The sun., 1888-01-28
-BELEAGUERED TRAINS
NEW YORK STATE NOT PET OPEN TO
TRAVEL BIZ Rail.

NEW YORK STATE NOT YET OPEN TO
TRAVEL BIZ Raj.
Tne Central Tracks Pretty Clear Erie,s
Branches Bisck kadeA-TreneuSous Drifts
In the Mohawk vaiiey-Lit,ie OF Ne
Freieht Meved-NIissinG MIA TRAINS
The Tracks In Maine, New Hanpshire,
verasat, aad Western Nassaehusetts
showed Under-Twe Fatal Csnisiess
Tho incoming trains on the New York and
Hudson River Railroad which were stuck In
the snowbanks on Thursday. all the way be-
tween Peekskill and Schenectady, got into tho
Grand Central depot at various hours yester-
day morning. The express trains which were
duo at z, TX, and $40 O'Clock Thursday night
arrived at 1. z, and 10 A. N. yesterday. The
passengers on these trains reported . rather
lively experience. An express messenger on
the train which got in at 10 A. N. told Sun
reporter that when tho trains stopped in the
big drift i've miles west Of Albany the wheels
froze fast to the tracks. and that even when the
trains got to going again the flying ice and
snow clogfed tho machinery Of the
engines so that any but slow pro-
gress was impossible. In seme cases
passengers suffered severely from cold. Most
OF the trains were blocked at or verT near rail-
goodly number OF passengers on these latter
trains, who got tired Of waiting in the trains
and started out to find q station or farm
house. were obliged to turn back to the trains,
with frozen ears and noses.
Tho morning trains over tho road. duo at the
Grand Central depot at 6:45. Z. and tx o'clock.
got In nine hours late apiece. All express
trains were despatched from the Grand Con-
t@ral @ depot as near schedule time as possthle:
cam. into ths dePes aeoas @ midnisS., 'A'f III 81"
press due at Sh P. N. was reported three b. ..s
M Il ss ass sFfES ss.
ee.s. % o ns wsTe ssd ,! ns
ooa s af at ssis nsS Ss loas ns bsSiSd
5 trains sSh ssS SsssS = Ths srs
On tho West Shore road strenuous efforts
i iGssl trains i, ss isr hos.h ss kinsstos are q
aGar s2as.I i s soef g
armsd With grain shove i. they 7 rslisvsd the he
dSss ons sse ses oss.d 9a 70 Hb.n O'clock
snS DAY y %oe ssSF sna on bs o
seven car loads Of live stock. tho only freight
tnoSyins mere cNmpeteshly shy sn1Tsd under at Rot
y6bs
Rsrd tss ests Sf scs Wese as,ea alive
M Il. ,. 81
140 miles, where the snow piles up "A many
places ss even ". With t5s car wIRdows: The p:
We t K G yesssPda8 ed sne The Hsain trsn
,do!ss "a A. Eris road The Chicago express. due a.
the road. Two eneines were necessary to drag
tn ou! S. i:rs s nha gss' das Il eg
s IN 6s on ai %e
The long delay had made every one hungry.
est Esi
WORK ana the road was Cleared. siz " car i loads %
n WSEs
deed IN t2sa sss SRsa d.
Tier there sss bssn 19 such eoSk.d. o1 ths Es
t6e branch road and 10 trains srs running % on
any pi tbSm. The snow les afteen feet deep
oah GH fhs f1S isapd "a. branch which runs from
Milk trains on all the roads centring In this
turn up .. all The trains on The i Eris ' road aS
were ten hours late yesterday. and two milk
trains on the New York, susquehanna and
Western Of twenty cars each are said to be
spowed Up near Middletown.., A large part OF
the citys milk comes over the tracks OF the
West Wst,I shSrs Reipg received at Kingston from
roads. These roads did not attempt to run
Sven passSnRer trains yesterday, and accord.
milk In this city.
THE ICE IN LONG LELAND SOUND.
,OrTY ISLAND. Jan. T.-There Is NO material
change IN the condition of the Ice in the Sound
here. The tug George A Dean. before report
guilty N forcing her way through the masseS OF
lSo The tug Narragensott arrived here from
Eew York to-day with two barges in tow for
Pr9yidenSs: and also passed oat into open
ths wind 70 moderate, No sailing vessels have
attempted TO move: The tugs Robert Lockhart
and b. A. Packer from Providence With eight
barEss snehored here ct nightfalL The. three:
II ths as mentionsd Yesterday fs still
ioEt having been made to sxtricate her. Tho
schooner y. L Eaton. for Boston. after much
trouble. was towed here. An unknown three
masted schooner has been OF Throgg's Neck
lOf 60Von hOur8 In tow UnRhla Ia