The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-26

more trains would be sent out No trains
we're coming In on the line. Inc New
York. Ontario and Western trains that
come in over the West Shore are snow
bound so far up the State that the men IN
the Weehawken depot tell ingurers that
they don't know when they will get in.
LONG ISLAND ROAD QUITS
II was the first time since 1883 that the
Long Island road had TO quit anso'
lutey. Wherever there Is a deep cut alohH
the lines the snow filed 1t In. In the yara7
mt Long Island City and elsewhere the
switches were ice locked and could not pe
The results TO persons living along the
lines verged on the tragic. The Htatl9h az
Long Island City was jammed with Long
Island people who had thought 10 get home
Inv startinR early Some got away, out
most OF them were reduced to despair
when these signs were posted at 2:3O p NJ;
-The storm has made II impossible 10
move trains on the Long Island Railroad
No tickets will be sold until further notice;
Rnat after boat from New York added
IN the lam. By5 O'Clock the waiting rooms
were 40 full that nobody could get IN AT
9 the ferryhouse was full and people were
standing under the sheds and in the open
taking The wind and snow in their races
unable to go anywhere else.
Delegation after delegation went 70 tle
Office OF AttneTal NuDtlllllf'ANA'''
and General Manager Potter, begging the
officials TO move at least one tram; lne
officials gave the same answer 10 all;
we have done everything we could
but there isn't wheel turning. on the Ioad
and we can't tell you when there VIII oe,
If the wind dies down we may be eoie 70
send few trains out.
OFFER TO HELP SHOVEL.
One fur coated citizen who lives in Mineoa
yot thiG apgwpr md said.
Saw the word and will 20 20 the waiting
room and the street and get w men 70
shovel snow from in front OF any tram
you will send out.
said stunt. Addison. "We don't want pas
sengers 10 take chances on trains in tins
kind OF storm.
But we are willing to take any kind OF
n chance" said the Mineola man. We
have got TO get home tonight.
Sorry, but 1t can't be done, was the
reply.
TRAGEDY AMONG THE WOMEN
Women wept in the station and some
got hysterical few had brought babies
out into the storm.
awe lust got to get home. There's no
coal in the house. There's nobody to get
supper. There's nobody to feed my dog
or my cat. My mother is SICK and alone
must get there some way they. cried.
The officials advised everybody to go
back to Manhattan and stay all night.
Thousands took the advice. but many
OF the commuters had not enough money
with them and stayed where they We're
ITALIAN KILLED, WHOLE GANG QUITS
Two hundred Italian laborers we're put
TO work in the Long Island City yards
early in the morning to assist the regular
yardmen in keeping the switches clear.
About 0 o'clock train backed In and killed
one of them, Antonio Foennro. cutting
him in two. He was blinded by the snow
and did not hear the train. When the
other Italians saw what had happened
they dropped shovels scrapers and plcks
and ran out of the yards in body They
wouldn't come back. new gang, mostly
negroes, was put to work about O'Clock,
but by afternoon the fight TO keep the
switches clear had become hopeless
'wK'RE WHIPPED. THE OFFICIALS SAY.
1T is much better to keep these people
all nj ght In New York than to take q hem
out and freeze them to death somewhere
in a snowdrift.' said Chief Dispatcher
Aagee. we have done our beet to make
our patrons understand that the blizzard
has simpy whipped us out and that we
are elpless but II seems impossible' Ihey
all have pictures in their minds OF freez-
ing. hungry families. or something OF that
sort. and they simply lose their head.
MISSING TRAINS LOCATED.
Chief Dispatcher Magee got a line on
all Of his pas senRer trains early IN the alter
noon. BY noon every westbound tram
that started yesterday morning was in the
Long Island City yards. tied up. The east
bound trains added n few gray hairs to his
head Some OF these got into difficulties
and we're stalled in drifts along the main
line and the branches 20 Oyster bay. Wad-
ing River, Far Rockaway and Hampstead
Snowploughs were sent to their relief. BY
3 o'clock Magee knew where every tram
was.
They will be held in their terminals
until further orders, said he. We Go not
intend taking chances with the ilves ol our
passen gers or our own men IN blizzard
of this kind He got reports from Green
port, Amagansett, Port Jefferson, Oyster
BAY, Patchogue, Far Rockaway Babylon,
Hempstead and Montauk OF all trains from
the west safely in and passengers dis
charged.
ONE TRAIN STALLED ALL NIGHT.
One train which he expected would get
in, however. was stalled all night between
Floral Park and Garden City, On 1t were
many passengers, including women and
school girls The snow had piled up IN
drifts over twenty feet high against the
cars The train is in a deep cut and sc yeral
cars were almost completely covered.
Several of the girls and women endeayored
70 walk 70 Garden City and Floral Park,
but became so exhausted that the men on
the train insisted they should return TO
the train. Some OF the passengers man
aged to reach the Floral Park railroad
station and adjoining houses, and were
taken in for the night. The others spent
the night on the train, which fortunately
was warm ,..,
Conductor Henry Smith, Brakeman VIII
liam Doty and Engineer Williamson waded
through the drifts from their stalled train
a half-mile to the store Of II. j. Wright,
whore they got a large supply OF sand
witches and several gallons Of coffee. Almost
completely exhausted they managed to
return through the drifts to their train
and fed the hungry passengers, who had
been on the train since | O'Clock in the
afternoon.
OF the $1,000 people the Lon Island
Railroad handles daily 1t was estimated
that two-thirds We're etornbound. Two
hundred and eghty-four trains we're put
out of business.
COLONIAL EMPRESS SAUNTERS.