Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
March 1, 1890 Saturday

Worst of the Season

Ishpeming - The recent remarks concerning the weather predictions
must have made the bureau man mad and led him to take revenge by
sending us a blizzard. At any rate Ishpeming experienced the most
severe storm of the season yesterday. It snowed and blowed all the
previous night and worse still the storm continued unabated all
yesterday.

The railroads were greatly inconvenienced. The first train
out of here was C&NW No. 4, a snow plow having béen sent ahead as
the first section, The train got along very fairly, but the power
did not fare so well. The engine driving the latter was run in on
the turntable at Little Lake, the intention being to send her back
north again. In turning the engine ran off and went into the ditch,
"and she is down there yet,"' for the wrecking crew will be needed
to pull her on the track again. The northbound train on that
road was two hours late, having made up about 20 minutes at Marir-
ette. The C&NW freights were completely knocked out.

On the South Shore the Boston Limited was an hour late, having
had a rough trip, as the engineer's appearance testified. His
clothes were almost frozen to his back and the whole engine was
one mass of snow. The other train were from one to five hours late.

C&NW
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Stations - Ishpeming