Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1912 — FIFTY TRAINS BLOCKED [ARTICLE]

FIFTY TRAINS BLOCKED

Heavy Snow Ties up Railroad Traffic in West. Prairie Country Is Resting Place for Many Blockaded Trains Full of Anxious Passengers. Omaha, Neb., March 15. —About fifty passenger trains were tied up in Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado by the worst storm which has for years Visited the prairie country. Some railroads made no further effort at operating trains, while others dug away with snow plows and hundreds of workmen. The snow drifted 1 badly. ;The Northwestern is the worst hit road. Not a wheel on that line is turning west of the Missouri. The Deadwood train has been in a drift near Fremont, Neb., for many hours. The Rock Island is completely tied up near Belleville, Kan., and no trains can pass either way. The Burlington is in almost as bad condition, six through trains being blockaded near Akron, Colo. The Union Pacific is the only line running trains westward from Omaha. Governor Aldrich is in the blockade in southern Nebraska on the Burlington lines, and cannot get through. One hundred miles of Rock Island tracks in northern Kansas is a snowdrift. A blockade on this portion of the line was raised and trains for three days were got through. The line is in worse condition than before the blockade was raised.