OCR Text |
Show TRAINS BLASTED OUT. Snow Plowe Could Not Budge Drifts on Great Northern. The flrat transcontinental train to get thrmigh tbe snow blockade In North Dakota reached Bt. Paul over the Great Northern road Sunday. The offtclala report that the lino Is again open and traffic una been ro-sumnd, ro-sumnd, nllhoimh there Is still pome delay. Offlcluls of the northern lines stntn that this has been one of the flercoat battles with enow drifts they have evur experienced, nnd that even Ihe Immense rntnry plows which wero sent against tha drlfta pushed by three heavy engines were almost powerlosa to cope with tho huge mountain of Ice and snow, and that In many Instuncos blasting had to be re-aorUMl re-aorUMl to. |