Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-02-05
p.;lroaa travelling in Winter.

Abiding to the difficulty the trans had
a.. week before last in making their way
rb the snow drifts hence to Chicago,
T,,buue Of that city says, that there
,r,,e sixty passengers, among them two
VA, and that they at one time had nothing
o.t for thirty hours. Tley lived most of
;, lime on crackers and behring's and drank
melted snow,
The same paper says;
.Tbe trains which left here on the Chi
..ro and Mississippi Road on "Wednesday
on5 Thursday mornings, bath succeeded IN
a, a snow bank about nine miles this
tio.nf Pontiac, where they still remained at
,na la,est adyices. On Thursday light the
.,.L of wood gave out and the emgrant
oars were chopped to pieces for fuel, which
.ant the passengers from perishing I'LL
~,d,ninr. The number OF passengers i'll
,ha t,yo trains is about two hundred and fiji
W. ,a,ano them are several ladies and
ION Friday morning the provisions gave
on,;relv ont. and starvation stared them IN
the flce. Il being remembered, however,
4 ,b.t there were some oysters IN the express
ar that was broken open, and some two or
,bra hundred cans Of bivalves were found.
Th;s or;ze was distributed among the pas
Il sonyers. and furnished an excellent break
.,st The cans being cut in two, served ex-
celently well for stew pans, whiie those
who preferred them raw were more easily
suited. During the morning, several Of me
gentlemen .adcd through the snow to The
nearest farm house, some four miles distant.
HIRE they found eleven horses, which were
soon hiteAed up to teams and set 10 WORK
,akine fuel and provisions to the cars. Some
of the ladies' and children came up TO The
farm house, here they probably would re-
main until the road was cleared. Some Of
the passengers obtiined team and came
across the country to Morris, from which
place they came here by railroad"
The St. Louis Republican thus gives some
Of the experience Of the passengers on the
same Railroad
"We have been favored with an interest
inr statement of an occurrence on the Chs
cago and Mississippi Railroad, which took
place on Saturday night, about four miles
this side OF Yinden. The locomotive at
tachcd to tie down train ran into snow
bank on tie track and stack fast Efforts
were made to get through it by digging, &C.,
which proved intellectual aud then the en-
rinecr endeavorcd to run the train back,
which was also failure. During the delay
the snow had driiled in large piles all around
the cars. and was near covering them entire
". The conductor. Mr.. FIsHER. and other
officers were in a quandary. They could
neither 90 back nor forward. and were obiig-
ed to remain quiet and abide the mercy OF
The storm. This did very well for while,
bot Mt length the wood gave out. and none
was TO be had at any point in the INN ed'ate
vicinity. Scouts were sent out to surprise
wood plies. and with difficulty returned with
meagre supplies. Something must be done, 4
and as a last resource the seats in one oil
the cars were cut up for fuel to keep the
,assengers--a number Of whom wera ladies'
from freezing. Il was intensely cold
and many Of the male passengers who eX-
posed themselves to the weather for the
purpose ofgettna provisions, &c, had Their
ears, fingers and toes frost bitten. This
state Of things lasted till Tuesday morning
when the snow storm had ceased and the
blnk had been diggcd away, and wood
enough had been obtained to get up steam
The train arrived in Alton abont o'clock
yesterday morning, all in good spirits, not
wi'hstandime their hardships, which they
were now free 70 joke about