Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-02-11
EXPERIENCE IN THE STORM.
Nine Hours In the Snow ovor the A. 4 n.
Short Line.


a passenger on the A. 81 b. s. Road re-
lates his experience TO Herald repor-
ter as follows: Encased in ice, not I'M
like steaming ice-bergs, Engines / and
5, OF the Annapolis and Baltimore Short
Line, pulled into Camden Station at
s.l5 O'Clock Saturday night,
Attached to them were two passenger
coaches containing 40 dredgers who had
been wrecked in the Chesapeake on
Thursday night, together with ladies.
children and crew of Is men. in charge
of Master Mechanic James T.. Seward
and Raggage Master T.. II. I.ossburg.
Their eNpnence was thrilling and one
long to be remembered.
When the train left Annapolis at 10. so
O'Clock Saturday morning it was feared
that heavy snowdrifts would he encoun-
tered, and In order To avert any delay
crew of 10 men, armed with shovels,
We're taken along. They were: Joseph,
Edward and Thomas Iayman, Morris
Fades, benjamin Lockyer, Henry Lamb
Alvin Oaksmith, Charles Stinchcomb,
Arthur Duval, Charles Weitzel, Gil
bert Io1burn, Benson Watts, Robert
Wallace, Charles Foster, Edward Saw
yer, Sr., and Charles Sawyer, Jr. The
story of the trip is best told in the words
of Master Mechanic Seward. He said /:
~ was up all night preparing the en-
gines for the trip. / anticipated trouble
aud found it before / left, with frozen
water pipes, which l had to thaw out be-
fore | could get water for the boilers.
This accomplished, we left Annapolis,
at 1880 a. m. We steamed away about
a mile and half, where We encountered
deavy drifts and became stalled. 1t re-
quired 20 minutes to shovel our way
through. Two miles further on, at
Joyce's we struck another heavy drift.
Three-quarters of an hour was required
to clear the way. A similar experience
was had at Pasadena, four miles furth-
er on. One hour was taken up in max
ing our way through drift at Elvaton.
AT Marley Station, IA miles from An
napolis, we struck the hardest point in
the trip.
''By this time the boys were half
frozen and hardly able to grasp ashovel.
We endeav0red to force our way through
the huge pile of snow, which resulted
in breaking the headlight and window
panes of the cab and baggage car. At
the same time the engineman and fire.
man were almost smothered with the
rush of SNOW. 1t required an hour and
a-half to make the way clear. At
Cromwell's, three miles further, we
made drift of 700 feet in length, 6 feet
deep. We made repeated efforts to
plough our " ay through, but they were
Intellectual, and it required three and a.
half hours to shovel our way clear. We
easily made Shipley's and Linthlcum s,
and at Humphreys the passengers, who
had eaten nothing since o'clock, made
an onslaught on the restaurants and
| grocery shops in search of sandwiches.
In most cases they Gould only get
| cheese and crackers. With this they
were more than well pleased, and the
meacer supply obtainable soon vanished.
At Patapsco, where the wind has a clear
| sweep o. 10 miles, we met the heaviest
| fall of snow. also met Engine No.
13, in charge of Engineer Cuddy. On
| the relief train was General sanageI
! G. A. Coombs and Secretary and Treas
| uTer l.. A. Burck, together with crew
of 10 men, who assist ed us in shovelling
our way out of the snow bank, and after
making our way through 500 feet OF
snow, we got away and made our wa,
| to the city. When our people arrived
they were half famished and ne,rly
| prostrated.
II would not like to repeat the jour.
ney for considerable amount, and il
will be long time before l shall forget
my experience of those nine hours. ]
am feeling pretty good now, only
| tired, -