The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-16
STORM TROUBLES OVER.
The Railroads aud Highways are Again
In Use.

/ IN USE
! With the exception Of tae Lehigh Valley
lines, all passenger trains on the steam nail.
roads have been running close 20 their
schedules since yesterday, and the freight
and coal train service was resumed this
morning. The Lehigh Valley company
was still battling to-day with the com.
pact snow on the branch between this town
and Barry's Junction and between the lstter
point and Mahanoy City, via the short line
The west bound track was open to-day from
this place to Barry's, and both tracks wer.
open to Deano, via the upper branch. The
short route was as etioctually blocked TODAY
as it was on Tuesday. The snow in the Elm.
wood and High Point cuts is thirty feet high
The management Of the Lakeside Electric
Railway did excellent work yesterday and
last night succeeded in getting cars from
Mahanoy City to the p. & X. station In town
| The line was opened TO Main street this after.
/ noon.
The Kelley Run aud West Shenandoah
collieries were idle to-day on account of
having no empty cars on hand
The expense put upon the railroad com
panies by the blizzard may be conjectured to
some extent when it is considered that on
the Shamokin division Of the p. & r. Rail
way, alone. $500 extra men were employed
to shovel snow from the tracks Nearly all
the male residents Of Colorado and
vicinity were in the service
A half dozen sleepy, angry men walked to
town this morning from Barry's Junction
after spending last night there in a snow
hound passenger train. Among them were
y. j. Coakley, secretary Of the Borough
Council, returning from a business trip to
a N.rE Dot a.
Tough from the 2ist Inf, T. S. A., located at
Plattsburg, n. Y, and two drummers. The
train left New York City at p. m. yesterday
and at lO;l5 p. m. got as far as Barry's June
ton, making the trip from Delano over the
upper branch. The train could not pass
Barry's Oh account Of the drifts, and the
fourteen passengers on board made them.
selves rs comfortable as the circumstances
would permit for the night At eight o'clock
this morning half dozen Of them concluded
to walk to town. The others remained with
the train until it got through. Among them
were several soldiers on furloughs from
Plattsburg.
| A l.. V. r. R. engine with two passenger
coaches arrived here at nine O'Clock last
night and, in proceeding eastward got caught
in drift at the red bridge. She did not get
through until this morning.
David Morris, coal hauler. went to Lambs
colliery at Turkey Run this morning for a
load OF coal and, upon the return trip, got
caught in drift. Several men engaged in
opening the borough road helped him out
| John II. Reese, of town, who is employed
as night watchman at the Park collierv.
Trenton, arrived home this morning for the
/ hrst time since Sunday night, having been
snow bound at the collIery.
Teams are now able to travel all roads be-
tween this town and the Catawissa Valley.
Some of the roads are still in very bad con
dition and it is difficult to travel them.
! Packer collieries Nos. s. 3 and 2 resumed
/ operations this morning, having a supply of
empty cars on hand. No. worked half a
day. The men received orders to work again
tomorrow, as the company expects to be
supplied with empty cars tonight
The VIM. Penn colliery will resume opera
tions and ship coal tomorrow, the Pennsyl-
vania r. r. branch to the colliery being now
open.
The P. & R. Railway Company has a force
of one hundred men clearing the branch
road from St. Nicholas to the Ellangowan
colliery this morning. In some places the
tracks were covered by ten feet of snow.
! The p & R. crew that was showed in at
! point below Tamanend, on the Catawissa
branch, reached the Quakake station last
night after suffering severely for 5s hours.
Some of the men had to be carried from the
caboose into the station, so exhausted had
they become from cold and hunger.
Dav Houser, the l.. V. engineer who was
| injured Tuesday night at the Elmwood cut
while engines were trying to force through
the drift, is still at Lewis hotel in Mahanoy
] fV.a
left side is fractured and the bruises about
his back and shoulders make him helpless.
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