New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-28
TRAINS BADLY BLOCKED.
THE CENTRAL EMBARGO PARTIALLY
RAISED.
GREAT EFFORTS TO RENEW TRAFFIC. ON MANY
ROADS RAISING THE BLOCKADE NEAR ALBANY
-sToRM-BoUND PASSENGERS LEAVING THE
CIIY-.pELAY OLE LIE MAILs-REMINIs-

ROADS RAISING THE BLOCKADE NEAR ALBANY
STORM BOUND PASSENGERS LEAVING THE
CiTY--DELAY OF THE MAILs-REMINIs-
CENCEs OF OTHER HEAVY WINTERS.
" When this windstorm is over we shall be able
to clear our tracks and again on schedule
time With the wind blowing the snow into the
cuts as fast as or faster than we can shovel it
out is impossible to keep the tracks clear. In
the meantime we are doing our best to prevent
blockades and keep trains moving but with
sxty-mne gale on our hands it is difficult un-
dertaking'
This is the substance of the situation a3 gwen
by many railroad managers and superintendents
yesterday. The gale which had prevailed for the
last forty-eight hours and had been accompanied
i'll many places with constant snow-storms, had
drfted and banked up the upon the tracks
and filled up the cuts and valleys TO a depth not
experienced in many years. 1t extended over
wide expanse of territory and while the New-York
Central and Hudson River Railroad had the most
serious experience. in being subjected TO blockade
the like of which has been. unknown
to nine.tenths of modern railroad men'
York has wholly escaped. The public as well as
the railway companies have reason to be thankful
that although the patience of travellers ana rall-
road officials alike has been sorey tried, no ac-
cidcnts worth mentioning have resulted from the
tcnton upon blockadcd tracks arc reported.
TUE BIG DRIFT YIELDS AT LAST
The big snow-drift on the NewYorll Central
Railroad, five miles west of Albany, which with
stood the strenuous and well-directed Efforts OF
powerful locomotives and huge snow-plougbs for
twelve or fifteen hours, succumbed to superior
power and skill at a. IN. yesterday. At leaSb
the tracks sufficiently cleared to permit the
snow-bound Vestibule and Western through eX-
press trains to pass These trains arrived at the
Grand Central station at and 10 o'clock re-
spcctivey yesterday morning, each about twelve
hours behind time. But it took until II a. m
yesterday to get the four tracks clear OF snow IOf
general business.
We have captured the Storm" said General
Superintendent j. VI. Toucey yesterday; put me
immense quantity of snow, and the @ hlgh wlnu YIN,
ting all the passenger trains moving, ana ne
licve that the trouble is practically over we
began sending all our trains out this morning
again as usual. The trains arriving are all more
or less behind time, however.
"This blockade is nothing to the blockade OF
1857. For three days then the road between
thirto,n locomotives working to clear mile or
two of space, and were obliged to abandon them;
Just see the smollcstaclls of some Of them and it
took us until noon the next day to dig them OUT.
One train lay helpless in the cut at Fort Wash
"Yesr said Assistant Passenger Agent Rich
ards " 7 remember about that. The train stuck
There envclOpcd in snow, all one Sunday. and
provisions for the passengers and fuel 70 keep
them from freezing to death were hauId ottn up 10
The train ont was given up. and on Monday the
passengers were brought to the city IN slelghs
All the paSSenGcrs who were prevented from
going ont on Thursday night got off on the trains
yesterday morning. which consequently went OUT
crowded.
LITTLE IMPROVEMENT on THE wrsT SHORE.
General Manager J. D. Laing, of the West Shore
road, said yesterday that he had seen little I'M
movement in the condition of things in the pre-
yious twcntv-four hours. I'VE have experienced
no actual blockade" said he. "but our trains
havc. been seriously delayed At IIaverstraw and
/ Rotterdam Junction trains coming to New York
ran into snow-drfts last night Fortunately,
only one track was covered in either case. so
that ran another train on the unimpeded track
transferred the passengers and brought them here
Then we dug out the empty trains and cleared
the way. Three Of our express trains coming TO
Ncw-YOrlS have been delayed. ! have lust re-
crived dispatch from our superintendent OF the
Buffalo DiviSion-which extends from Buiialo to
Ttca-that matters on that division are worse
than yesterday. regular blizzard is in progress
there As soon as II stops blowing with the
facilities at hand. we shall soon clear the road
and run aran as usual"
On the Eric road the through passenger trains,
both east and west. were all from three TO six or
scvcn hours late and freight business was entirely
blocked on the eastern end Of the road. Heavy
drifts impedod the trains at I.acllawaVcn and at
IIankins With the strong wind and long-con-
tinucd nnowfall the cuts on the Delaware Di-
vision between Port Jervis and SusNuchanna
gave much trouble Assistant General Manager
j W. raylor said that the road nj LacllawaXcn
was pretty well cleared. hut at Ilankins it had
been slow work At the eastern end Of the New
York Pennsylvania and Ohio road. between Mead
willie and Salamanca. there were also deep snow
drifts. Passenger trains running with two loco
motives were pushing slowly through these drifts
Some freight trains were being run by reducing
them to fifteen twenty cars each. Mr.. Taylor
said that nothing approaching the present condi-
tion Of the road had been known Tor twenty-five
years
The mill, trains on the Erie road were ten hours
late Yesterday, and two milk trains OF twenty
! cars each on the Ncw-York Susquehanna ana
/ al I1a1,nI Ht-c
| Mddletown. A long CONTINUANCE OF me storm
| Vu = is "r"dicted, in making milk scarce
article in New-Yorls.
! TIE STATE eF THINGS on OTHER LINES.
The trains on the New-York, New-llaven and
Hartford Railroad were generally on time yes
tcrdav. A blockade on the Housatonic road
stopped travel yesterday between Pittsfeld and
Great Harrington but the road was cleared and
have began running again Between Ashley Falls
and Sheffield however, great difficulty has been
experienced in clearing the track ouo u TaS w. eH
10 get through. On the Shore Line DIVISION there
was also much delay Yesterday owing To the heaNy
snowfall From Boston trains were Tour or hVe
NON On the Pennsylvania road the local and Phila-
dephia trains were generally on tlniT ouO sa ,ratu1
hours behind time. The fall OF snow III tlc % h%lc-
| chanv mountains is said to have been the heaviest
A"T Tie delaware Iacl;awanna and Western road
has suffered similar delays. Its morning, trains
from Buffalo and Bnghamton yesterday dld s noC
arrive until late in the afternoon: Trouble rom
snow was also reported on the Bloomsbury Di-
vision. - :; ~
The trains on the jersey Central came IN on
time.
MAILS GREATLY DELAYED.
The mails due at this city on Thursday hlgho
and ycaterlay morning were so delayed ana SO
uncertain in their arrival that the officials hau
difficulty in tracing the trains. The New orA
and Dunliirk" mails which means those Dy 'he
Erie route did not arrive at all ana tine mails pS
the Ncw.Yorl Central and Pennsylvania routes
,rono dis,roc,irglv uncertain. The Pennsylvania
mail dme at 7 30 n. IN. on Thursday arrived yes
terrIay The New-York Central mails due at h:1o,
500 and D. m Friday, arrived respe9I,ivcS ~ ~ a.
II :O5 7 and ? 80 a. m YESTERDAY Inc inalls a
dne yesterday morning were received yesterday