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Show Critical Situation. From St. Paul, Minnesota, comes tho alarming intelligence that eight hundred railway laborers are snowed in, distant a hundred hun-dred miles from any settlement, and with no food. The gravest apprehensions apprehen-sions are felt for their safety as they have been depending upon daily supplies sup-plies of food by rail. The sudden ex-traordinary ex-traordinary fall of snow haa so com- letely blockaded the road that trains cannot pass over it. It seems, to say the least, taking very hazardous chances, for such a body of men, at this season of the year, in that extreme to the northern part of the country, to place their whole dependence for food upon daily railway communication with a supply depot a hundred miles away. It is not unlikely that many of them may die of starvation ere a way through the blockade can be cleared. That men who are accustomed to interruptions interrup-tions and exigencies of winter railway operations in tho northern States, should take such chances is as surprising surpris-ing as this telegraphic report is start-Hog. |