. . . on the M & M. RR., reached here yesterday morning between 1 & 2 o’clock. The afternoon train caught up with the morning train at Wilton and the two tugged away through the snow, sending a man with a torch a mile ahead to show the way, till they arrived as above stated. About a dozen of the passengers, recruits for Capt. Turner’s Muscatine Company in the 16th regiment, footed it in from Wilton. No connection was made at Iowa City, yesterday, for the same cause – the great amount of snow on the track. For the present there will be only one train a day on this road.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 21, 1862, p. 1
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