Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-07
THE WEATHER OUT WEST.

A4N "GA4AaA w w Go4'
The Recent GrSal SnOV Storm and Unparq1.
5tlIed Cold Snap in, the Wsst-- TIE. .4dven.
tpres Of q Tram on The tticfi5an Central
RAILROAD 7hriIlisg Account Of the@ l.Sut-
ifsragncf Those on BOard-4Sarioo,eo Es-
cape ief ~, Passengers from a Terrible
Death, r-l.Is,gsa % lfrii.,.- ,siaifua
fFtom' the Chicago Tribune of MondAyI mag
You ask me. to detail, my observations
and experience as q passenger on one Of
the trains blocked by the terrible storm of
last Thursday. and Friday.
lido 80, the more scheetfuIly because I
desire, in the absence Of any formal ex :.
preston on the part of the passengers on
the. Michigan Central train, 70 bear willing
witness totheir Appreciationeoffthe efforts
of all those who ministered in any degree
to their comfort or relief. I shan detail as
concissly as possible what came under my
own observation, together with such rumors
as,I thought creditable. era,s II
We left Detroit at about the'usual time
or, Thursday morning, receiving the pas
sengers from the uigbt express on the Great
Western Railway, IT WAS showing slight
as we lett the depot at Detroit. At Mar
shall, where we stopped to dine at O'Clock,
asked Conductor Carter it we were be-
hind timer "A IittleP he reprfed, "but
We shall make it up" 3iz'' 9-tF
|. q About six O'Clock we stopped at Niles for
tea. The storm was lucreasing in violence
and in the volume of snow taIllug, passen-
gers begautOiprOphesyt that the train would
notreaeh Chicago before twelve O'CLOCK
The engine startedthe.train with difficulty.
at QUE or two of the stations thelpassengers
and station hangers; oa were obliged TO
ing gale. It whistled and shrieked as it
rFpshed across our. PFth, aad men looked
out and shuddered, and the women gath
cred near the fires in the centre of the cars,
shiyering. II was plain that the passen-
gers were preparing foR disappointment. h
It,was the New Years eVe-friends we're
waiting expectant, calls were 10 be made
callers were to be received, presents we're
10 bs given, and the safety of The, souvenirs
was carefully looked Catter by5those who
had remembered their friends in their alb
sence, The engine labored through the
storm with it's four or five cars of passen.
gers. We were. approaching Now Buffalo
when a sudden shFiek from the engine sig
nailed "down With the brakes The train
stopped, aud those of us who ventured out
say the or9iqpus Hpd imperative red light
IN the path 1t was told US at first that \
hFeigbt Gain, wsalo Of the strRFssk. Later We.
learned 6hattftewRs hIosKe "a with snow,
and we could. neither move backward or
forward; that messenger had been sent
to New buffalo for an engine to haul us
SbA6B thefeSO Two hours VIC waited for the
remOTal:of thstreight train. AT Michigan
City RiseaOud engine WAS attached to The
train Our prOgressoWas, slow. AT what
time we reached Calumet Station L do not
know. have q recollection of bearing
of the season" ex changed
among the passengers some time before it
was4 announeed'that we could proceed no
further, and that one of the engines had
been dispatched TO Chicago for help. We
were near 1 be. crossing Of The Michigan
Southern Railroad. Why did. We leave
Cabinet II we, could not go on I? was asked.
Conductor Carter replied that he thought
'itWouId not be very difficult to get through
when he left Calumet; but be had decided
it to be safer to send an engine on while it
had wood and Wsters inAsmuch as he found
that he could not get through without new
power. lanaIis 7 ~ Ii7iiie,s ls
Aud We waited and shivered. The cars
were furnished with Ruttan's Patent Ven
tilators, and asi1gte stove to each car, By
some sort Of an arrangement these stoves
did not heat the stmosphere directly. 1t
was as. difficult TO keep warm four feet
from the stove as it wasrtvteuty.F four feet,
nearly" The wood provided was wet or
green, or both, and passenRersin the sec
ond car, in whfrh 4 happened 10 be, had
rode in = semi =shiyer two thirds OF the
night. Exposed TO the shFieking and pen
etrating wind, laden. with frost, which
swept across the low level prairie, the, con-
dition ofths passengers. in these cars be:
came exceedingly uncomfortable. The
shiyer became pain in the feet and chill
and hudder as q the night waned and no
reliet engines camsfaand'the fusl was. fast
disappearing. ey.7.i sod HI ziii
The fences were lbopghtn Of, aud "a 's saw
aided 10 pnttiqGi boards in q shape to feed
the istoIes which yielded no return of CON-
Tort The flames EO9reds up the pipes as
they ate up th g, dry .piue, ana smoke was
discovered about the roof of ithpl car, and
smoke issued from the hoor bedeath the
stoyst YhAt ltE theSEssIa shonld blrin2
What II these, women and children; are
.Iprned ipto this storm ,oa b 6fs y6leak prsi.
Tie7a Islitnor better Goy sH Ter . little more
cold here thar perish FOR want of shelter
on this pssrle7 These we're f6ss questions ojns
suggested by this ere alaEm.s Aud the re- la.
ply came promptly. 1--WE must'Be careful;
il our esrsAeee bdFning We eA4not save The
train" O6e car did burn 30 as tosrendeP
S4Ha55sd i Poi bjssSis Ga sea i
was nOJtsdfe 20 'kindle another in it,. :. Aud
60 tThs hours passed, The cold grew colder;
the wind 6oRled and. shriedsd like mad; the
sh0W.f fiIled the air, and the frost dfo1e'ih'I
thropGb avery crevice, piercing tbathe'l
quick SHieRE Eaahd children, like sharp
needles. Those who l1ads ilugch baSEets
That were not paptyS catethlly aisttibntedS
OF their stores sRmolg Ehss itile abnes, and
thSswATnest hooks were given to nursing