Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-03-13

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=. Stowe, March 1. 1872. Lila.
RailrOading under DIFFICULTIES.
MB. EDfToR:-
The week just past has demonstrate
! that the difficulties Of winter travel. an
the successful bloekadipg BY snow. ar
+ not confined to the Pacific Rail Road
AMI that intense suffering by reason o
exposure to the severe cold weather. /
not wholly on the Plains and Rocky Mts
There is not Rail Road in this stat,
that did not suffer from las; week storm
ID consequence Of the decays Of trains
aud damage TO rolling stuck. The mat
train on the j. & D. r. r.. VI. Division
left So. Hardwick at 625, the schedul,
time, Tuesday morning Of last week and
proceeded without difficulty to within
about one mile Of +. Hardwick where il
encountered a snow drift some twenty or
more rods long, and six TO eight feet
deep. A small pillow was attached to the
engine, but it was not sufficient to throw
out so large body Of snow, and when
about half way through the train was
brought 10 a stand still, and could not
be moved a foot.
All on beard Immediately went to work
to clear the train Of snow, and took turns
in using what shovels there happened to be
on the train; aud after while more
shoyels aud few section men we're pro-
cued to aid The wind blew Ike a
hurricane, aud the cold was intense, ears.
noses, fingers aud toes were more or less
frost biitea, aud the enginear and fireman
did their level best to keep the engine
from freezing After working until half,
past eleven O'Clock, VIC succeeded 10 get
ting through and arrived at L Hariwick .
At noon. A telegram to St. Johnsbury
had been sent tie night before, for
snow pillow to come over aud clear the
rack, accordingly pIow started at 2.I5,
hat morning, and came as far as the
Punkin Hill tressle but just as it was 90.
ng on the tresslc, it got off the track. aud
,ould not be got back until late in the
lay, when they went back to St. Johns
Jury, and started again with the pillow and
wo engines.
Late in the afternoon. telegram was
eceived that the plow had passed the
tation at DanvilIe, which was the last .
hat could b. heard from it as there is no ,
flee between. t
AT this time our train was getting short t
wood and water, and there was no wa {
n station nearer than Hardwick or Wal.
en-, and to get to either Of those places II
that time was simply an impossibility.
required the eeaseless efforts of the en-. {
neer and fireman to keep the engine h
amps from freezing. An attempt was il
ade TO melt snow in the tank to make .
alter enough to last until water station
'uld be reached, which did not succeed Il
I'd enough water to keep up steam and I'll
'ep the engine IN motion was procured /
ON spring or small brook by means of "
spout, aud the men worked most Of the ;
ne all night until about o'clock We'd ii
sday morning, where the pumps were "a
ken Oft, the fire put out, and what little n
lter there was run out. and thus the en- u
ne was saved from freezing up. Two \
ssengers only left the train and went to HI
e Hotel at h. Hardwick, all the rest al
as it was expected the plow cl
'uld come through and take us back to &c
lldwick. u
Wednesday morning we all abandoned W
train and went to the Hotel, where We tt
Iyed principally, until the next morning. IL
ednesday night telegram was received e'
At the pillow was at West Danville and N
uld come through on the morrow if pos. q
lie. Accordingly, Thursday morning all g
uds started out, and with a corps of til
,tion men, went to shoveling snow, and al
airing the track towards Hardwlck. AT CT
out three O'Clock p NJ, the pillow with el
o engines, and thirty.fve or forty men I'll
III shnves succeeded in getting through tt
East HardwicS, when our train was NJ
zen in tow, and after getting stuck in =
drift, succeeded in getting back to h;
rdwick Thursday night at about six 10
lock. CT
Friday morning our train having been Ia
in running order, we started for St. "a
hnsbury again, with the pillow, two en- tn
les and one car that carried the work M
n, taking the lead, and went as FAR as to
nvile Station without serious trouble. tn
om Walden the train that was running 3,
pillow, consisted Of two engines, one ca
tform and one passenger car, aud after Gu
ring passed the station at Danville on
rt distance, the train ran iuto drift w
rail turning over. the whole train at
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