New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-02-07
RAILWAY AND MAIL SERVICE
DEMORALIZED THIRD TIME
...-. .
IN TWO WEEKS
COUNTY ROADS BLOCKED IN
EVERY DIRECTION FROM
NEW ULM

T~~A>AA~S Va
country during the past week, and the
average citizen has decided that the
weather man is carrying his jokes bit
too far. The first storm of the week,
which was the second severe one in ten
days, began late Tuesday evening and
continued until well into Wednesday.
A heavy snow was accompanied by a
4O-mile gale, which piled the snow high,
and practically tied up railway traffic
from Wednesday morning until Satur-
day.
All Trains Held Up.
While the Chicago & Northwestern
succeeded in getting an occasional train
through, mostly from Mankato and St.
Peter, the Minneapolis & St. Louis had
no train from the Twin Cities from
Tuesday evening until about o'clock,
Saturday afternoon. The train leaving
: here early Wednesday morning did not
reach Minneapolis until the end of the
week. The latter line was opened
Saturday as far south as this city, and
train arrived at p. M, and returned
at once to the Twin Cities. The second
train arrived from the north at 10
o'clock. That was the last Minneapolis
& st. Louis train until the possibility
of one this morning.
A second storm began shortly before
midnight Saturday, which grew in in
testify all of Sunday and far into the
night. The wind was of greater velocity
and the cold more intense than of any
previous storm of the winter SO far
AS a result train service was again para
,lyzed on both lines. The Northwestern
train which left Chicago Sunday night,
due here Monday morning at 1890
/ did not arrive until early Tuesday morn
<ng, and that was soon followed by the
&hicago train due here 1889 Monday
(;ernoon. The Minneapolis & St. Louis
{'ects to get train out this morning.
Iervice to the East on the Northwest
road has been practically restored,
Ishile to the west it was still tied up yes
@terday. A snow plow and caboose
were derailed between Sleepy Eye
and Springfield, and owing to weather
conditions, restoring them to the track
was slow and it was hardly expected
that train could be gotten beyond
that point before sometime last night.
Storm conditions, aside from demora-
lizing the mail and train service, has
worked great hardship on the business
world, and caused much inconvenience
to the people in general. There has
been little, if any, freight service for
the past two weeks.
Freight is Held Up. .
The New Ulm Gas Co. exhausted its
supply of oil in the manufacture of gas
and was obliged to use gasoline. The
finished product. is just as good, but
the cost is considerably greater. While
the company's customers have been
served, the concern itself is out much
b more money; ST." -...
1.-THE New ;Ulm Publishing Company
has had ton or. more of paper, on which
to print one of it's several publications,
on the way from Minneapolis for ten
days. The last heard of the shipment
it was tied up at Chaska. .,.
The milling companies have been I'M
able to ship their products for several
days and as result the mills have been
shut down for more than a week.
The retail business has been practi-
cally at a standstill for some time,
owing to the fact that the roads leading
into the city are so nearly impossible
that farmers refuse to make the attempt
to reach the city except in cases of alb
flute necessity. Hence the merchants
are depending only on the city. trade
t for the present.
Yesterdays weather forecast indicated
that today would be cloudy and colder.
Reports from the west were to the
effect that another storm was raging
in South Dakota, and no one need be
disappointed if it reached here some
time today.