The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-28

minutes to ar hour and "a half late, and
after o'clock yesterday morning the
train shed, waiting room and every
section Of the depot We're barren of
luxury, free from anything that would
appeal to the usual excitement of rail-
road life.
Outside the station huge drifts of the
white fleece piled up for yards around,
and many people made fruitless at
tempts to reach hotels during the eve
ming. In front of the depot yesterday
morning, a drift from ten to twelve
feet high was piled up, and until a late
hour yesterday afternoon, it was not
cleared away. All sides of the sta
ton were heaped with snow, and the
train shed looked like a huge noun
tain, with the stalled freight and pas
senger cars as houses.
Yesterday morning the section men
We're out in full force, but the COM
bined efforts of men all along the line
were unable to get ahead Of the fall Of
snow and it was o'clock before any
thing looking like the headlight on an
engine showed up The effects Of the
storm became apparent to Worcester
people when it became known that the
owl had been stalled in East Brook
field, through the accident which befell
a couple of freight trains. With the
Of the Owl, and the general delay Incl
dent to such a program, traffic came to
standstill, and until the train bringing
the Boston papers showed up, every
thing was quiet at the depot.
The newspaper train, with two bag
gage cars, pulled by a single engine,
puffed its way slowly into the train
shed at 5.21 O'Clock, one hour and sew
enteen minutes late, and Worcester is
as far as the train went. Boston pa
pers were the only outside papers en-
tering the city, and on the local end,
The only paper to successfully reach the
outside world was The Spy. New York
Iapers were stalled on the trains in
Springfield
The Owl train, due to leave Worces-
Ter at o'clock, was stalled in Meri-
ueu Ct, where it came to grief after
making tremendous struggle to make
,he trip The driver Of the big engine
broke under the strains to which it was
SuoJected and the game was up. Early
Oh the morning the effect of the storm
became apparent all over the various
mes, and there were general orders is
Nueu TO discontinue all local trains.
shortly after daylight, the Wrecking
.I0" OF the Boston and Albany road
ds got together, and a start was made
Tor East Brookfeld, but very little pro-
- eSS was made. Failure to make up
me train in the regular order brought
1t TO grief just little west Of the Graf
ION street crossing, and the outfit was
8 lacked into the freight yard to make a
.tesh start. With a big dOuble-decker,
auls time, the engineers put every en-
TIEE of their steam horses at work,
oul the only effort was the throwing
rom the rail of the snow pillow.
After all this trouble. there was a
n'eSsage received from Springfield that
=" Wrecker from that city had reached
,te Brookheld scene, and so attention
~ 'ne section men was turned toward
rie Boston end of the line. A snow
a.oW was placed in readiness, and with
ttut particular incident, it made a trip
~ south birmingham. Drifts of vary
tE heights We're encountered all along
'"e me, and the progress was slow.
between Worcester and North Graf
iDn lhere We're some huge drifts, these
ing practically the worst along the
%SS,ern division of the line. Just out
vi the city limits trouble was en-
"untered in the deep cut, where drifts
aching to the roofs of the cars We're
uqhd. The place is walled in on
ler side by huge boulders, and drifts
WY more than a mile in length We're