The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-16
STORM HALTS ARMY
OF |. |. COMMUTERS
IN MANY SECTIONS
Broken Cable Sails 200 Trains
On Trrstles in Tunnel and
on the Flat.
NARROWED CROWDS
RESCrED ~ STEAM

The 100000 commuters who are accus-
toned to- brag about the Long Island
Railroad because II generally moves tie
rsins serenely through ferocious storms
that smother many another road had
their loyalty tested to the last grain yes
terday. A main feed cable snapped
under its load of sleet at 1850 o'clock in
the morning and the entire system was
para,yzed all day.
Trains stopped running out Of the
venue terminal In Brooklyn. Trains
full Of passengers were halted all along
the lines. One happened to be OH the ia
maica Bay trcstle when the third rail
went dead"
With no power the heat in the cars
also was shut of and for two hours trav-
oilers who imagined they were slowly
freezing to death danced and stamped
w and down the aisles kept their
blood moving. On the Flushing mead.
owl, midway between Corona and Flush.
ing on the North Side division. three
trains-seventeen frigid cars--were
STALLED FOR nearly two hours There were
many experiences of this sort.
Worst Tiesp Under Electricity.
II was the worst tieup the Long
Island Railroad has had since its met.
fopolital lines We're electrified. Even
tuslly steam locomotives were sent out
I'd rescue the electric trains, but IL was
%:3o o'clock In the afternoon before cleo
tric power was fully restored and late
last night before regularity OF schedule
Was resumed.
The railroad operates 500 rains a day.
About 200 stopped In their tracks when
a feed cable of the main power station
At Long Island City broke between
woodside and Whitfield. Using the cleo
tricity stored In sub-stations. some of the
trans were able TO crawl along For sew
eral miles. Then some power was bor-
rowed from the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company. but 1t was Insufficient.
WAS the good old gian, steam that
hnaIly helped the commuters out Of their
difficulties. While the steam locomotives
scurried to and fro. power in the feed
wires that remained intact was shut of
70 that the repair gangs could work
One train was stopped 500 feet from
~ ftAt'A aAfh llNfNN -
the passengers. Drawing the avalanche
OF sleet propelled by "A forty mile wind.
walked the tracks 10 III. station. and
finished their journey on the elevated
road. The 400 travellers stuck on the
amaica Bay trestle Were not so for
tunate. for the trestlc WAS too icy for
walking. After two hours a steam loco.
motive hauled the train, TO Broad Chan
mel. Later two trains we're stalled in
the tunnel between Las, New York and
Flatbush avenue.
East River Tunnel Trains stop.
A steam engines cannot use the tun.
mel under the Eas, River. Long Island
traffic In and out OF the Pennsylvania
Station stopped completely. Thousands
Of persons filled the Long Island waiting
oom Al that station. hurting thousands
Of questions al the information clerks
n gatemen.
Electric rains were running the EN-
tire length of the North Side division
to Port Washington and Whi;.stoue last
night. hut Oh the other divisions pas
sengers were transferred At Jamaica
from electric to steam trains. Tickets
to destination were accepted by any
route
Trolley lines between Rockaway and
Ncponsi, broke down in the morning.
adding 10 the confusion. In Brooklyn
the elevated service slowed up. hut on
the whole did no; suffer much.
Beaton J. Bel. u druggist 81 ia maica.
who got off "a stalled Long Island train
In the tunnel near Nostrand avenue.
elippcd on the ice and di-loca;ed his
right shoulder. He was taken TO the
Brooklyn Hospital.