Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
BIG SNOW BLOCKADE
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continued to fall and the wind blew
gale filling up cuts about as fast as
they were cleared, and engines, snow
plows and trains were packed in by
the SHOWS and rendered helpless.
P. c. Eldredge's special was up as far
as Nekoosa, where he had to detrain on
account of the engine attached going
into the ditch.
Over 200 people were snow bound at
Grand Rapids, and halls and lodge
rooms had to be brought into use to
take care of the crowd
Unless we have other heavy storms
within the next week, we will not be
troubled with blockades again this
| spring, for which we will be thank
| full.
Between Junction City and Rudolph
were snow banks fifteen feet high and
| for two miles along.the tracks in which
| the st. Paul road had two freight
trains, six engines and two snow
| plowS stalled.
The st. Paul and Northwestern lines
| of road had each from $50 to $50
men clearing out the right of way of
huge bodies of snow during the late
|
to the shovelers.
| Nearly car load of mail and ex-
press arrived in the city Sunday night
on the st. Paul and was distributed
Sunday and Monday by the post office
force and carriers, the bulk of which
was a week old.
Snow was shoveled to three levels
in places on the st. Paul-from the
track up about six feet, where men
were placed, whoa shoveled six feet
higher, and men shoveled from there
to a higher level.
The Northwestern run a passenger
train through to Marshfield yesterday
afternoon. While it has gotten trains
through since the big storm Tuesday
night, this was the first run through
without being stalled
The street cars are now running
through to Rothschild. They say that
it is well worth ones time to take a
run down to the end of the line, just
to see the snow piled in high drifts
each side of the track.
Several of the men out at the sani-
forum, five miles west. of Wausau,
walked to thereby on Sunday, comm &
over on the Northwestern tracks. They
found drifts seven feet high across the
track built up by the wind over night
A crowd of Merrill men, who had
been snowbound in Wausau for sever
al days, on Sunday hired M. ]. Klimek
to take them through in one of his
livery rigs. They managed to get
through, probably by lodging the
drifts.
The bankers and. farmers from at
tendance at the Banker-Farmer excur-
sion to Madison the fore part of the
week, struggled back at different in
tervals, finally all reaching their
homes for Sunday services in their
) different localities.
Sunday and Monday there were no
trains over the Northwestern road
from the west, the line being badly
blockaded in various places between
here and Marshfeld. Many men from
the city went out Sunday all armed
with shovels to help clear the track.
They returned Sunday evening a tired
| lot of men,
Men, women and children have had
to stay at our depots the past few days,
|
been the case, especially at the North
western, az trains came through to
Wausau, but could not go beyond. One
little girl, about II years old, had to
be taken care of for couple of days.
On Monday morning a message was
received from the officials of the st.
Paul company saying that the road
would be cleared of snow drifts by
noon, and the train leaving Wausau at
1925 a. NJ, could start on time with
assurances of running through. 1t
was expected that the last of the big
drifts could be cleared away by the
time the train reached near Grand
Rapids, where the greatest trouble has
been. Mail has been transferred to
other roads, at times, from the St.
Paul and carried across snow drifts,
and the train yesterday brought a
large amount of mail, SO Wausau has
now received nearly all from that
source.