St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-16
JERSEYS BLAST.
How Every One Suffered in the
Peach Growing Bell.

How Every One suffered ia Vne
Peach Growing Bell.
TRENTON. n. j., March 15.-The ter
rible SNOW storm which struck this city
and vicinity OH Sunday night is unpreee-
denied for the damage and serious an
novance caused. The city was COM
pletely isolated from the outside world
for two days. Not Il word could be re-
ceiyed or sent over Geographic wires,
and railroad communication was en-
tirely cut off Business was suspended
because the streets were lmpaSS-
able and none of the horse car
lines were running. 1t was strange
evnerience for city which has such
admirable railroad facilities. Inc last
train which started out Of this city for
New York on Monday morning was
stopped by an immense drift fifteen
feet deep. about mile from Princeton
junction. There the train was obliged
TO stay from | O'Clock Monday after
noon until II o'clock yesterday morning,
when a relief party succeeded in getting
the hungry and half-froZen passengers
back TO Trenton. The experiences of
the travellers were fearful. During two
nights they were obliged to walk up
and down through the cars to keep
from freezing. Fires were kept
burning in the stoves, but the wind
blew so fiercely that they did not warm
the cars. Several of the men attempted
to walk to Princeton junction, half
mile away, and nearly periShed in the
drifts. They returned to the train with
great difficulty and decided to await
their rescue with all the patience at
their command. Many Of them when
brought to Trenton had their ears and
feet badly frozen. While on the train
they had no provisions until Tuesday
morning, when some farmer brought
sandwiches to tie cars and asked 30
cents for them.
DRIFTS COVERED THE CARS.
The relief party were from o'clock
in the evening until the following morn
ing in completing their task. They had
four locomotives to their train,and even
then it was almost impossible to force
their way through the drifts. Once they
got stuck themselves, and an extra en-
CINE was sent from Trenton. The
water in the locomotives gave out and
the men were forced to throw snow into
the tanks to keep sufficient water IN the
boilers to reach Trenton. The drifts
in MANY places were mile in
length and from twelve to fifteen feet in
height. On Monday night and Tuesday
morning several trains which had been
DELAYED at Tullytown and Bristol, on
the Pennsylvania road, were drawn
into Trenton. The passengers had
spent many hours with neither food nor
sleep, and were nearly famiShed. They
were at once sent to the hotels in the
city and provided for at the expense OF
the company All the passengers were
cared for in this way, and last night the
hotels were so crowded that it was diff
cult to get any kind of accommodation.
Some OF the trains which were SNOW
bound at Bristol did not arrive here
until yesterday. All had suffered more or
less from cold and hunger. On some of
the trains only crackers and water
could be procured, and on this Scantv
fare the passengers lived for IL day or
more. The railroad company did every
thing in it's power to get trains through,
but the wind blew so hard that as fast
as they cleared the way it would fill up
again. Eot until yesterday afternoon
did any passenger trains get through
bearing the mails and few neWSpa-
pers. The latter sold at premium,
bringing in some instances as high
as IS cents each. The Philadel-
phia d Reading road is ter
Tiblv blockaded also. The legisla-
ture has not been in session this week,
the first time such thing has occurred
in the .istory of the state. On Tuesday
there were only three members present,
and a few more arrived yesterday on the
morning trains from South Jersey. Re
ports from all sectionso of the state which
begin to come in slowly show that
country roads are entirely filled up and
travel is next to an impossibility. Milk
men and produce dealers were unable
to get into the city for two days.