The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-02-22
Tragedy and Comedy In
Wake of Big Bhs&ard


Although the snow stopped falling,
locally, Wednesday night, high wind
still prevailed. Thursday morning, and
the powdery stun continued TO DRIFT
badly, causing almost as much
trouble as II did Wednesday, when
the blizzard was raging in all Its
Jury. Though not more than eight
inches OF snow fell, the combination
OF the high wind and low tempera.
storm OF half century, and il viii
be another day or two before normal
conditions are restored. The rail-
roads and the street car company are
particularly hard hit. Schedules To-
cally and throughout the state are all
disarranged, passenger trains are com
ing in and going out several hours
late. and on some OF the roads freight
service has been abandoned for the
time being.
The Michigan Central's flyer The
Wolverine" due in Detroit from Cni-
cago at $40 o'clock, Wednesday ar
ternoon, did not get in until 7:45
Thursday morning 1t was IL hours
coming from Kalamazoo. and the pas
sengers put In a dreary night They
suffered from the cold during the
morning hours.
Long Anxious Wait.
Ii was q long, anxious wait for De-
troit friends and relatives OF the pas.
sengers on the stalled trains. The
waiting rooms were thronged all
night long. Many, fearing a wreck,
tried 10 get messages through but
found the telegraph offices swamped
with similar messages.
The other railroads experienced
similar difficulties. The Pere Mar
quette is running no freight trains to-
day.
The road is puttisg forth every ef.
fort 10 keep its passenger trains NOV
ing. but all are far of schedule. Every
train is a double-header and rs pre-
coded by a snow-plow. Pere Mar
quette officials say that conditions are
worst in the Saginaw valley. The
drifts in some cases are 10 feet deep.
Some trains were not sent out at all,
Wednesday, when the storm was at Its
height.
ing irregular service on all It's city
lines except the Springwells plug and
the Victor-aye. plug. To keep the
tracks clear cars were run on all lines
throughout the night, and II meant
long hours for car crews The suDur-
ban service Is badly crippled, and
will not be restored 10 normal until
the wind subsidies. The Flint division
is tied up completely. Hourly service
obtains on the Pontiac division, only
one track being IN use. The Detroit,
Jackson a Chicago line is operating
10 Ann Arbor only, and a car was re-
ported stalled near Grass Lake. early
Thursday morning The Detroit, Mon
roe Il Toledo division is In good
shape, but there Is no service 10
Cleveland Cars are running on the
Orchard Lake division to Farming
ton only, the sections between Farm
ington and Worthwhile and Pennington
and Detroit, being snowbound.
The Shore Line TO Mt. Clemens is
temporarily out OF business, but cars
are running on the Rapid railway as
far as the Bath city. No cars have
reached Detroit from Port Huron
since Wednesday night, however.
Good service is being maintained on
The Wyandotte division, Nearly 4
dozen cars were stalled during the
night on interurban lines, and in some
cases food had TO he carried TO the
passengers.
Curriers' Are Stalled.
What was TO have been a sharp con-
test between the Detroit and Grand
Rapids curling clubs in the Furniture
city, today, will not come of on ac-
count OF the storm. Two Kinks were
to represent Detroit In the contest.
one OF them composed OF Dr. w. H..
Kessler: DR.. =. w Robbins, w IL.
Speaker and c. +. Gallagher, left over
the Pere Marquette late "Wednesday
afternoon. The other team, which in
cluded Alex. Stevenson, DIVE b. Dur
field. John r. Dodge and A. ID. b. Van
Zandt decided to take the Michigan
Central, leaving" at 1 p. IN. They
sired TO their berths, fully expect.
ing TO find themselves In Grand Rap
ids this morning, but when the porter
called them at o'clock. they found
themselves still in Detroit.
The latest theory with reference to
the valuable homing pigeon that
sought refuge In Allan Frazers Inv
ONCE. in the blizzard. sets the bird
down as political harbinSer,
meaning that the ex-proseeutor Is q
refuge for local Republicans in time
! OF tempest and storm. The reference