Evening journal., 1909-12-27
RAILROADS ARE RECOVERING
FROM STORMS HARD BLOW
After Complete Tie-up of Eighteen Hours p B. and
w. and B. and o. Systems Operate Trains
Through Cfy---Driffs Maroon Passengers

both roads Lack OF preparation was
the great difficulty
Many Stalled in Depots.
Thousands, who had planned to take
trains out Of the city were forced to
remain in the railway stations for
hours. hoping hour after hour that the
storm would abate and their particular
train would get through. But for the
most part they waited in vain.
OF the thousands Of disappointed
travellers several hundred spent all Of
Saturday night and a good part Of
yesterday In the stations. Most Of the
time there were not enough seats to
go around and anxious ones paced up
and down, hoping that at least one
train-the one they wanted-would get
bit Of song and dance by professionals
helped make the hours pass more rap
Dramatic Club Delayed.
The most severe tie up on the Mary
land division were near Edgemoor. Iron
Hill and Prices Tower, at the latter
point the Yale Dramatic Club, and a
bride and bridegroom, were among the
people on one of the trains that got
were brought back to this city and
got away again al 4 o'clock this morn
ing. The bride and groom refused to
tell their names. but said they were
from Kentucky.
The twenty-five members of the club
said that they were in a great hurry
to go to Washington where they have
an engagement for this afternoon so
L. rf int .Is.I
to give them rooms at little hotel
across from the station, so that if a
train was started south before morn
ing they could call them. Later the
club and bridal pair went to the Clay
ton House.
I Drifts Holds Trains.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had
two trains caught in drift at Stanton
and the passengers We're delayed twelve
hours officials of the company sent pro
visions TO the stalled train and made the
passenger otherwise comfortable. The
/ train moved south at midnight
| Blue Liner Buried in Drift.
southbound Royal Blue train on the
/ Baltimore and Ohio railroad was in a
snowdrift ten feet deep, a mile below
Chester yesterday. The train, containing
! sleeping cars. bound for Washington and
was well filled with passengers.
/ Strenuous efforts on the part Of the crew
of the train failed TO move her more than
fifty yards for hours. The passengers, IA
tigued with hunger and thirst, clamored
for relief and late last night were told
that they would have 10 go back TO Ches-
ter. hunt up hotels and restaurants. as
there was no dining car or buffet on the
train.
serious drawback for the trainmer
was the fact that the locomotives ran ouf
Of water. and being unable to keep NJ
steam were easy victims of the storm. The
crew tried melting snow with which the,
furnished the boilers with water, but thil
plan proved unsuccessful. The point wher'
the train stalled, while only a short dis
tance from the central section Of Chester
was i'm a deep cut. and was surrounded by
a desoIate section OF country, giving tn
New York passengers and other stranger
on board the train the impression tha
they were miles from any point Of habita
tion.
Royal Blue Mishap.
While the Royal Blue Flyer from New
York to Washington, was running at
high speed on the west side OF the Schuyl
kill River beyond Philadelphia. Earl,
yesterday, the locomotive and tender
, plunging into a bridge drift. were de
. rallied. broken of from the rest OF tn
train, and upset only a few yards from
steep bank leading into the river.
= The engineer jumpd from the cab as tn
locomotive turned. and, landing in tn
snow. escaped injury. but the fireman wa
struck by the fender and badly hurt O.
the head and shoulders
The cars filled with several hundre
New Workers kept TO the rails as IN
coupling pin between the tender and IN
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