The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-24
''PENNSY RAILROAD
STILL FIGHTS SNOW
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cago, was held up at Hagerstown be-
Of it, was broken up this afternoon
and the cars returned to Richmond.
It's passengers were transferred to
No A. Like No. ~, train No. 10, fol-
lowed the Logansport snow pillow.
Members of the crew of the snow
plow stated that it was thankless
Job beating a path through the drifts
from Logansport to Richmond, for as
fast as the snow was swept from the
tracks it would drift back again. They
thought that this condition would not
prevail on their return trip today, be-
cause the wind had subsidized consider
ably
Commissary cars were sent from
Richmond to Hagerstown; from Koko-
mo to Sulphur Springs and Honey
Creek, and from Richmond to New
Hope The cars were kept warm and
the passengers were served meals in
the dining cars.
All through passengers taken from
trains bound for Cincinnati. Chicago.
or points along the Cincinnati d1v1s-
ion, from New Paris to Columbus,
were sent to local hotels here and Civ
en- food and lodging at the company s
expense.
Praise Road Officials.
There were twenty-five passengers
who were taken from trains bound for
Dayton who were sent to hotels here
at the Company's expense.
Twenty-six passengers on trains
bound either to Cincinnati or Chicago.
were also cared for at local hotels by
the company. The passengers were
loud in their praises of the treatment
they received.
man and his wife and two chill
dren, coming from Virginia, enroute
to Canada, refused to accept the hos
pitality of the company. They were
unused to travelling and feared to
leave the train, although the station
master told them last night that a
warm room with two beds had been re-
served for them at the Arlington no.
tel and had been paid for by the COM
pany They we're the only persons
who spent the night in the coaches
and slept in their clothing, on the
seats.
Buried ~ Hours.
Train No. 43, almost buried in a
drift at New Hope. o., was pulled out
about o'clock this morning after be-
ing snowbound since early yesterday
afternoon.
Southbound trains, Nos. II and "a
were snowbound between Richmond
and Logansport, the former at Sui.
i'hur Springs and the other at Honey
Creek. Into the tons of snow which
surrounded these trains the big Lo
gansport flanger battered it's way
and both were. finally extricated. but
they could not resume their progress
southwark to Richmond because No
Al was hard and fast in the Hagers
town drift.
After the northbound flanger and
the trains following it pass Nos. Il
and "a this afternoon the two trains
will start for Richmond, with a fairly
clear track ahead of them.
No. II had the remarkable exper
fence of being twice snowbound yes
terday, once hrtween LoganSport AND
kokomo and again at Sulphur Springs
No. II was due in Richmond yesterday
morning at $50. She will proba bly,
arrive about thirty-six hours late. He1
crew is almost exhausted from its
desperate fight with the snow.
No. 43, due in Richmond from Gin
cinnati at 1890 yesterday morning
arrived in Richmond about s O'Clock
this morning after having been snow
bound nearly all yesterday afternoon
and all last night at New Hope, o
Two engines serlC from Cincinnati anC
three from Richmond, and corps o.
over fifty laborers armed with shov
els finally succeeded in getting the
train cut of the drift about five O'CLOCK
this morning. After Al had been ex
tricated the relief engines continued
their way to Eaton. opening up the
~ o. ,s<I, i
at Eaton.
A commissary car was taken to New
Hope with the relief train to feed the
almost famished crews and passen
gers Of the stalled train and to furn
fish hot coffee for the laborers
Commissary cars were also sent tt
stranded trains at Hagerstown, Sui
phur Springs and Honey Creek.
The crew on No. 10 which came in
to Richmond at noon yesterday from