Each arriving train added to the congestion, until the building between the tracks and the gangway was crowded with anxious commuters.

" A nervous commuter on his dark, lonely way home from the railroad station heard footsteps behind him.

In the wee, small hours of the morning a weary commuter, numb from the cold and the cramped position in which he had tried to sleep, crawled out of the train and floundered through the heavy snow-drifts to the nearest telegraph station.