The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-11
RAILROAD TIE.UP STILL WORSE
FIRST ERIE PASSENGERS CONE
IN ny HANDCAR.
Worked Their Way From q Stalled Train
1t Tuxed0-Erie, Pennsylvania and
Lac<awanna UsinE the LehiEh Tracks
Westward-N. Y. Central In Fair Shape.

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Westward-N. Y. Central In Fair Shape.
The railroads having connection with
New York were in little better shape
to handle either freight or passenger trafac
yesterday than they were the day before.
In some respects, the situation was even
worse than on Friday Then the Penn
sylvania and the Reading Jersey Central
lines were not bothered overmuch by the
storm. Yesterday these roads had whole
divisions tied up which were still out Of
commission at midnight.
Philadelphia was cut off from New York
for the greater part of the day till the other
railroads arranged to use the Lehigh VAL
| ley tracks in the worst flooded dist rjct0.
At Easton, Pa, the valley Of the Lehigh
was submerged and the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road was the only one which had clear
tracks. The Erie Lackawanna and Penn.
sylvania were using these. Four big
bridges at Easton-the sixty-foot wide pas
senger bridge, the Lehigh and Hudson's
single track, the Jersey Central's double
track and the Lehigh Valley triple track
were in danger.
The coo foot railroad bridge over the
Delaware at Martins Creek had given
way at noon, going down with a train Of
cars which had been run on the structure
with the hope of saving it. This bridge
connected the Pennsylvania with theBangor
4 Portland. 1t came down in huge sections
and battered the passenger bridge, but
this held solid, though it's railing and light
work underneath suffered. The Jersey
Central's bridge was driven three feet out
Of line by RATS and bridge material.
| At Scranton the Ontario and Western
is tied up, one of it's iron bridges there hav-
ing been swept away The Lackawanna
road has six feet of water across it's tracks
at the Water Gap. Passengers from Buffalo
were being sent on their way over the
Lehigh tracks last night, but no assurance
was given them that they would reach
! their destination within a reasonable time.
The Delaware River was then still rising
at the Water Gap and rain was falling.
Tie lacha"a'r Legan to hear from It's
through trai1 from TIE West last evening"
just about tho lime report reached New
York that the Lehigh Valley bridge over
tie Delaware at Eeston, had been carried
away cutting off the last correction all the
roans had with New York.
| lHe cIel Tram OeSpdlCHeT OIL tIle x0Ck-
awanna sail at II o'clock last night that
the report about the bridge was untrue.
"A through train from the West" he
said, (which left Buffalo at o'clock this
morning. passed over that bridge little
while ago and it's all right"
Early in the day the Philadelphia, Am
boy and Bel, idere divisions of the Penn
sylvania were tied up, owing to flooded
tracks near Trenton. Not train Kos
through between New York and Phil s;
yesterday afternoon. Then, by making
connections with the Lehigh Valley ro6d,
| the service between New York and Phila-
| delphia YVES resumed.
On the Amboy and Belvidere divisions
of the Pennsylvania the tie-up was still
on at an early hour this morning, and no
official of the road was willing to predict
when either division would be opened.
The trouble on the Amboy division was
between Trenton and White Hills, where
the track was covered with about four feet
of water. What the condition of the road
bed beneath was could not be determined.
the al tr trains "e on the Bevidere division
couldn't get by washout and submerged
tracks between Bevidere and Martins
| Creek So not a train on either division
got through all day.
The situation on the Erie was improved,
to the extent that traffic arrangement
was made with the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western, by which people living In
Montclair, the Oranges and near by: who
awanna trains. The New York and New
Jersey division was open as far as Nyack,
| but the Greenwood Lake division was out
of business all day. 1t is doubtful If any
trains will be running over that line to-day.
| Late yesterday afternoon notice was posted
| in the Erie ferryhouse at the foot OF Cham
| beers street announcing that traffic to Waver-
ly and all points west would be handled with
! Lehigh Valley connection, inbound pass
engers landing at the Pennsylvania ferry.
The first through passengers from the
West over the Erie arrived in New York
| at / O'Clock yesterday afternoon, but they
worked their passage in very literal
| sense. There We're ten or twelve Of these
! pioneers, oil men, and they came East on
| Train No. 9, which left Buffalo at $40 on
| Thursday evening. Both the drawing room
| and day coaches were pretty well filled,
about one-quarter of the passengers being
| women.
| All went reasonably we'll with the train
/ until it reached point a little this side OF
Tuxedo about o'clock on Friday morn
ing There it was tagged and Conductor
Doremus was informed that his train would
have to back up to Tuxedo and remain
there until further orders.
This was done and the passengers spent
the forenoon wandering. through the fash
| ionable suburb in driving rain. About
| noon tlleTe was very general CeSUe 10
| eat. Several of the women and many Of
the men, however, found that they had
| only about money enough to take them
to New York and they didn't know about
taking chances with meal prices in Tuxedo.
| The predicament of these passengers
| was made known to Conductor Dorenus,
courtlv official of sixty or whereabouts,
and he jumped into the breach at once.
He got a despatch through to General
| Superintendent Van keIren at Jersey City,
which read somewhat like this:
| Some fifty passengers my crew and my
| self are hungry We have been here since
| O'Clock this morning VIII you feed us?
| Some Of us haven't the price.
| Before long an ar swer came back direct
! ing the agent ct Tuxedo to feed and house
| everybody on the train at the company's
expense, so long as the train was stalled
| there. Arrangements were msdr wr1
| the landlord Of hotel opposite tho Tuxedo
station, and there the passengers were
cared for.
The rest Of the day and Friday night were
spent there waiting for something to turn
| up, Yesterday morning. shortly after
| breakfast Agent Desher, at Tuxedo, an
nounced that he was going to see how far
down the road he could go on hand car.
and il any Of the passengers wanted to 20
along and help drive the car they could
! About dozen volunteered, including
W. A. Murphy, an employee Of the Comp
| troler's office; Julius G. Won ARK, a pub
! Usher, Of 800 Pearl street; c, Webb, Charles
| Cherot C. X Fellows and John Slanahan