Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-13

no further effort , was made with | the York division. He received intelligence | from New York early in the day that all the l trains that attempted to run out of New | York became stalled at Harlem. Four local trains got showed under at New Rochelle, ,and the last train out of the Grand Central depot yesterday morning was the 4:55 a. m. on the New York Central The storm was even
 more severe in New York, and snowdrifts
 ten feet high block the tunnel entrance, and
 it is entirely impracticable to move about
 the yards. He was of the opinion that trave
 could not be resumed before tonight or to-
 morrow morning. He had never before ex-
 perienced a similar trouble in his twenty-five
 years of service.
 The 6:3O and 7:30 a. m. trains for New
 York, he said, got stalled at Bridgeport, and
 another train was showed under at Stamford.
 No attempt was made to run trains after il
 
 On the Hartford division only one train
 succeeded in reaching the depot in that city
 The 8;29 express out of Hartford got stalled
 in the cut near the City market in this city.
 Conductor Watson J. Ellsworth was in
 charge. There wers two engines hauling the
 train, Nos 129 and 205. The former was
 run by Engineer Thomas O'Neill, and the
 latter by Henry Thompson. At 6 p. ra., with the aid of large gang of shovelers, the train was moved up towards the depot, but was abandoned at o'clock; as it could be pulled no further. The train due here at 9:2O on this division reached the Tin bridge
 junction at 5:30 p. m., when it became
 stalled. It was in charge of Conductor Bradley There were three other trains
 stalled at Meriden They were due in this city at 6:15, and 1:50 8 m.
 On the Berlin and Middletown branch of l the Consolidated two trains were stalled at l East Berlin.
 Superintendent Shepard says that were it not for the fact that the temperature was I oEn he i suffering along the line. As near as could ! be ascertained all passengers on the stalled | trains suffered comparatively little from either exposure or hunger. The trains were principally stalled where refreshments could | be secured by the train hands for those in 1 the showed in cars. There were light hearted and jovinl spirits aboard most of the trains, who made the position of the passengers bearable, and all rather relished the novelty of the thing. But of course there were ex- captions.
 Business men who had appointments in the metropolis or elsewhere grumbled and looked glum. Professional men on urgent business vowed it was the fault of the railroad com pany, and so on.
 SCENES ABOARD A STALLED TRAIN. A COURIER reporter braved the storm and boarded a stalled train in the cut near Chapel street. It was the 9:30 @. m. out of Hartford | which had plunged and ploughed through | huge anowdIifts all day in it's vain endeavor l to extricate itself. Genial Conductor ''Wat" Ellsworth greeted the reporter with eHuslve- l ness. His passengers had been cared for in | regal style and beens served with refresh l ments. Later in the day thirty of them set out for the Elliott House In the drawing ! room car were Judge E. A. Storrs and party
 bound for Florida. They remained in the car all night. They were supplied with eat- ables from the depot restaurant.
 
 Horse Cars Cease Running. All the horse car roads started cars out l early yesterday morning, but it was not long I before they were all taken in, or at least those that could get to their destination. 1 Most of the oars were stalled along the route and had to be abandoned. The Fair Haven route in the afternoon started 8 car out with eight horses attached, and it came down State street shortly after three o'clock. No more followed. President Warren and Super intendent Wells of the State street. line were out with their sweepers and worked vigorous ! ly to make way for their cars, but did not succeed. One good thing that the car sweep CTS did and that was to make path which made it easy walking. On the Fair Haven and on the West Haven roads many cars were showed in.
 Telegraph Wires All Down. As the storm progressed the telegraph | service became bad. At 11:50 there was only one wire between this city and New York, all the others being broken. At that hour | this last wire broke, shutting out all commu- | nication with New York. All the wires | between here and Boston were also broken. | Communication could be had for a time with places in the state, until late in the afternoon \ not wire running into the Western Union | office could be used. No Associated Press | dispatches were received last night. During \ the day messenger boys could not make \ deliveries The last wire between here and New York broke in the middle of the account of the elevated railroad accident. On the Sound.
 | No vessel could have stood it long on the Sound. The steamer New Haven left Belle dock at 3 o'clock yesterday morning, but il | is the opinion of the New Haven Steamboat \ company's officials that she did not venture \ outside the harbor. The steamer John H | Starin. which should have left Sunday night | at 1030 did not get started until 3 o'clock \ yesterday morning. It is thought by the | Starin company's officials that she did not ' get outside of the harbor. The steamer Elm | City, which leaves Belle dock for New York | at 10:30 a. m, did not start out at all. In | fact, no boat of any kind left the docks yes \ tsrday. The steamer Erastus Corning left \ New York for New Haven Sunday night. Ii f is supposed she is harbored somewhere. iut The schools CIese.
 A good many children did not goto school yesterday, but those who did go were soon | dismissed, as Superintendent Dutton sent | word to all the principalS of the various I schools to do so. At the High school two boys were sent home with each girl, to see ! that she got home safely. At the other I schools the boys had to see that the girls all | got home. Many of the teachers waited in the buildings expecting the storm to abate, | but it didn't and the consequence was that they didn't go.home at all. They stayed all night at places near the schools
 Couldn't Get Heme.
 Most everyone got to their work yesterday morning, but very few got home last night, especially the working girls. They either stayed in the shops or went to hotel. It was all a man could do te brave the storm, lot alone a womans trying to overcome it. The girls in the shops in West Haven had to stay there all night. All the shops shut down
 early to give all the employees chance to get home. Two girls who had taken refuge st the Selden House attempted to go home about g o'clock. They got as far as the corner of Court and State street, and the storm was
 so blinding that they had to return home. Walked Ia.
 A party consisting of Ed Hall, Walter
 Nichols and son of F. s. Andrew got start
 ed on the g o'clock train for Branford, and
 when the train got in the cut at Fair Haven
 East it was stalled. They stayed there seven
 hours and then thought they would try to
 hire rig and come over. No one would
 bring them over unless they bought the
 horse. This they refused to do, and they
 started to walk over. They reached New
 Haven at six o'clock last night pretty we'll
 exhausted.
 About the Railroad Yards.
 Nearly every locomotive that ventured out
 of the round house got stuck in the huge
 drifts. Switcher No. ITO, Engineer G. Bak-
 CT and Firewan Deskin, got stuck in a huge
 drift under the Fair street bridge, and at last
 reports was still there. Two Northampton
 engines became stalled under near the State
 street crossing. No. 59, heavy t'Aogul,"
 jumped the track in the Canal yard and was
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