Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-15
PASSENGERS FORCED TO STAY
At DILLON FOR HOURS
OTHER TRAINS HELD UP.
FREIGHT TRAIN srALLEp;
TRAFFIC - DELAYED
Ne. { rhursday Evenings South
Beund NJ. a st. L. Passenger, Snow.
bound at Dillon - Stays There All
Nieht-Two Other Passengers Held
at GrinnsII by Freight Getting Stuck.

trains either spent Thursday night in
on part Of the line was greatly inter.
fered with during the night and part
Of today. as result Of snow blockade
on the line south OF this city. caused
by ThuNdays snow and wind. Two
trains were stuck south Of here, one
passenger and tho other freight.
The latter train prevented two north
bound passengers from moving. and
they were held at Grinnell from late
Thursday afternoon until this after
uoon.
Spend Night at Dillon.
The passengers who left this city on
40. 3, the south bound train that
pulled out shortly before o'clock
Thursday evening. spent the night at
Dillon. Altho pulled by two big loco
motives the train got stalled in the
little village. 1t remained there from
s $3.50 Thursday evening until $3.50 this
morning, when two engines were sent
to its relief from here. They dragged
the coaches back to the union station.
In trying to get the train out Of the
snow the engines got uncoupled from
the coaches as did also the mail car,
and they could not be coupled up again
The trainmen tried TO get the cars out
one at a time. The mail car was UNI
coupled and pulled for about two car
lengths, when It got stuck and could
not be moved farther. Then the en-
gines were uncoupled in the hope Of
getting them out and clearing the
track. They were moved short dis
tancas and became stuck so they could
not 20 farther in teither direction.
Passengers Make Night Of It.
The passengers were not left IN the
coaches entirely without heat. as the
stoves the cars are provided with were
used and they kept the temperature up.
The passengers made night Of 1t.
MANY Of them visited the little store in
Dillon and bought eatables for mid
night lunch, much to the stores profit.
as it kept open until midnight. After
the train was pulled back to this city
1t was held here, and during the fore
noon It was sent north as No. 1.
Looal Freight Stalled.
North bound local freight. No. 43. got
stalled IN the snow two miles north Of
Grinnell late Thursday afternoon. No.
g. tho north-bound evening local pas
senger train, was held At 0rinnell. a.
was also the north hound night train.
No 5. Neither could proceed until the
freight was released, which was not
accomplished until this forenoon. No. 8
ran as far as this city and its passen-
gers for the north were transferred to
No. 1 and No. was held here. No. 5
went on thru.
No. s, the south bound thru night
train. due here about this morning.
was held at the union station until the
belated trains arrived from the south.
It did not get out until we'll along In
the forenoon.
Branch Train Has Trouble.
The west-bound Story City branch
train got out Of here at 1880 Thurs
day forenoon. After bucking snow all
day 1t got into Story City some time
during the night. 1t left there at 7:45
o'clock this morninn. but 1t was not
known what time today it would reach
here
No trouble was experienced with
snow north Of this city. South of this
city the wind blew harder and drifted
the snow more. The other two roads
had no special difficulties. aitho almost
all Of their trains were behind schedule.
The Great Western had its track where
the wreck occurred near Dunkerton
Thursday cleared by today