Evening journal., 1922-01-30
TRUCKS BURIED
in SNOW DRIFTS
Road Between Newark and
Wilmington Blocked
Since Saturday
OPEN STREETS
WITH TRACTOR
special to The Evening Journal.

Special to The Evening Journal.
NEWARK, Jan. sO.-Newsrk and
vicinity started to dig out immedi-
ately after the storm abated yester-
day but Il will be a several days job.
1t will probably be the last Of the
week before some OF the country
roads are opened up as there are
drifts in them high enough to cover
large automobile trucks.
When the storm ended yesterday
morning both Main street and Depot
Road. the two most important thor
oughfares of the town we're impass-
able and there had been no traffic
over them since early Saturday
night
These streets would probably
have been. closed most OF the day
but for the fact that the Fader Mo-
tor Company sent out a Fordson
tractor and opened them up as far
as possible. This allowed the buses
to get through to the Pennsylvania
Station. There were drifts however
in East Newark that even the trac-
tor could not get through.
UP until late this morning there
had not been an automobile or
traffic OF any kind through from
wilmington to Newark since about
4 o'clock Saturday afternoon and
the same was true from Newark to
Eikton. One OF the busses OF the
Stiltz line OF Newark was the last
motor vehicle to get through. This
bus left Newark at 3 o'clock and
arrived in Wilmington about 6
o'clock. Another stiltz bus left Will
mington about o'clock but after
getting as far as Marshallton had to
turn around and return to Whining
ton and both busses remairsd there
until today.
Trains on both the Pennsylvania
and b. and railroads between
Newark and Wilmington, although
in some instances running late, have
all been operated so that local com
mutters have not been handicapped
in getting to work.
There we're probably a hundred
automobiles and trucks stalled in
the snow on the Lincoln Highway
between Wilmington and Newark
between Newark and Middletown;
Newark and Elkton and on the New
London and Telegraph roads. In
some instances the snow had drifted
to such an extent that large trucks
were completely covered and could
not be found yesterday. Except in a
few Instances no attempt was made
to dig them out until this uorning
frfr
from Newark TO the Pennsylvania
station to meet trains until early
Saturdy evening. The last bus after
meeting a train left the station at
o'clock Saturday night and 1t took
this motor two hours to reach New
ark a distance OF but one mile.
Saturday afternoon number OF
formers who had attended the Will
mington market got to Newark or
vicinity on their return home in au-
tomobiles when their machines STALL
ed and they had to abandon them
In several Instances the farmers
telephoned from Newark to their
homes for horses and finished the
trip on horseback.
II is hardly likely that the Lin
coin Highway from Newark TO VIII.
mington will be opened up for traf
hc before tomorrow as there ar,
many high drifts that will have ts
be dug through. A short distance
east OF Rosevlie there Is a drift saiS
to be about 20 feet high that entirel,
p blocks the road. Early Saturday al
ternoon buses and other machine
] that got through had to, in some in
stances go through fields
University Of Delaware student
- both boys and girls were out il
groups on snow walks yesterday az
ternoon and had a delightful time
I In some instances they walked 10
several miles. A number OF the cir
students seen on the streets yester
day afternoon were in bloomers an,
D were thoroughly enjoying wadinl
4 through the snow.
{ saturday afternoon four univer
! sity students all members of tn
sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity tool
an eight mile hike through tn
< storm and were nearly exhaustei
when they returned FIVE hours later
Those in the party were r. Heat
CARL. John F. Challenger, Charlie
!. ID. Spaid and Ralph L. France. The
y left the frat" house at l o'clocl
: Saturday afternoon and walked ou
Depot Road to Cooch's Bridge the
= followed a road to the top OF Iro
> Hin and returned by the same route
= II is a distance Of about eight mile
= there and back and they were fiv
=. hours making the trip, arriving hom
at o'clock. They found II intensei
. cold on Iron Hill. CARL had icicle
hanging from his ears when h
reached the frat" house and a.
were nearly exhausted.