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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