Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-03
LAKEWOOD EXPRESS
tSSTALLED IN DR|F: 7
MiIkman and Grocer Save Pas
sengers, Including Many In
valids, from Starvation.
LIGHTS Go OUT AND HEAT
DIMINISHES IN THE CARS
Communication With Southern
Part of State Cut Off-Sea-
bright Suffers.

lust what damage the storm did
in central and southern New Jersey
will not be known until some form of
communication is established with
those sections. All telegraph lines
south of Newark are cut off, and the
telephone wires are not in much
better shape.
It will be several days before the
general paralysis is removed. 1t is
known that Seabright and other
towns along the coast suffered con
siderably and are entirely isolated,
but no definite information about
them can be obtained.
The railroads today are beginning
to resume something like their nor
NAL schedule. Pennsylvania trains for
Philadelphia and the South, however,
can proceed no further than Mon
mouth Junction, but snow-plows are
Mt work, and it is believed that the
Pennsylvania trackage in New Jer-
sey will be clear before nightfall. The
situation is the same on the Lacka-
wanna, Central and Erie.
Express Stalled in Drift
Only the heroism OF trainmen, men
among the passengers and residents
of the vicinity has prevented the
most acute suffering and perhaps
death in some instances, of passen-
gers aboard the Observation-Disclosures
city express of the Central railroad
of New Jersey, now hemmed in by
immense snowdrifts in Patterson's
cut two miles from Red Bank.
Today the marooned passengers
are subsisting on canned goods from
country grocery. procured through
the efforts of l.. -. Stoddard, of New
York, the polo player, who risked his
life in the storm to get aid for his
fellow unfortunates on the train.
Although the wrecking crew is toll
ing with utmost strength to clear
away the great banks of snow be-
meath which the track is buried at
either end of the stalled train, 1t will
be tonight at the earliest before the
express can steam on its way.
Members of the crew are constantly
shoveling snow into the engine boiler
that steam may be kept up and the
train heated Thus the passengers
have been warmed, but the dynamo
that generates current for the electric
lighting system has broken down and
the train last night was in total dark
ness. save for the feeble illumination
provided by four or five candles.
Invalids Find Shelter.
Several of the passengers are in
valids. travelling in the care of
nurses and bound for Atlantic City
and Lakewood to recuperate. They
have been removed to the home of
Harry l.. Powers, of the Hazard Cat
sup Company, about a mile from the
train.
Not only accounts of physical suf-
fering among the passengers but also
several pathetic stories of travellers
who were rushing for last visits with
dying relatives have come from the
train.
Miss Mamie Fischer, of 2119 Bev-
erly road. Brooklyn, was on her way
to Lakewood, where niece, the
daughter of Mrs. S. Laun, is report
. ITO be dying. Another woman was
IN her way to see her dying mother.
= The express left Liberty street at
230 Sunday afternoon, reaching Red
Bank about $50, nearly two hours
late. AS the train pulled out of that
place the storm grew rapidly more
violent and the eighty-mle wind be-
gan to heap the snow higher on the
track.
When about seven miles north of
Lakewood the train, consisting of an
engine, a combination baggage and
smoker, a passenger coach and a buf-
lei 4 ulliudn CtT, Itiu lllu Il SIoW ullll
and was unable to go any farther.
Thinking he would be able to back
up as far as Red Bank, the engineer,
Frank Manion, of 1923 Pacific avenue,
Jersey City, assisted by Fireman
Harry Miller, of 315 Wilton street,
the same city, reversed the train. On
the way the train crew, six bralSemen
and conductor, and six members of
the wrecking crew, who were taken
aboard at Red Bank, were compelled
to cut away thirty-six telegraph poles
which had blown down over the
tracks,
Summit Isolated.
Summit has been practically isolat-
ed from the surrounding country
ever since the beginning of the storm.
There has been no communication by
mail with the towns bordering on the
Lackawanna Railroad since Satur-
day, Telephone and telegraph SER
vice has been almost entirely sus-
pended, there being only two wires in