The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-02-29

Railroad Saowed up-Three Hundred Men md
Women Thity-eigbt Hours in Snow-dyiff
rtan Seven Miles Of Chicago.
The snow and wind, day before yesterday,
completely bIockaded The railroads leading in all
directions from this city. OF all the trains that
-t here Yesterday morning only one succeeded
10 penetrating the huge drifts and preceding on
its way; all the rest returned.
On the Chicago and Milwaukee Road no
train has left this CITY since Monday afternoon,
and only one has arrived since then, which " as
at niat o'clock last night. The accommoda-
ton train, which lr6 Waukegan at seven o.
clock Tuesday morning, proceeded southwark
10 CHl'eRdrn, where drift. several hundred
rods in length, and from ~ o to SIX feet n depth,
was encountered. The impossibiIitv was at
oace seen of passing through the drift with the
rallre train, and the passengers were transfer
red to freight car, near the locomotive, and in
this way were brought 10 the city. Thirteen
cars, however, were left standing on the main
uack-the drift constantly increasing in depth
around them.
The Tuesday morning train from Milwaukee,
arrived at this place al % MINUTES past - o.
clock, and Of course cou!d proceed no further
AF. Hlbbard, the conductor, and Mr.. Brown,
tdr engineer, at once went to work with their
locomotive to haul the standing cars of the main
track, but had removed with only two or three
when the locomotive broke down. Night was
approaching, and 1t became evident that the pas
NogerS mast remain till morning on the praries
iIam neigsb0Tlug farm house Mr.. Hubbard
Procured an ample, though PLAIN, supply of pro-
VISIONS tor their supper, and then started IN a
NrISo to th's city for assistance. He reached
EtFe between nine and ten o'clock, and made
Aao|a his predlcament 10 the Superintendent
" The road, Mr.. johnson, and then, after pro-
curing at the fremont House and other places a
supply OF provisions, returned to his charge in
'arsaowy waste near Chittrnden, where he ar
l'rd dearly frozen, at two o'clock in the morn
in..
10 add 10 the perPlexitles Of their positions,
"e Iael was now exhausted; but very good
substitute for firewood was furnished by the
rgaFd fences on either side of the track. For
'''E or sixty yards the boards were all torn off
1.l consumed 10 warm the cars. During the
",S"', however, locomotive with car load
" wood was seat down from Highland Park,
sDd with this reinforcement, when morning
1lte the conductors, engineers and other opr-
''','ts went again 10 work CLEARING The road.
NJ one O'Clock Yesterday morning the pass
s05'F train arrived from Milwaukee, and found
we cars still buried in the snow The third
Y'oiool'ye joined the others in clearing the
a'A' ana all three were engaged until near
."uo"h before the drift was penetrated. At
% ,Il' loar all the passengers were transferred TO
wv Nv, foremost train and the others returned to
a. NI It was found impossible to get through
W., pFll' with two locomotives, until run was
ga oaek TO Evanston for wood and water
.,oo'' stven-and-a-half last evening the train.
g.;a . loiFty-eight hours passed in the snow
''.'' started for Chicago, and in short time
A.: NV locomotive which had been sent out from
IN, ,.'y .4y Yesterday morning to break the road,
SIN, "Ul'n had been nearly all day in progress
seven m'les.-Chicogo Times, 3lst uH.
op.s, s''e o' our contemporaries are discussing the
I''On, which Is the safest seat 10 case ofrail-
oo ,"'' collision We should choose one about
' A'haFed miles from The railroad.