New-York tribune., 1905-01-26
ALL RAILWAYS BLOCKED.
NO TRAINS TO THE CITY.
Fresh Food Supplies Are Cut off for
Time.

No railway trains were running into this city
| last night, all the lines centring at New-York
! being tied up by the storm. Except for the
| telegraph, the telephone and g few steamers.
NewYork was cut off from the rest of the
world
Soon after O'Clock bulletin was posted in
the Grand Central Station that no more trains
We're expected TO arrive over the New-York Cen
tral road during the night. This notice re-
| ferred to both local and express trains. On the
New Haven system very few trains were dis
patched, and those which had arrived were from
four to eight hours behind schedule time. The
Boston express, due to arrive at AS p. m, was
reported stalled in a snowdrift at Rye No milk
or freight trains arrived in the city any Of
the New-York Central or New-Haven divisions
On account of the high snowdrifts three trains
were stalled at Irvington the tracks Of the
New-York Central The trains were supposed
TO leave this city at 2:45 p. M, 2:54 p. m. and
1856 p. m. The first was the Twentieth Century
Limited for Chicago. the second was local to
| Croton and the third an Albany train
The snow at Irvington had drifted to the
| height Of twenty feet, and persons were unable
to leave the cars on account of the heavy drifts
in the streets. The Twentieth Century Limited
carried enough food for its passengers, but trav-
ellers on the other two trains, including num-
| Der of women and children, had to be satisfied
with supper Of cheese and crackers 1t was
| thought that attempts might be made to have
! the trains pushed to Tarrytown. Otherwise the
| passengers would have TO spend the night in
| their seats.
| Probably the most distressing te-up of the
whole storm was on the Long Island Railroad.
/ the result Of which was that many hundreds Of
| women and girls, well as men, were in the
ferryhouse until far into the night, waiting for
| trains. Pathetic to a degree was the case OF
hundreds of shop girls, who make practice Of
carrying only their carfare and just enough
| money 10 buy monday meal. When these un-
fortune girls reached the 34th-st ferry last night
| and read the notice posted there, mo trains
| running until further notice. there were heart
rending scenes.
| The railway stations in Jersey City were
| crowded with detained passengers, some angry.
some nervous and some inclined to hysteria.
The Erie had a double infiiction. While the
| snow and wind arrested the movement of trains,
| the tide driven by the wind. rose until it sub
merged a portion of the ferryhouse and swept
| out into Pavonia-ave.. forming lake that was
| a hundred yards long and foot deep.
The Erle's through trains the officials re-
Iuctantly admitted last night. were about three
/ hours late. From other sources it was learned
| afternoon.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad experienced great
| difficulty not alone with it's interlocking
| switches, but in its cut through Jersey City
| Heights. The wind carried the snow into the
| gorge in clouds. and baf1ed the efforts Of the
| army Of workrnen to remove it. They shovelled
it away and packed it at the sides of the tracks,
| to return and find the tracks again covered.
| Passengers on the stalled trains started to walk
| to the ferry. but speedily driven back to
| the cars by the binding snow. Coffee and sand
witches were served on the cars.
| The Congressional Limited. which should have
left Jersey City at 3:45 O'Clock. was not started
| until 7:20 o'clock. subject to delay.
| The Lehigh Valley Railroad was in similar
| distress Few trains were sent out. and ex-
| press trains were run as locals. The express
due at 3:55 did not get in until 1880 and the ex-
press train due at 421 had not been heard from
| up to o'clock.
+ The susquehanna Railroad was virtually out
| of commission. One train got out about
o'clock in the afternoon. the first since morn
ing, and the next left the station at Z o'clock
last night to join the colony of stalled trains in
the Jersey City cut.
The conditions on the Central Railroad Of
! New-Jersey and the Lehgh Valley were worse
The Newark and New-York branch OF the Jer-
| near Jackson-ave.. in the Bergen district. A
train which left the COmmunipaw station NJ
o'clock, after a long wait at Jackson-ave., re-
turned to Comnunipaw. and the Newark and
New-York branch suspended business.
Huge drifts on the Hackensack Meadows
blocked the Turnpike and the Plankroad trolley
routes between Jersey City and Newark before
noon Courthouse line cars were stalled going
up the hill near the bridge over the " est Shore
at IL O'Clock. The road was then so arIfted that
the line abandoned
The city's mail service already dtsarran6ed
when the day opened. became worse and worse
as the day and the storm wore on. Postmaster
Wilcox ordered that every available extra man
and sub-car rrier that could be secured he Imme-
diately put the routes 10 reinforce the resu-
lars especially III the downtown section, SO that
business men would be inconvenienced rs little
as possible Serious delays in the delivery o.
mail crpples business more than the general
public imagines the postal officials say. and even
with the augmented force the mail deliveries
were badly crippled
1t will be impossible 10 move train out OF
the Long Island City station of the Long Island
Railroad before o'clock this morning More
than one thousand people spent the night IN the
big waiting room Of the station sleeplng, or try
ing to- Probably dve hundred more slept III tls
Grand Central Station. In the Jersey city sta
tions OF the various roads q few passengers took
refuge