The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-29
$50 ARE sNowBouND.
sreat Storm causes Unprecedented
Tisup in Northern New York.

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Tieup in Northern New York.
Utita. N. ". Jan. 2T-The great snow
storm that ragged over northern New
York yesterday. blocking tine Rome,
Matertown and Oedensburg division OF
b New York Central railroad so that
four passenger trains and seven freight
trains were Imprisoned in the snow
drifts near Lacona all day, abated for
awhile last night.
The weather was calm Just long
enough to enable q half dozen huge
snow plows, propelled by thirty-two
engines. to open a way for the belated
passenger trains, and then the snow
pillow began with renewed vigor and
continued all through the day.
The $50 passengers, who experienced
all sorts of hardships while prisoners
of the storm king, reached their destin-
atoms about twenty-four hours behind
time. The stories of the blockade are
that h tieup surpassed anything ever
seen before In this part OF the country.
Anywhere along the route. say the
passengers. 1t Is possible to reach the
huge drifts from the car windows. and
in nan places the banks through
which cuts a been made lower high
above the tops Of the coaches.
Plows Kept Way Open.
The storm today threatened to place.
the same stretch Of road in a predica-
tnent like that OF yesterday, bot the.
plows and flanges were right, on the
spot, and by constant work the army
of laborers has been able to forestall n
repetition. Trains are reaching Utica
over this division considerably behind,
time.
All of the seven freight trains that
were stalled yesterday are still on
snowbound sidings along the route, II
no effort is being made at present to,
release them. All energy is being spent
on the passenger traffic. 1t was said,
at the division superintendent office
here tonight that the loss from freight
delay would probably be great, mas,
much as considerable perishable stuff
is undoubtedly in the stalled cars.
No effort viii be made to take az
freight train over the division until
tomorrow, and even then it may be-
out of the question if the present storm
does not subside.
Mr.. Monroe, proprietor of the Central
hotel at Lacona, told of the arrival at
his place of the famished passengers.
from out the snow drifts.
Crying for Food.
Crying that they We're starved and
fairly yelling for food" said he, ESQ
passengers from the stalled trains,
raided my hotel last night. The people,
We're the hungriest lot I have ever
seen. In the mad rush for the dining
room, tables and chairs were over
q II GAAAA AllJ ~ AkAA XII liz
could do to keep the famished passen-
gers from running the place.
Il insisted that the women and children
should be first fed. We took care of all
away hungry. The local station agent
paid for food for several women who We're
p%enniless.'.
Curtiss ]. Wright of Utica and c. B.
Fill of Boston, travelling men. said:
We were passengers on the first of the.
4 cfa1l He'd trains and tho nna naoraSf Mant,c.#
vile. Our engine got stuck in the drifts at
Pierrepont Manor cut, one-haif mile from
Evansville. The snow was seven to twelve
feet deep. but the great Geld and wind
had packed it SO hard that a number off
passengers walked over the drifts to-
Mannsville, Later teams were sent to our
train to bring in passengers.
"Mannsville. has about two hundred pop-i
ulation. and was not prepared to feed the,
horde of hungry men and women. This!
train crew kept the trains warm, so that,
there was little suffering from cold dur;
ing the night. In a very short time
Evansville was eaten out, and we could
get nothing, more until we reached La
coma. The people did everything posi-
be to make US comfortable, but the TWEEN
ty-four hours tie-up is an experience few
of US will ever forget"
Took Food on s~nowshoes.
To the trains farthest away food was
taken by men on snowshoes, whs madei
their way over snow from five to thirty
feet deep along the railroad tracks. This
condition prevails all the way from Utica
to Watertown.
Mr.. and Mrs. KratZ, newly welded andt
EN- route from Watertown to New York
spent their wedding night on stalled train
No. s. The merry passengers msde things
Interesting for them.
Harry Monroe Of Lacona was to have.
been present in New York last night to
mary Miss Emily Schneider Of Central
Park West. He was unable to leave La
coma until 10 o'clock last night.
Many passengers had noses and earsl
frozen while going from their trains to
Mannsvile in the night. Tie train
crews are exhausted from continuous
night and day work in the severe cold.
Three hours were required for a double-i
header ttwo engines) three-coach traini
to make the distance of twenty-nine miles,
from Camden to Lacona. a1
Camden reports that the coal supply of
the local dealers is exhausted, and thatl
the place is threatened with a coal FAM
inc.
Owing to the blockade twenty-eighti
passengers en- route from Syracuse toll
WATERFOWL on their arrival at R.cflandI
were compelled to go to Utica and then,
back by the Black River road, thus tray-i
cling $50 miles to traverse 80 miles OIL
railway. y
Intense in the North.
st. Faul. Mimi, Jan. 25.-Fiftyetwo de.
grees below zero at Winnipeg, AZ at Du-I
luth, Is at New Richmond and SO at ST.
Paul, are reported.
Seven persons were frozen to death
and three score are in the hospitals. Train
loads of sheep, cattle and horses were
frozen to death and brought from the:
northwest to ST. Paul. Traffic is greatly
delayed and many trains are abandoned.
Traffic Ia DELAYED.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 25.-The past;
twenty-four hours has been the coldestl
of the winter. The mercury reached Id
below, and the maximum was I below.
Cold weather is general over Nebraska|
and western Iowa. accompanied by al
bitter north wind which made pedes-l
trianism difficult. Transportation isl!
generally affected by the weather.
street car and railroad traffic being
badly delayed.
EN aN NaNU