TRAIN EXPERIENCES

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 260, 2 May 1888, Page 5

TRAIN EXPERIENCES

I',i-m m»_m i- ,md tia'iuni ii <m 'lie 111,111 1 1 am-. l'l-t 111 n 111 lOpoit ,1!) (\i lit t.l! tllp K\pl( — man Collins ot tin- eit \ -.ml ' c lctl I'liil.nli Iplu.i at 7 hi loi k Mun(].i\ inoi inni^ < in at • 1 1 1 1 >l< ■ -now -t <>i in W ( '_i< »t «ilt»ii'_i tin hi-t \.e could till al)o\U 6o • lot k in (In aftci noon, when we aitiud .it Lenou, i, |)l,l(< lift \ -C\(Ml l))ll( - till- -Hit fit I'llll.uU'l I iiln.i Thue we wen 1 coni|)U'ti'l\ snowed! in The gale bleu at the latent litt\ milts ; an hou and it «,i- -now inu a-haida-it | could -now Ii v.a- like a line nowdi i. and it -oon com led tin uioimd all aiound and undci tin tiain until i< iea< hed up to the dooi of in\ (ai It mu t ha\t been tout , ft et dei p W o had to -ta\ thete until 3 ! o'cloi k \e-tenla\ atlcinoon when tour en irinis pulled ii-. oiu ot thediltt " Kied Mi- ( hael-,a vnuuj^ man ti oni Monington,( 'onn . \\ ,b t he onl\ pa---engei whocami horn \ew \ oik He had left theie at 12 o i lock Suncta\ night. Michaels w 'i- on hi- \\;i\ to WashmgtoTi The Main letl l'hilade|phi,i \londa\ inoinmu, and -oon came into tenifh -nowdnlt-. "I ne\ei -,ns -n< h a iili//aid. -aid Michael-, "in all ui> lite, and I h,i\e or en Inin^ out \N • -t N»i flu l.i-t- ton \eai- l itiht om the plain- Theienen nine t i.iit)^ 1\ ni'j; allo^Cthei , e.ich hlockadiiiL: tlu othci Snow w.i^ -unoiindiii^ ,md|>aitl> coMjim^ tlinn. and uliue the dntb had been piett.x -.honu, \oii oiiltJ not -co au\ tiling ot the <at at all Thete. \\a- nothing to he done but to stop The w iml bh w a hunicj.nc and the -now wa- blinding Although the !nc»- in I ho c-.u-> mcic led hot, vol. it -oemed almo'-t a^ cold a- it the} had "not, burned at nil Wo lay Lhei c toi about ten hom>. "A good many ot 1 he pawn<j,ei s be^an to be hunm'.N \ct\ -oon. and new complaints benan. 0 Oi coui^e, tln-ie Mcroome oMi^ (hub had -atuhMehe^ and such tiling-, but they did not la^t lon^. 1 don t think that an> man can eat while he -ties somebody else htai\in<i. Then the men had toj^et out and buy^btead. Jnalloui mistoi tunes, howe\ei, we i etiiined oood cheei. Thvouuh the snow we went, neatly uj) to oiu \\aibt>, hunting up bakeshops. Some of the pahCn h <,(;r did (|iiite a business .selling what they could not eat themselves. The newsboy on the train sold one loaf ot bread at 10 cents a .slice, and made s2 out ot the loat." Sevcial hundied passen^eis leaehud Long Jshuid City this moininff. They weie forty-eight/ lioin> en louto tiom koekaway. The -.treets aie still bloekadcd. r r\\enty funerals en unite to Calvary Cemetery were stuck in tlic snovvdiitt.s on Borden Avenue. The corpses had to be taken into the houses n'eai by over night. Some of the mourners, the drivers and hor.se- had to he dv' 1 ' out. They were neatly iro/en to death. One hotel yesterday paid 50 eent.sa quart for the lii.sl/ fifty gallons of milk a dealer had. Two thousand business men fioni Molt Haven Avete .snowed in near Pelhamville, a .suburb of New Yoik, hi nee yesterday morning. O\cr 500 bodies in New \ oik and 150 lin l>i ooklyn await buiial Cat riagos c.in t ' reach the cemelerieh. Tliose who died ol

coMluLjiout-. di.soascs -\\eie taken to the ' cemoteiies in •-leijih^. So\or<il heaisos that j attempted to force their way to I he leceiv inn* \aulls had to he abandoned. The. ho7 ">("-, dinei.- and mourners barely es ciped alive. ,St. \ll;\^^ \N- ■ ) < <l niunboi ot Ihe meinbei,-. ot 1 he Sla( c Lt <;i-l.it m c who lia\ u , been -now lioiind ncai SdieneeUuly anived i to d.i\ The whole eiowd oi LegislaLoi pl.iM'd ]>okei toi thiiiv m \ lioiu -. without/ sleej) I'ies coM >^\ apuei, miiiluulii^ 50 eenl^. A liot tle ot Ikjuoi \\ ■!- <it ,un t-ion on the li ain and brouuhl. "-50