The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-02-17

afternoon till Tuesday night. Com
ductor Lanes train south was the last
one to reach the Newtown station at |
about Z o'clock Monday night. Here Ii |
stalled. There were ten male passengers |
bound south on the train and
I've of them thought they would |
prefer stopping at the hotel rath-
er than in the or cara st the depot
all night. Accordingly they telephoned
up for conveyance from the Grand Gem
trail. The team reached the depot all
right and started back for the Street
with its load. When the other side of
Mr. Terrill's it stalled and the sleigh had
to be abandoned. The horses were taken
off and the party in charge of Messrs
shannon and M. j. White started on foot
to pilot their guests to the hotel. It was
frightful trip. l.. j. Ryan of New York
was overcome and put in at Mr. Madi.
gan's for shelter, where he staid all night
| FL. S Sanford, Jr., Of New York was al
so overcome by the cold and when he got
up as far as Mr. Gannon's he made q rush
| for the house and before he could gain
admittance had broken front window
so frenzied was he by the cold. MIR. Gan
non helped him up to the hotel later.
The other members of the party reached
the hotel safety and registered as W. w.
| Norton of Lime kock, Roswell L. Smith
of New York and A. jacobson of New
Haven.
The trainmen made Themselves as COM
| a III - ;v,
the morning a delegation came up Street
and got their breakfast and carried q
liberal supply of sandwiches and coffee
to their comrades and the three passen-
gers, who stuck by the train. The local
freight bound south was the first to get
stalled, just below the station. They
succeeded In getting back on to the
creamery siding. The train was in
charge of Conductor Thorpe and Engi-
neer Ingersoll. Orders were sent them
to couple on with Conductor Lane aDd
Engineer Bowers train when they came
along, but the latter stuck fast in front
of the station and refused to go either
way until Tuesday about noon when suf-
ficient shoveling had been done and the
train was put on the siding with the two
engines coupled on. News kept coming
over the wire that the snow pillow was
? coming down the road as fast as possible
just before three o'clock in the afternoon
it rushed by the Newtown station at g
furious rate, throwing the snow from
the track in a huge spray. 1t was mag
pificent sight, as pushed by two power
full engines it ate its way through the
deep drifts. Not even the big drifts il
Turney's woods impeded its prHgress
but it kept right on south and Is min
utes later was reported as safely arriving
= at Botsford. A few minutes afterwart
T the two engines and the 4 27 train south
9 of Monday night pulled up to the station
z platform. The passengers at the hote
g were notified and on their arrival tn
= train backed up to get good impetu
r before going into the drifts and rushe'
on it's way south. 1t was happy part,
3 that left here, glad to be freed from
9 their snow blockade.
= About o'clock in the evening th
= first train got up from Bridgeport an
g brought back the passengers who wen
e down Monday morning. The mornin
e trains were all late on Wednesday bu
o the company mans ged to get sewers
through, which brought the mails, an
10 on Thursday it was expected to hav
l. everything running as smoothly as ueua
n The tie up on the main line was almost a
o bad as on the Berkshire division, Will
e the Highland and Naugatuck division
y were parslyzed equally as bad, if nc
worse, than was the Berkshire.