The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-14
RELIEF FROM
COLD WEATHER
ON ITS Way,
SAYS MOORE
Richmond Plays Hostess to
$50 Marooned Guests Sum
day; Communication With
Outside is Partly Establish
ed Again.
ROADS ARE IMpASSIBLE

Richmond Monday still played the
part Of hostess to more than $50
guests who were marooned here
since Friday night by the worst bliz-
zard in recent years. The marooned
ones were expecting to leave late Mon
day afternoon, however when a train
was expected to leave for Chicago.
Relief from the cold wave is rapid
ly moving toward Richmond and is
bringing with 1t more snow according
to Weather Forecaster Moore Monday.
The mercury may reach thirty-two de.
grees above zero or even rise higher.
There is no immediate prospects Of
announced. Snow is predicted for
Monday night and Tuesday.
Traffic was rapidly getting back to
its normal condition, although no
train has left for Chicago since Fri
Gay night.
Calls For Workers.
W. O. Jones, supervisor of Wayne
county roads, Monday issued an appeal
for workers to aid in clearing roads in
the county. In many places, he said.
snow has drifted to a depth of fifteen
feet and Is packed hard.
Men worked all days Sunday in an
attempt to make way for rural mail
carriers by Monday. However the
work is slow ss the snow is packed
tight and can only be removed with
shovels. 1t will take several days, it
is believed, before the roads are in
fairly good condition again.
All freight shipments out of Rich
mond have ben embargoed by the
Pennsylvania and c. & o. lines. The
embargo probably will remain in eff.
feet until trains resume their regular
schedules again.
Only coal and coke will be allowed
to run through Richmond and no ship
ments, consigned to points west Of
Pittsburgh, will be accepted by the
Pennsylvania lines. 5-y
Jerome Shurley of the Glen Miller
stockyards said Monday that $50 hogs
and 40 head of cattle were we'll taken
care of at the stockyards during the
blizzard. None froze. ....
$50 Were Marooned.
Nearly $50 persons bound for other
points were marooned in Richmond
Sunday and all hotels were crowded
with the disappointed guests. How.
ever, most of them took their predica-
ment good-naturedly. Music was pro-
vided and news-stands sold all of their
magazines.
Most Richmond residents hibernated
Sunday and visited" via the tele-
phone. Telephone girls. who usually
take a vacation on Sunday, were busy
from morning to night All records for
the daily number of calls were broken.
S,n 1oy 0n0
ager Bailey Of the telephone company
said Monday. Saturday, all records
we're broken when telephone operators
handled 100000 calls.
The telephone operators braved the
zero temperature Sunday to serve the
telephone using public. AS result
several are suffering from frosted"
ears Monday. Miss Stella McGreevey
chief operator, was one whose ears
were frost-bitten.
According to Manager Bailey most Of
the company's telephone wires are in
good condition throughout the city
and county.
First Train From cney.
st. Louis-New York trains were
scheduled to arrive in Richmond from
two to four hours late. A train for
Chicago was expected to leave late
Monday afternoon.
The train from Cincinnati, which
was due to arrive I'm Richmond at
10:45 O'Clock Saturday morning, ar.
rived at $50 o'clock Sunday night
It was delayed thirty-four hours in a
snow drift. about half-mile long, near
Eaton. The crew was relieved at
Richmond but the train did not start
for Chicago on account of the still
blocked condition of the line.
Train No 90. due to arrive at 4:40
Sunday afternoon, from st. Louis, did
not arrive until 8 o'clock Sunday
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