The sun., 1872-12-28
ONE NIGHT ON A RAILROAD
FOUR MILES or Cars AND loco
NOTIFIES At FREMONT.
Out Of Water and Out of Food IN an Impeu-
etrRbie snow Bank.

Out OF water and Out Of Food In an Impcu-
etrabie snow Bank.
No trains arrived in New York over the
Harlem, Hudson River, or New Haven road
between o'clock on Thursday afternoon and
yesterday morning The Last train down was
the New Haven express, due at 12i3 A. NJ. It
arrived at z. M. The 1890 y. NJ. way train from
White Plains due in New York at 1:50 p. NJ. ar
rived at willlamsbrldge at p. NJ and laid up.
The HAS A. NJ. accommodation from Stamford
over the New Haven road, due at 1:12 r. NJ, ar
rived at Mount Vernon at $50 p. NJ, and the To-
c3mnti.e having no water the train laid up. The
=. NJ, stuck in a drift half a mile below that
place. The 3-25 +. NJ. train from the same place,
due ~ $40 7; NJ, coupled on 20 the 2l5 train,
the trains backed to Willamsbridge and leaving
the 1915 train the two locomotives started with
the 80 train and arrived in Fordham at $50 y.
NJ. There the train stuck In Il snow drift. The
locomotives, after having been dug out, started
an hour LATER bTnq g fPSS s% onS SGy % %
tanco OF one mile and n half, at 4 o'clock. Tho
SSS2mSSes FSS ssn started 10 pPent the road
thcr. Then they returned and pulled the train
as far "a they could.
get low in the boilers willlamsbridge being
the only water station after leaving New York,
train ON the side track TO that place. Just then
the New Haven accommodation due at 3:l2 =. NJ.
arrived with
THE DISABLED LOCOMOTIVE
and baggage and passenger car Of the Stam-
ford train. Conductor Mlclle. In charge Of the
Harlem train, requested the New Haven enei-
their locomotives might go ahead ana open the
road. Everybody then began shoveling snow In
search OF the switch. About llb'elock they found
Y, but when the locomotives attempted to start
the train the wheels had frozen fast To the rails
After an hours longer shoyelIng the train
water gave out in the New Haven loco
motives, and they were useless. The nos-
and IL was suggested that Its locomotive should
help to pull the New Haven trains on the side
shod Tser t wnien me Two ehhrSss locomotives
| snorted until O'Clock, but failed to move the
train Then the express locomotives ran short
| Budway, engineer OF the Harlem locomotive,
which mad reached wllamsbrdge at o'clock,
heard through the wires the condition Of things,
and taking all the water he could stow away
started to the relief Of the disabled trains. He
worked faithfully for two or three hours but
COULD NOT sTm THE TRAINS,
and he switched or by this time the Chatham
mail from Albany over the Harlem road, due at
6.s7 z. NJ, had arrived. Then the Rutland ex-
press over the same road came along, and was
followed by the second BOSTON express, due at
1l:l2 Z. NJ. IL was then A. NJ, and there was a
string OF trains four miles long, reaching to Will
The 30 P. NJ. white Plains train out Of New
York LETT on time. followed by the 3IO j NJ
comm odation, the SOS 7. NJ. Pawling train. and
the SOS p m M Boston express all of which got
cleared, the conductor of the second Boston cx-
press obtained permission from the Grand Cen
tral depot to run down on the up track. With
two locomotives and two cars that train ran In
| about 500 A. NJ
There were about Ave hundred passengers on
the hlockaded trains. About this time they had
all settled down To the conviction that they
must remain in the cars the rest Of the night
Some Of the more energetic began exploring for
edlbles. The owner Of small grocery was
forced TO open his doors. and In about half an
hour all the crackers and cheese. bread pies,
raw ham, Bologna sausagos, onions, potatoes.
and everything else catahle had been carried TO
the cars and eagerly deyoured by the half
starved passengers.
rnE NEXT THING WANTED
was water. Not drop could be obtained.
passenger was gnawing n snow ball. The pas
senEers then doubled up shawls, ovcfcoatS,
cloals, or NUTS for pillows, and coiled them
selves up In the seats as best they could. Half
an hour later nearly everybody was sleeping
few groups occupied corners cracking Jokes.
M y. VI. all were again astir, and search
was begun for coffee: The old German who
keeps the grocery had black coffee at hfteen
cents cup, and he was soon relieved OF all he
had. Having eaten the remnants OF their lunch
the pas sengers import med the conductors con-
cerning the probabilities ot reaching the city,
soon after the Chatham mail and express passed
down On the up ttacN, but uld not stop. At :
O'Clock stamford train coming down on the
up track was siInaled, and all the passengers
who could Pile In were transferred. At the
| Spuyten Duyvel junction of the Hudson River
Railroad the train crossed 70 the down track to
| opan the road TO the city, and after two hours
| hard work landed it, passengers In the Grand
Central depot.
A large force of men was sent to dig the six
trains out yesterday morning. NO trains were
sent out OF the Grand Central depot ycat ertay
morning. No Hudson River traus arrived be-
tween last night and q o'clock ON Thursday
morning. the Spuyten DuyNel cut la MofTisa-
MIA has twenty feet Of snow m II.