The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-01-28
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Great Storm Causes Unprecedented
Tisup in Northern New York.

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Great Storm Causes Unprecedented
Tisup in Northern New York.
Utiaa, N. Y, Jan. 2T-The great snow
torn that ragged over northern New
FORK yesterday. blocking the Rome.
Watertown and Ogdensburg division of
the New York Central railroad so that
fouG passenger trains and seven freight
trains were imprisoned in the snow
drifts neal Lacoua.all day, abated for
awhile last night.
The weather WAS calm just long
enough to enable a half dozen huge
snow plows, propelled by thirty-two
engines, to open a way for the belated
passenger trains, and then the snow
plow 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-
ations abou twenty-four hours behind
time. The stories of the blockade are
that the tieup surpassed anything ever
seen before in this part of the country.
Anywhere along the route, say the
passengers. it is possible to reach the
huge drifts from the car windows, and
in many places the banks through
which cuts ave been made tower high
~N~ NtAN SSpA ~ AaS oh @
Plows Kept Way Open.
The storm today threatened to place
the same stretch of road in Il predica-
ment like that of yesterday, but the
plows and tlanges were right o. the
spot. and by constant work the army
of laborers has been able to forestall IL
repetition. Trains are reaching Utica
over this division considerably behind
time.
All nf t1n W., -, 81, fr1i ,,,a ~, .
were stalled Yesterday are still on
snoWbound sidings along the route, ana
no effort is being made at present to
release them. All energy is being spent
on he passenger traffic. 1t was said
at the division superintendent's 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 will be made to take a
freight train over the division until
tomorrow, n ever then it may be
u of the question if the present storm
does not subside.
Mr.. Monroe, proprietor of the Central
hotel at Tacoma, 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 n
fairly yelling for food" said he, .'250
passengers from the stalled trains
raided my hotel last night. The people
We're the hungriest lot I have ever
seen. In the mad III for the lining
room, tables n chairs We're over
turned, and my employees had all they
could do to keep the famished passsen-
gers from running the place.
Il insisted that the womsn aud children
should be first fed. We took care of all
We could, but many We're obliged to go
away hungry. The local station agent
paid for food for several women who were
penniless."
Curtlss ]. Wright of Utica and c. b.
Hill OF Boston, travelling men. said:
I'VE were passengers on the first of the
Ltalled trains and the one nearest MannS-
Willie. Our engine got stuck in the drifts at
Pierrepont Manor cut, one-half mile from
Mannsyillc. The snow was seven to twelve
feet deep. but the great cold and wind
had packed it so hard that a number of
passengers walked over the drifts to
M~annsvitie. Later teams were sent to our
train to bring in passengers.
"MannsviIle has about two hundred pop
uiation, and was not prepared 10 feed the
horde of hungry men and women. The
train crew kept the trains warm. so tina
there was little suffering from cold dur
ing the night. In a Very short ti~re
MarnsVille wa eaten ont, and We could
get nothing more until we reached La
coma. The people did everything posi-
BILE TO make us comfortable. but the tweii-
ty-four hours tie-up is an experience few
Of US will ever forget"
Took Food on Snowshoes. +,
To the rains farthest away food was
taken by men on snowshces, who made
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. krat2. newly welded and
en- route from Watertown TO New York,
spent their wedding night on stalled train
No. 8. Tie merry passengers mode things
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 ears
frozen while going from their trains TO
Evansville in the night The train
crews are exhausted from continuous
night and day work in the severe cold.
Three hours we're required for a double
header two engines) three-coach train
to make the distance OF t~wenty-nine miles
from Camden to Lacona.
Camden reports that the coal supply OF
the local dealers is exhausted, and that
The place is threatened with a coal fam
inc.
Owing to the blockade twenty-eight.
passengers en- route from Syracuse to
WATERFOWL on their arrival at R,chland'
were compelled to go to Utica and then.
back by the Black River road, thus trav-
fling $50 miles TO traverse 80 miles of
ailway.
intense in the North.
st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 25.-Fifty-two de-
grees below zero ct Winnipeg, Al at Du-
luth, 4S at New Richmond and IS at st.
Paul. are reported.
Seven persons were frozen to death
and three score are in the hospitals. Train
ioads of sheep, cattle and horses were
frozen to death and brought from the
northwest to St Paul. Traffic is greatly
7elayed and many trains are abandoned.
Traffic Is Delayed.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 25.-The pas,
twenty-four hours has been the coolest
Of the winter. The mercury reached II
below, aid the maximum was z below.
Cold weather is general over Nebraska
and western Iowa, accompanied by a