The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
AN EvENTFUL sNOwsTORM.
How a Bride Starved Four Days in a
Blocked-Up Train.

Bl0cked-Up Train.
bradford Correspondence PHILADELPHIA Times.
"All aboard, Be lively now, for we're
going down this grade a callyhootin'l"
Needing the warning of the brazen-throat-
ed conductor, climbed aboard the narrow
gauge train at Kinzua. on the southern ex-
| tension of the Olean, Bradford and Warren
Railroad few days ago. There was snow
in the air. and the gloomy peaks of the tow
ering Alleghenies were shining in a mantle
of white. Among the half-dozen passengers
who clamored aboard the train was tall,
muscular man, with great brown beard and
kind brown eyes. He was evidently an oil
man, and in full possession of the driller's
| characteristic reserve and habitual reticence
| | knew that the sight of the snow had called
up in this mans mind some peculiar men,
| DRY. Before the train had gone ten miles he
was telling his story. He told of Incl
| dent connected with a snow blockade on the
same road. in which half a dozen men and a
young lady constituted the passengers, the
| men in the smoking car and the lady alone
in the ladies car. Besides these the train
consisted of only the baggage car and the
engine. The train became helplessly blocked,
with the snow falling in Clouds and il was
pitch dark.
There was nothing to do but to sit down
and wait for morning. said he. we pulled
up the seats and made beds of them and
| were about to make ourselves comfortable
jumped up with a half yell. Well said
he, we're selfish wretches. Going to bed
here and never once thinking of the woman
alone in the other car With that be bolts
through the door and goes into the other
car. The minute the Judge came through
the door she calls cut, How long before the
train will get to Bradford, conductor
Madame says he, Pm not the conductor,
and came in to say that we're stuck fast in
the snow and will have to stay here all
night and perhaps longer With that she
gives little gasp of disappointment, and
probably had little cry all to herself while
the Judge was lighting the lamps. You sec,
she had come all the way from some East
ern cIty-Phiadelphia j think---to meet
her lover, and by the delay of n snow b.ock-
ade she must miss her wedding day. After
her first disappointment the young lady
was brave enough and was not at all afraid
of staying in the car all night. provided
there was fire, so that she could keep warm
The Judge said he guessed he could NIX
things up comfortable, and went to work
making q bed out of the seat cushions and
three or four OyercOatS, borrowed from the
men. Before morning the cars were half
covered under, and by daylight one side of
the train was out of sight.
Along toward o'clock in the morning
the young lady woke up aud asked how soon
The tram would get through, and the Judge
; answered in good natured way that the
train might be delayed week for all he
could see at that time. Would you believe
me? il that woman didn't a most burst out
crying, But she was as brave as man the
rext minute, and she even smiled when the
Judge proposed to go and hunt for some
thing ia the way of breakfast. A box OF
biscuit was found in the baggage Car, along
with "A barrel of apples We had an elabO-
rate bill of fare that day-apples and biscuit
Tor breakfast, biscuit and apples for dinner,
while for supper we had baked apples and
toasted biscuit. 1t showed all day and no
body left the cars. In the morning we had
! a sumptuOus breakfast OF apples and bis
2 cult. The more impatient of the men, see
! ing that the snow had ceased falling, made
, an endeavOr to beat path up the track, but
they might as we'll have stayed in the cars.
2 We could do nothing but go back To our
! fires and baked apples for the third night.
The men sat up half the night IN the ca
r discussing way of escape. Next morning
2 the Judge made the important discovery
that the provisions had given out. There
was just enough for breakfast and dinner for
2 the young lady. Night came and the men
: went hungry to bed. Even hungry man
d will Sleep andthe little party never awOke
1 until the cold gray dawn was peeping in
through the car windows. The Judge was
nowhere to be found. Search was made,
but no trace OF him could be seen.
; Il don't know how the young lady felt
= that afternoon, but | know she must have
been terribly hungry. There was no break
2 fast on that third day, and no dinner, aud
2 when the shadows of the fourth night began
1 TO fall there was no supper. The coal was
) almost gone Another day would leave US
: without fire. There had been no sign OF
T the Judge all day, and although the men
2 felt that he had gone for help, yet they be-
gan to fear that he had never reached Smeth-
, port. The young lady never once tilnched,
and although her face bore plainly the traces
Z of hunger, vet she spoke not word OF com
4 plant. The men were in their most de-
spOndent mood, when all at once the Judge
, tumbled through the door with something
+ in his hand. 1t was a rabbit He had
, struggled through thesnow all day, and had
2 by rare good fortune, caught the rabbit
l The men soon had the animal skinned and
1 roasted, and the Judge himself carried it to
; the young lady. She would only take hel
share, however, and insisted that the meat,
| scarce as il was, should be fairly divided
? among the party.
elm the afternoon of the next day, q
t gang of railroad workmen, armed with shov-
2 els, and reinforced by four locomotives, q
e snow plow and a passenger car, worked q
! path down the grade and came upon our en-
CINE and train. There was no sign of life
: about the cars, and the rescuing party thai
had started out from Bradford early in the
: morning of the second day of the storm
e working toward us night and day, thought
; that relief had come too late. But the snow.
Z bound prisoners were alive. and the very
, first man to rush into the rear car Of on
, train was the young lady's lover. 1t would
Z, be useless for me to attempt description OF
e the meeting, for the young lady just threw
4 her arms about his neck and cried for very,
e very JOY. When he had led her out of heI
2 prison and carried her in his arms to the
, passenger car of the relief tram. the men oil
l both parties set up such a cheer that made
the mountains echo and re-echo again, and
: the fnghtful way in which those four loco
! motives Joined III the chorus with Their
= steam whistles, would have Weakened the
I dead"
I A Remarkable Race of Men.
Popular Science.l
+, The Monakees or inhabitants of the West
: ern Moon Mountains, appear to be unlike