
peaceful condition of the wind would
not lead one to believe hat such a
fearful storm had beer in progress,
except for the piled up snowdrifts
here and there.
Fol thirty-two hours the wind
howled and the snow was lifted from
one resting place t. another. New
drifts We're formed while others were
swept away. The storm lasted we'll
into the night of Tuesday, but it
subsidized along toward morning.
With the coming of the day the
railroad men We're astir to begin the
herculean task of clearing the road
bed from this division point to San
born and Chamberlain. Conductor
Workman started out with a crew of
men and a double header engine, the
head engine being equipped with a
large snow pillow to clear the road
west to Chamberlain. The crew met
with an unfortunate accident when
it got 2 1-2 miles west of the city.
They encountered a huge snow drift
and they went at it with all the force
of the two engines. They found the
snow packed very hard, but made a
hole in it about SO feet deep. The
next shot they took at the monster
drift put the head engine out of COM
mission for it left the rail and skat-
ed along some distance before it
stopped. The drift the engines were
trying to get through was twelve feet
deep and about 800 feet long. That
put a stop to further operations and
a force Of men had to be secured to
dig the engine out of the snow bank
into which 1t had p%recipitated itself.
! This will be the means Of delaying
the opening up of that line to Cham
berlain for the rest Of the day. The
reports received Of the snow west to
Chamberlain we're to the effect that
the cuts were filled from three to
five feet deep. There is no snow
| plow at Chamberlain to start east
and consequently nothing can be
done about opening up the line until
the two engines are rescued from
the snowbank.
From Chamberlain it is reported
that the Black Hills line is open and
that trains came through yesterday
and reached there this morning.
There are no bad cuts between
! Chamberlain and Rapid City and the
snow did not have an opportunity to
lodge where 1t would prove a barrier
to traffic.
At 6 O'Clock a snowplow was start
ed east Of Mitchell to clear the road
to Sanborn. The reports received
along the line did not indicate the
prevalence OF very much snow, and
that the drifts in the cuts ranged
from three to five feet deep. Up to
noon the snow pillow was making good
Roadway and had encountered moth
ing but what it could go through.
The snowplow will be run on through
to Sanborn before the passenger COM
ing west will be permitted to leave
there, and will reach Mitchell sew
eral hours late this evening. Short
ly after the s%nowplow went east this
morning the Sioux Falls passenger
was started out, and it was thought
If "o,,1l r001l IT, "
ing the afternoon.
From Aberdeen a snowplow was
started south to Mitchell to clear up
the Jim River line. The passenger
was started out of Aberdeen at 1920
O'Clock and will follow in the wake
Z of the snowplow until the track is
cleared to this point. The north train
is expected to reach here about 3
O'Clock. and 1t might be later, accord
ing to the progress hat is being made
by the pillow.
BY IL o'clock Chief Train Dis
patchar Anderson had received suffi-
clen1.tH good reports from the work
OF the snowplow working east of
here on the Iowa and Dakota diyis-
ion that he ordered a passenger train
sent east at Don. 1t was made up
of a freight car, caboose. and a
couple OF passenger coaches, about
all the equipment hat was on hand
in the yards. The train was manned
by Conductor Wilson and Engineer
Beebe. No mail other than that in
pouches was carried on this train.
Information was received from
Sioux City that the snowplow had
been started out early from that
point to clean up the road to Mitch
ell. Between this point and Scot
lane the snow is reported to be light
in the cuts but south of Scotland
much trouble is anticipated in cut
tins the way through some of the
deep cuts, for from that point the
road runs in a s~outh-easterly direct
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