Evening journal., 1895-02-12
SN0WBANKS CUT DOWN.
Delaware Railroad Resumes
at the Old Stand.
HEROIC WORK OF ITS TRAIEMBE

AneF uhruahtpH worse Than Those of
the Hemmed-in Passengers who Wore
Obliged 10 subsiat on shortcake
Nicnacks aud "Barefootsd" Coffee.
Trains Running as Scheduled To-day.
After a suspension OF FIVE days, the
longest period Of paralysis in the history
Of the system, the Delaware railroad has
again resumed operations and ia running
It's trains. to the relief and great accom-
mediation Of the ople OF Delaware,
almost on schedule time The tracks
have been cleared, all the nowbound
trains have been released and the engines
are being repaired and frightened up to
be fresh for the next snow
First the 05 Norfolk express train.
north bound, came all the way up, arriving
IN Wilmington only an hour and half
late. Then the evening accommodation,
due to arrive hers from the Delaware
railroad at 90, reached the city about
y o'clock She was followed by anumber
OF engines, some damaged and others all
ready FOR service
Then the schedule was quickly taken
up again The "owl" train, or midnight
express for Norfolk and the Delaware
road was made up and Btartsd out on
time. Six minutes later the acoommo
dation rain service to New Castle was
resumed. All along the line e general
hustle was ordered during the night to
restore the annulled trains as soon as
daylight came
This morning the efforts wers crowned
with success as the night express from
Norfolk and the principal towns along
the Delaware road arrived only . few
minutes late and the New Castle train
reached here on time Advices from the
other trains on the move were to the
effect that they were running on good
time and that the mails and important
expressage were being distributed along
the line which had been iLolated from the
rest OF the world for FIVE days.
No Branch Road Trains.
lt was definitely announced at the rail.
road station here that there was no
prospect of operating any Of the branch
roads this week. Some of them are
covered with fifteen feet banks OF snow
and practically all Of this will have to be
dug out and csrted away on gondola cars
The hotels and private boarding houses
are well flled with Peninsula guests.
who bad been up to Philadelphia ana this
city doing their Saturday shopping or
Winter visiting
At the Merritt Houae distinguished
guest is Captain Ed Roberts, OF Easton,
remarkable man and typical South
erner Captain ROBERTS was one OF the
bravest Of Confederate commandants
during the late war and still wears the
Dixlne imperial and flowing muatsche,
with the customary white hat. Hs is
six feet three inches tall and weighs over
200 pounds
storm-bound Passengers Reach VIII
mington.
On the train reaching this city at s As
last evening from the Delaware railroad,
number of storm stayed passengers
arrived here and hurried to their homes
One Of these unfortunates was John A
Booker, of this city, travelling salesman
for the wholesale grocery house OF Harvey
\ Sisler, who relates thrilling story Of
the hardships endured by tha trRinmen
and passengers during the fifty two
hours In which they were practically
hemmed in by nowbanks and unabls to
leave the train except at the imminent
peril of being frozen.
For ffty-two hours, from ii 30 Friday
morning, when the train pulled out OF
Wilmington with three locomotives on
the lead, the passengers got nothing to
eat except shortcake sandwiches, bare.
footed coffee and soda crackers, a solid but
miserRbly monotonous subsistence. Part
Of the time, too, they were almost
smoked out OF the car by the soft coal
that had TO be burned when the hard
coal gave out and all Friday night the
Thermometers Ia the car registered 40
degrees and the people had to move
about in misery.
The few passengers who ventursd to
Mt. Pleasant were we'll cared for by
Station Agent David Colpetts. Merchant
Frank ElIason and Farmer Thomas
Clayton who accommodated twelve Of the
unfortunatss who were thus relieved
from their sufferlngs.
The Unfortunate 'sB' Passen gers.
Mr.. Booker obtained the following
complete roster OF the passengers:
j. d Williamson and family, wife and
three daughters) Salisbury. Nd
r. B. Merritt, wife and child, Warwick,
Md. (Mr Merritt walked nine miles to
his home
s. f. Ringgold, Riverton, N. ]. (Busi !
Atrn lAt NNNhb cllnCbs NOW L0ih
David Collins, lumber buyer, No. 224
South Charles street. BaltimoIe.l
Captain Luther Phillips, merchant,
Hoopersville, Nd.
l. T. y Brown. Princess Anne, Md
DR.. L A II Bishop, Dover
John A. Booker. Wilmington
Lawyer r. d. Hynson, Chestertown
Nd.
Mari on DeKalb Smith, state comp
troller, Chestertown, Md
E. B. T. Springer, clerk Of the state
Senate.
Captain windsor, Somerset county,
Md
Thomas b, Carpenter, Lewes, Del.
Peter Chambers, Lewes.
Q, P. Tull, Philadelphia
J. ID. Flurer, Princess Anne
w. A Wilson, Princess Anne
Captain John Smith, Princess Anne.
N. p. Clark. wife and four children,
Genoa, o. sMr. Clark was an immigrant
about to tettle on the Eastern Shore
s E Sullivan, Newburn, N. @.
Rev o. a. Murphy, Fairmount, Md.
A. Walls, Philadelphia.
Representative Frederick Pyle and Coal
Oh Inspector Alton c. Pyle, Wilmington.