Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-03
Railroadinr i'm the Snox

fARTf OF SEVENTY PASSENGERS INPRrSaSED
AT SANDY GREEN FOR EIGHT DAYs-How THEY
KILLED TIME.
Mr., r. NJ. Stearns. commercial traveller ar
rived IN Syracuse from sandy CreeL, las night
cohlng Dy way or Rome. Mr. StearnS lpff Ills
SiIy LOT WATERFOWL just one week AFRO ypster
uns: Inc Iraln reached Sandy Creak ard couId
proceed no further on account OF the h,axte
SNOW Storm. There were some seventy erantrSs
men m, ana ladies' in the same dilemma arfiyinT
a, thdt slatioh sometime during the same day
ana there the crowd has been comneIIed IN ~
man Tor eight days, being unable 10 communal
SatS Win me outside world save by telegraph
naIious eNpedients were reSorted TO to make
the time pass pleasantly Sleighinr naITieS
were lnproviSed and euchre was Kept rilnninC
night and day. Most OF the passengers put up
at the holelS- and some few OF them remained
the entire time on the train, Conductor ia ,k
Hebron kindly running the same down to the
notei when his passengers wanted 10 take their
meals.
Among those present we're gentleman from
san Francisco and New York. one young man
rom California was on his way 10 Gouveneur.
81. Lawrence county. where he was 10 he mar
ried. ..W hat shall do:" was the young mans
aSoniZed query. DO" repeated they; why
telegraph Your Situationi" And he telegTa piled
and the answer came back. 1--WE are al ready
and waiting for you?' Then the agouizei
young man shrleked: 'We!l. they amt waiting
any worse than l aLh:'' Among the snow
pound was Rev: 5: A. Haight, OF the First Pres
byteran Church WateitoWn. He couldn't n!a,-
euchre very wen, but he could smoke and
preach, and lie did the latter with great a.cel,-
ance last sunday in the Congre Tatloaal Caprch
IN the village. An the passengers wao co3ld
do so turned out 10 swell the congregations nr
A fendrick. or New YORK. was going Ia attend
the funeral OF lis father al 0gdenSbUrg While
waiting he received the sad announcement of
the death OF his mother. still another gentle
man from New York. DR.. Richmond received n
telegram OF the Illness of his child OF course
such news made them all the more anxious 10
nave the blockade raised. At Hancnett' : Cross
Ing, three and oae-half miles above SANDY
creek, two engines and snoW-plow were fast
In a snow bank for week. the engineers aud
hIemen walking mile To farmers TO board
fItday last. having used all their fuel they
were obiiged to leave their engines on the track
Yesterday evening a train got through from
tile Soutii. ana started back with many of the
imprisoned passengers. Between Sandy Creek
aud kichiand the locomotives We're again caught
IN me immense SnOw-drfftS, but finally man.
aged TO reach Richiand. where another locomo-
i've was put on. and Rome was finally sighted
Inc snow drifts are all the way from six TO fif-
Teen 1eet deep. Yesterday, all along the line
from Sandy Creek TO within few miles OF
kome, the snow came down in perfect sheets
tle passengers declaring they had never before
experienced such storm. Last SUNDAY the
imprisoned passengers showed their aDpre.i-
atioh OF the efforts Of Conductor IIebrin nv
presenting him with S;s5 and set of rrSolutionS
OF thanks. The conductor certainly earned botb
Tie thanks and the money
A dispatch from WatertOwn last NIGHT saws
The snow blockade was raised all along the main
llne ana trains Will be running all right to-day
ISSrdc4Se Standard. Dee. ST.