The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-26
RAILROAD PALSY.
Absolute Knockout for Iona
Island and West Shore.
CENTRAL ALMOST As BAD.
Gigantic Fan OF Stalled Trains
Outside Jersey City.

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Dining Cars Stormed by the Hungry From
the Accommodation Trains-Police
Reserves Called TO Handle Montclair
When Train Went Out at Las'-20th
Century Limited Got as FIR as Pough-
Drift at Iryington ind Feeding on tho
Country-HndsoE River Division OF
Taken 10 Stalled Train Near Floral Park
The steam railroad tie-up Appropriated
that of March, 1888. but trains did get in
and get out in most directions The Long
Island Railroad quit absolutely at 2:30 in
the afternoon, and the West Shore quit
early in the evening The great trunk
lines brought in and sent out trains as they
could, schedules going to pieces. The
Hudson River division OF the New York
Central was full Of stalled trains, on some
OF which passengers. tucked away for the
night, were told that nobody knew when
| they would move on. Likewise on the out
skirts Of Jersey City were many expresses
turned into temporary hotels.
NO THROUGH TRAFFIC. FROM GRAND CENTRAL.
On the New York Central, 1.-THE Harlem
and the New York and New Haven lines
| through traffic was at standstill by
O'Clock in the afternoon. The worst suf-
ferer of these was the New York Central.
and on this the trouble was entirely on the
1 HnJu dfHaui ~
! there was little or none. While the storm
was at its worst here the sun was shining
at Utica, Oneida, Little Falls and so on
westward, and all travel freight included.
was moving in its normal way.
Below Hudson, in the sweep of the storm
across the solidly frozen river. the trouble
began early and came thick and fast. The
gale swept the snow up against the hills
of the eastern shore and piled it up in i'm
penetrable banks on the tracks. The
earliest incoming through trains managed
to get TO the city. The New York Express,
due at SIS in the morning, arrived
at e.25 the Atlantic Express. due at 7. at
1895; the Buffalo Special. due at 1875 at
| 1920: the Cleveland and New York Special,
due at $50, got in at 1l:49; the Southwestern,
| Special. due at 900, got in at 2;0s, and the
Limited Fast Mail due at 10 O'Clock. did
not get in until $50,
Right there the service OF incoming trains
stopped. Not another attempt was made
! 10 get a through train from the West and
| North into the city. The Chicago Limited
and the Empire State Express. the South
western Limited, the Eastern Express,
and the New Yorker were all held at AL
bany and beyond.
TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED STALLED.
The early outgoing through trains got
! through the storm belt safely. These in
oludei the Empire State, the Fast Mail
and the day express. The last attempt
to get a through train out for the West
was with the Twentieth Century Limited.
1t was due to leave al PAS in the afternoon.
and it got away approximately on time.
1t got stuck in the snow at New Hamburg
after spending two hours on the road, and
at $40 in the evening it bad orawled and
burrowed its way along as far as Pough-
keepsie.
After this train left notices we're put ,
up that no more through trains would be-
started and persons who had bought tickets !
got their money back.
PASSENGERS LIVE ON THE COUNTRY y
The Albany Express and Croton local,
which left about the same time as the
Twentieth Century Limited, came TO a
halt in a drift just south Of the Irvington
station. Late last night they were still
stalled and the passengers had resigned
themselves to a night in the cars Mes
sengers were sent through the snow TO the
village for provender. and men. women
and children ate cold suppers in the cars
The engines kept steam up in the cars Md
the trainmen did everything possible
toward making the passengers comfortable
for the night. Word reached the trains
that snow plough which had started down
the line to the rescue had been hopolessly
stuck
BOSTON EXPRESS IN A DRIFT AT RYE.
On the New York and New Haven road
trains from Boston got through to New
Haven up TO noon nearly on time Tn.
fiercest end Of the storm did not get into
eastern Connecticut and Massachusetts,
until after noon The worst trouble between
New York and New Haven was at Rye.
Here the drift was the westbound
track, and the Boston Express, due in New
York AT 4:i5 stuck fast there about o'clock
in the afternoon and held everything up
behind it. 1t had not got away at 10 O'Clock
last night, and the kniokerbooker Limited,
the Merchants Limited, the Pittsteld ex-
press and the Gilt Edge Express were piled
in behind il. The afternoon express and
the Hartford Express were abandoned.
All the late afternoon trains for Boston
were annulled, though 1t was hoped TO get
the newspaper train out.
SUBURBAN TRAINS RAN AS THEY COULD.
Suburban service on all these lines was
continued systematically all through the
evening. Not the least attempt was made
to observe any schedules. When a train
got in II was emptied and started back
loaded to the limit. These local trains
we're strewn all along through the tunnel
and stuck at intervals all the way north
TO Mott Haven and beyond. Thousands
Of suburbanites who came TO the station