Midland-Toronto train snowbound.

If anyone doubted the fact that the real old-fashioned winter was here, a trip on the Toronto train from Midland on Tuesday morning would have provided first-hand evidence of the fact. The train left Midland on time and encountered a lot of snow drifts all the way to Orillia, when it became wedged into an immense drift, wherein it stuck fast. All attempts by the big engine to move the cars proved fruitless, and it was found necessary to uncouple the coaches and dig the snow drifts from each one separately. The train arrived at Barrie about 9 o'clock, just one hour late. The engine had every appearance of having come through an avalanche. Snow, snow—all over it, and the cars were covered with it unto the windows. The storm caught the officials rather unawares, and only two snow-plows remained in the yards to cope with the severe blizzard. The first plow went out on Tuesday morning, in charge of Passenger Trainmaster Little.

Railways: G.T.Ry.

Stations: Barrie, Midland, Orillia

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