Sunday, June 3, 2012

M. & M. R. R.


The trains on this road are approaching to regularity again.  The western train arrived on time last night, and brought us a mail from Des Moines – the first this week. – The train which left here Wednesday afternoon when forty-five miles out, overtook the one that started the day before, to which the mail matter was transferred, and the other train returned to town.  Mr. Remington, mail agent on the latter, informs us that they went down on the branch, and got within three miles of an upward bound train, fast in the snow drift; and there was another train behind that, which was also unable to move on.  The Davenport train forced its way through snow piled up high as the top of the cars, and it was almost impossible to see any distance ahead.  The road is open from Muscatine to Washington, and the cars are running regularly. – {Davenport Gazette, 7th.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 1

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