The evening times., 1899-02-16
EXPERIENCES IN THE
State OF MARYLAND
Snowbound Regulars Leave
Cumberland.
Bad Behavior of Some of the Men
Men Wh0 Were Drinking.
Delay of Mails Destined for Cumber-
Iand-A SehOo1boy,S Perii-A
Priests Experience.

Cumberland Md, Feb. 16.-The TIVE fth
United States Regular Infantry, snow
bound in Cumberland for nearly two days,
got away yesterday morning in three sec
tioIs. They were held up a while at Mar
tinsburg but later left there eastward.
The route to Manila is from New York
via the SueZ Canal. Colonel Smith praised
the hotels here, the Queen City having
served 500 hot meals in the dining room
and the Windsor S2I. The soldiers were
scattered through the city, and consid-
erable trouble was attendant upon getting
them together to leave Cumberland. Half
a dozen. who had imbibed TOO freely, were
left They are not only fearful they viii
miss Manila. but of results that may fol-
low their failure to take the train. Two
OF the soldiers fought in saloon, one
drawing a revolver which WAS knocked
from has hand. The offender was defiant
and only surrendered after the guards had
loaded their Krag-Jorgensens to fire. An
other soldier was stabbed in the leg in
saloon in Shantytown, and was much
weakened from the loss of blood. DR.. ".
W. Wiley dressed the wound. The man
refused TO tell where the stabbing occur
red.
No Baltimore Mails.
No trains from the East have yet reach
ed Cumberland by the Baltimore and Oaio
Railroad. No Baltimore papers or mails
have arrived since Monday. Trains are
being dispatched east, hut none except To-
cal accommodations are arriving. Trains
Nos. :. - and l were abandoned east of
Cumberland yesterday, but a No. >. ca:1
Tying mail and passengers TO Pittsburg,
was made up here. Train No. 10 went
east early yesterday morning. followed by
No. s. carrying eastbound passengers
snowed-up in Cumberland: the three mill
taTy trains, and train No. 8.
The Baltimore and Ohio is reported short
of engine coal al Pittsburg. and purchased
250 carloads of the West Virginia product
Two hundred shovelers were taken out
of Cumberland yesterday morning. About
a thousand are employed altogether They
are well paid.
Immense volumes of snow cover the
mountains and should the thaw be sud
den. unusually high waters are feared.
There is considerable thawing today. The
mercury was down 10 zero early yesterday
morning al at points up the river and 10
degrees below.
4 Snowbound Corpse.
David Beall, aged twenty-eighr years.
son of Daniel BeaIl living in the mountain,
one mile west of Wellersburg and nine
miles -orth Of Cumberland was found dead
i'm bed Tuesday morning lying face Gown
ward. He subject TO epilepsy. The
Beall family reaches the open country by
means of a mountain path. which was
blocked by snow. After much effort a
member of the family reached neighbors
several miles distant and informed them OF
the situation. 4 consultation was held
and others being summoned. after working
with shovels until late last night, a way
leading from the main road TO the Beal
road was opened so that a coffin for the
snow bound corps could be taken to The
house. The coffin was bought in Cumber-
land yesterday morning.
4 schooIboy's Peril.
Michael Ready brick molder al Mount
Savage. was looking for his COW near thai
place Monday evening, when he saw a hand
sticking out of the snow. He brushed the
snow aside and discovered Richard Johns
| Schoolboy. aged eleven years, who was
| overcome by the cold while on his way
home The lad is a son of Richard Johns
ST.. who is employed at the Mount Savage
brickyaTd and lives on the mountain hall
mile from the town. The boy is in d
serious condition. II is feared his arms and
ears may have TO be amputated.
Priests Experience.
Rev f A B. Wunnenberg. pastor of ST.
Peters Catholic Church. Oakland, on Mon
day February g. went 10 Hoyes, Garrett
county, seventeen miles distant in Response
TO a sick call He was showed in, and
Tuesday evening he came TO Cumberland
over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad via
Confluence. expecting to reach Oakland in
the night, but there was no train. Father
Wunnenberg travelled over $50 miles TO get