The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-18
TRACK TOPICS.
Notes and Incidents of the snow
Blockade.


! Notes and Incidents of the sncw
I Blockade.
Il is feared that the washouts which
may be expected if the snow melts sud
denly win prove very destructive
Charley Jones, formerly freight con-
ductor on the II. K s T.. is running q
train out of Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Fl. b. Garnett, an old N. K. & T. con-
ductor and engineer. has accepted con-
ductorship on the Denver and Rio
Grande.
The recen, rain has oyerfiowed all the
creeks and rivers along the line of the
Pacific. but no damage to the road is re-
ported.
It is said that there were seventeen
''dead' engines AZ one time between En-
pora and Topeka. during the receat
snow blocade.
"ChIck" Warner. one of the Paciac's
most popular passenger conductors. has
been running train since he was seven
teen years of age
We learn that the snow was drifted to
such an extent ON some portions of the
western end of the road that wagons
could not get within three miles of trains.
The round house Sunday was CON-
pletely denuded Of engines, and every
thing in the shape of locomotive was
out on the track blowing the snow
drifts.
A train OF three coaches and dining
car, arrived in Emporia Monday,
with crew of $50 men. who left Tope-
ka on Saturday. to buck the polar bear
along the line OF the Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe company has brought
every available means to bear in Crap
| ping with the situation. and has met
the entire expense incurred by passen-
gers by reason of the embargo in travel
along its line.
The citizens of Emporia, chronic
grumblers and wild-eyed agrarians in
cluded, have come to the conclusion that
this would be pretty dull world with
out ''grinding mOnopolies" and soul
less corporations"
The report that Conductor McNeal of
this city. was one of the parties killed
in an accident ON the western end of the
Santa Fe, is contradicted by his friends
in this city, who say he Is running on
the Mcpherson branch.
The five engines that came In Monday
morning from the seat of war, presented
strangely demOralIzed appearance,
with their drivers clogged with snow,
the cab windows battered in and other
evidences of tough usage.
Several of the apple boys who con-
tribute so literally to the deafeniDg din
which greets the ear of the stranger who
puts foot upon the platform of the Santa
Fe depot at this place, were saved from
insolvency by the timely appearance OF
the trains Monday.
The failure of mail from any direction
for four whole days called to the minds
Of the old-timers the days when all trans
portation 10 and from Emporia was
effected by means OF horses, and the ar
: rival of the stage coach was an event Of
mucn interest IN EmpOfla.
Seven or eighties loads of hogs which
had been prepared for a shipment, had
to be unloaded at the Emporia stock
yards, and it was only by dint of watch
ing them night and day, that many wer,
: prevented from smothering to death, al
they huddled together to escape the eff
: fects of the severe cold.
A change took place this week in tn,
3 run of messengers for the Pacific ex
7 press. Heretofore three men have beer
running from SedalIa to Parsons and re
f turn, and three from Parsons to Deni
a son and return. Under the new deal tn
!. entire six will run through from Seda
; liza to Denison and return.
f The town of Scranton, between her
: and Topeka was literally eaten out @
e everything in the way Of'provisions b,
e the passengers on couple of trains ths
!. were snow.bound at that point, and it i
: difficult to estimate to what degree Tar
c ner's philosophy might have been calle'
c into requisition, had the way not bee
q cleared to Topeka in time to allow tn
e trains to run in for supplies.