The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-03-17

cept by wire, for a period OF two days,
and 10 the average resident VI this wide
awake, hustling city, il seemed decade.
The morning passenger train departed
Rom this station on time on Sunday, and
that was the last seen 81 n vanished or
any other kind of ear until late on
Monday evening. To follow the move
ment of trains and the Incidents in con-
nection Herewith last Sunday would fiji
a book. The passenger train left here OH
time and ran until il reached Common
weslth without encountering any serious
trouble, On leaving Commonwealth the
train became stalled i'm "A snow drift and
hall an hour was consumed i'm releasing
it. No more trouble was encountered
until the train reached Spread Eagle
where il again was stalled this time two
hours wasdevoted TO releasing It, Every
thing went well until near the cemetery
at Quinnesec when IL ran into "A bank of
the beautiful and the train men wisely
shook their heads and called il an all day
job, when "double-headcr" snow pillow
which had been sent out from Escanaba,
hovein sight, which quickly cleared things
and the train proceeded on its way TO
Powers without further trouble, arriving
there several hours behind time. The
snow pillow went on west and had prac-
tically clear sailing until Carney's spur,
three miles west Of Stagcr was reached
when the tire OF one Of the drivers ON the
rear engine became lose and disabled il
SO far az any further use i'm "bucking"
snow was concerned. The snow pillow at
the time Of the accident was waging war
against a big snow bank and the engineer
Of the head locomotive determined Co try
it alone and did SO, the result being that
the engine became fast in the snow and
the rear engine had also become fixture
and there they were. In the meantime
the passenger tram, which was the only
one out at the time returned, bound for
Watersmeet. Arriving at Stager the
conductor received orders TO stay there
until news was had from the snow pillow
The news soon came i'm the shape Of n
man Tor the seat OF trouble. The con
ductor was ordered 20 take his train and
go to the assistance OF the snow pillow
which he did, arriving there at about
nine o'clock p. m. The passenger loco
motive was Immediately detached and
went TO work The train crew and many
oi the passengers got out with shovels
and cleared the track between the engines
and soon the three locomotives were
coupled together, but in trying To get n
start the one in the middle was pulled off
the rails and no amount Of pulling and
twisting would induceit togo back where
il belonged. This was pretty how-do-
you-do. The passengerengine endeavored
20 push the cars out backwards but could
not bulge them. A very much discour-
aged feeling generally prevailed about
that time. The conductor and one OF
the brakemen then walked 10 Stager and
asked headquarters for assistance. Iron
Mountain being the nearest point from
which help could be sent, an engine and
cahoose was soon dispatched To the scene
oftrouble, and arrived within eighty rods
Of the disable train when il became
stalled and had to be shoveled out. IL
finely coupled ON TO the passenger cars
and after repeated attemps started the
wheels i'm motion and made time to
Stagcr, where the passenger train was
detached and started for Crystal Falls,
while the engine and caboose returned 20
Iron Mountain. The passenger train
arrived ut Mastodon about five o'clock
n. m. and encountered snow in such large
quantities that il was compelled 10 re-
turn The passenger train from Waters
meet succeeded in reaching Saunders
spur ON sunday night aud becoming fast
in thesnow remained there until morning.
The road was cleared out by Monday
night and all trains were ON time ON
Tuesday