The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-01-21
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st. Paul, January 13.-The

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st. Paul, January 13.-The
storm which began yesterday
continued over the middle west,
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minneso-
ia, North and South Dakota, Ne
braska, Kansas and Missouri
bearing the brunt. The tempera-
lures in the Canadian North
west dropped as low as fifty eight
degrees below at Prince Albert.
In ST. Paul the thermometer this
morning registered thirty one
below.
Both freight and passenger service
on most of the roads running to Man
Ratio was greatly demoralized by the
bad weather yesterday and today
Yesterday afternoon all the freight
trains on the local divisions of the
Omaha and Northwestern were an
nulled.
Passenger Train No. 10 on the
Omaha, from the south, due at 4:3O
a. m. today was seven hours late.
No. 2, due from the south at SEP
a. M, was seven hours late. No. 8,
due from ST. James at 1925 a. M,
was an hour and half late. No. 4,
due from Omaha yesterday afternoon
at five O'Clock, did not arrive until
1870 this morning. The Omaha snow
pillow, with an engine and caboose,
while on it's way from st. Paul to st.
James, was stuck in the snow for
about fifteen minutes short distance
east of ST. James. yesterday after
noon about one o'clock.
On The Northwestern.
On the Northwestern line, passen-
ger Train NJ. 514, due at 4:35 yester-
day afterno.l, did not arrive until z so
D. m. This train comes from the west.
No. SIT, due from the east at 1905
p. m. yesterday, got here at ITO p. m.
Trains from the east did not suffer
anything like the handicaps, that
those did which came from the west.
No. IS, due from the west at 7:55
D. m, yesterday, arrived at 1882
p. m. The regular No. SIC, due this
morning at $40 did not come until
1G:45 a. m.
On the Milwaukee line, Passenger
Train No. AZ, due here from Minne-
apolis at 10 p. m, yesterday, did
not get here until four a. M, today.
Trains on the Dan Patch line did
not share in the handicaps that the
other lines had, the Dan Patch line
being geographically more favored.
Street Cars on Schedule.
Cars on the local street car line
were this morning running on sched-
ule. All last night and all the night
before, the sweeper was out, keep
ing the tracks clear. as far as it was
possible to do so. From two yester-
day afternoon to 1880, the service
was tied up, but service was resumed
to some extent on all the lines after
1880 last evening. The storm meant
thirty-siX hours of almost constant
work for practically all the car hand
lers that the company had available.
Trains Were Suspended.
On the Northwestern line between
Tracy and Watertown all train serv-
ice was suspended last night, on ac-
count of the very bad weather.
Two tramps on Omaha Passenger
Train No. 8, at Mountain Lake yes
terday afternoon, had to get off the
platform of the blind baggage car,
where they had stood between that
and the tender, because they were
so thoroughly chilled. They were so
cold that they could hardly walk, but
they soon recovered on getting the
benefit of fire in the waiting room.
Some Cold Weather.
st. Paul, Mimi, January 13.-Tem-
peratures at various places in the
American and Canadian northwest
were recorded at seven O'Clock this
morning as follows: st. Paul, Mimi,
81 below; Battleford, so below; Boze-
man. Mont, "A below; Devils Lake.
n. OAK. AZ below; Havre, Mont, 46
below: International Falls, ~ below;
Bemidii, 80 below; Aberdeen, 50 be-
low; Fargo, 40 below; Watertown, So
below.