Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-01-17
SN0WST0RMS
BLOCK TRAINS
CAR OF FISH ON ONE TRAIN MAY
SUPPLY FOOD FOR
HUNGRY.
ONE RELIEF TRAIN is WRECKED
Relief Rushed Both Ways Toward
hemmed In RoekIes.-Extreme
Low Temperatures Prevail
and Workmen Suffer.

White Fish, Mont, Jan. 1.-THE
storm which has been raging in the
Rockies since last Sunday, has sub
sided, and it is hoped that within the
next "a hours, the trains which have
been imprisoned along the line of the
Great Northern between Midvale and
Summit will be able to. proceed. No.
Is carrying baggage and express. No
81, fast mail. and No. 3. westbound
passenger, are the belated trains that
have been caught in snow slides and
drifts and have laid there since Mon.
day.
No. 3 carried the dining car and 1t
is believed that it is supplied with
ample food and fuel 80 that none OF
the passengers or crew has suffered
Nothing definite has been learned as to
the condition of No. q, as those In
authority are very reticient about the
matter. However, it Is claimed that
No. % was carrying car of fish and
in case of emergency the crew could
exist on that diet for. an indefinite
time. 1t is said to be very cold with
the thermometer around "a and
80 below, but unless the wind rises the
rescue crews will soon release them.
General Manager Gruber arrived on
the scene with rotary from the Minot
division, and will work in a westernly
direction and Mr.. Brown, general man
ager of the western division. also ap-
peared at the west of the blockade
with a rotary from the Cascade and
Fernie lines and with Superintendent
w. R. Smith, accompanied by a large
force of men and snow fighting equip
ment, it is believed that the blockade
will be relieved unless the elements
get busy and undo all their efforts.
Tell Story Of Hardship.
Moosejaw, Sask., Jan. 1.-THE first
teams that have arrived from Leeville
and Dewdrop since Christmas came in.
The six members of the party told a
story of much hardship and suffering.
They have made a journey of IS miles
in three days, which, considering the
fact that they had to break roads
through drifts, was fairly good time.
They brought in two men who are
frozen, one so badly that it is thought
his feet may have to be amputated.
They also conveyed the dead body of
a woman who died southwest of Lake
Johnston and was being brought to the
city by her husband. He had made
slow progress on his melancholy trip,
it having taken him five days to travel
80 miles, when he was picked up by
the party.
Men report much hardship among
the settlers owing to the terrible cold
and storms. One man is said to have
carried a sack of -four six miles be-
cause he could not get . horse
through. The party will take back
full supplies to the freezing and starv-
ing settlers.
Wires Down In Sierras.
Sacramento, Jan. l4.-With all tele'
graph and telephone wires into the
Sierras down. the Southern Pacific
and Western Pacific Offices here can
obtain but meagre reports Of the ex
tent of the blizzard that 10 raging in
the mountains.
Western Pacific trains west bound
are held at Portola and the east bound
overland at Beldon, Can. The east
bound Southern Pacific continental
trains that left Thursday night are
stalled at Colfax and Emigrant Gap
CAL, while those due on the coast can
not leave Sparks, New.
Western Railroads hampersd.
Salt Lake City, Jan. l4.-Reporta
received at railroad Offices here indi
cate that the IS hours ending at noon
yesterday witnessed the worst snow
storm in 20 years in the Sierra Nevada
range. 1t badly delayed traffic on the
Western Pacific and the Southern Pa
cifc. On the first, four passenger
trains, anS on the latter, 10 trains have
been at a standstill.
The Southern Pacific 10 moving
trains freely east of Sparks, New. ON
Gals say the whole line will be re
stored early today.
Relief Train Wrecked.
Spokane, Jan. 14.-Running light
at high speed Great Northern Engine
No. 1913, bound east from Spokane
to the relief of trains snowbound II
the Rockies, left the track four milet
east of Priest River, Idaho, and
plunged down a 35-foot embankment
crashed through the ice into the PEI
d'Oreille river. Engineer w. F. Sun
walt and Fireman Don j. Keisler botf
met \eath.