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Show ' GREAT NORTHERN ROAD TIED IIP By STORMS Railroads Find Greatest Difficulty Diffi-culty in Keeping the Line Open. HAVRE, Mont., .Ian. 11. No train on tho Great Northern railway has moved in or out of Havre for four days, counting to 7 p. m. today, A ray of hope is given the belated travelers all along the line from Grand Forks, X. D,, to Spokane, Wash., in which territory terri-tory trains are tied up nt every division point and at some of tho stations, by tho expression of First. Vice-President Louis W. Hill of the Great Northern, who is himself one of tho 400 tied up at Havre, who says: 1 "There is a bare possibility that we may bo able to get n train started for Spokane in twenty-four hours. However, How-ever, in tho condition nnd prospects of weather, we arc not in a position to civo any assurance." For those who arc now snowbound in eastern Montana and North Dakota, Mr. Hill hns no word of tho slightest oonsolatoin in their predicament. Mr. Hill said: " Tt is a phenomenal winter, tho worst in tho history of the road. It. is terrible. Our management, however, is doing everything within the power of man to accomplish the first three necessary movements in their order; or-der; First, tnc providing of fuel in the suffering districts, next the moving of passengers, and following that, the moving of perishable freight. We are snowbound all aKing tho line from Grand Forks to the Cascades and 111 freights have been pulled ofT the main line." |