Show ITOBTHEHN PACIFIC TIED UP t I r Tracks McKenzie Are Sixteen Feet I Under Water i i St Paul Minn March 3JThe situation 1 situ-ation on the Northern Pacific Is extremely ex-tremely serious Reports from McKon t I sle arc to the effect that ti lake thirty I niiles long and two miles wide has t i formed and the tracks are sixteen I feet under Water or perhaps entirely l I I I I washed out Efforts to transfer pas > j sengoia across this lake have not been successful The wind has been so high and the water so rough that much danger I dan-ger has attended the attempt to transfer t trans-fer passengers In small skiffs A gasoline gaso-line launch was put Into service yesterday yester-day but even this larger craft was found inadequate to the task It is thought Hint an entirely new track will have to he built around this gap In f I the road before traffic can once mote i be carried on Passengers eastbound have been held I at Bismarck and westbound coast Eralnu have been started from St PaulA I Paul-A train reached here tonight bearing j who had been a number l of passengers successfully ferried across the lake at I report the situa MoKcnslo and they I tion there extremely bad I I F15AR FAMINE OF FOODSTUFFS I As no freight can bo moved westward I j there la some fear that a famine In In Bismarck and I foodstuffs may result 1 Itu vlcllilty Some of the Northern Pacific I Pa-cific business hus been transferred to the Burlington at Billings Mont and J I In that way It I Is hoped to open an avenue f I of communication with the north i nue const cities The most optimistic of the I I railroad officials are Inclined to believe that It will be at least ten days before through traffic can be reestablished by 01 the regular route It Tloa rails etc arc being rushed to I ffi will be the lake and a temporary track constructed with as much speed as possible An Immense amount of j I freight Is accumulating at both ends of I I the washout and unless this Is soon i moved a great loss will be entailed i upon the railroad company In addition Ito I-to that already occasioned by tho de I lay in trafllc 1 j GREAT NORTHERN TIED UP ito i from the Great Northern are to Reports the effect that their trnnsconUncnI I been tai trains which have heretofore able to get through with only a slight j I delay are now held up by floods in the western portion of North Dakota Just where the trouble Is has not boon definitely defi-nitely determined but telegraphic reports re-ports cay that the Moose river Is out Jot J-ot Its banks at MInot on that line and that numerous bridges have been The Red river Is also at swept away flood tide at Grand Forks N D but i Iso I but little damage so far as reported has been done there I I It I t It l I 1 |