The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-15
Indignation Meeting.

We understand LnaC meeting OF the pas
sengers on the Evansville and Charlottesville
Railroad was held at the Prairie House on the
night before last to give expression to their
''pent up feelings, in consequence of the train
not having made the usual connections with
the cars going east.
Before persons should thus suffer themselves
to bile over about things that no one can help,
they had better undertake to moderate the
weather and keep the water from freezing that
is used in making the steam that shoves the
iron horse along. 1t seems strange to US that
when it is so difficult to keep everything else
from turning to an icicle, that these gentlemen
should allow the mercury of their compost
tons to run up to blood heat about 2 matter
that they could not themselves have helped,
even though they had all been engineers, and
running the locomotive; and we are the more
surprised at this unusual demonstration in
our quiet city, from the fact that these gentle
men were stopping at the Terre Haute Houses,
better quarters than which can be found no
where in the State, and certainly not in the
'dry diggings," to which from appearances,
some of the indignants were journeying. Keep
cool! gentlemen, keep COOL 1srre Haae Er.
We are sorry the names of the gentlemen
who held this Indignation meeting" have not
been given to the world We should like to
understand Just who these numbskulls are,
whose brains have evidently been so badly
frostbitten. If they had held a complimentary
meeting, and expressed their admiration of the
indefatigable efforts made at the very risk of
their lives, by those connected with the par
ticular train of cars in which they were pas
sengers, and by which eff RS these passengers
were saved from spending night exposed to
the bitterest cold of severe winter-they
would have exhibited more sound sense and
more gentlemanly characteristics. The facts
are about as follows One Of the coolest nights
of last week, when the train of cars containing
nearly two hundred passengers, had reached a
station some ten or twelve miles from Terre
Haute, going up, the water of the tank was
found frozen, and the pumps of the locomotive
in the same condition. A messenger was at
once dispatched to Terre Haute to obtain a
relief locomotive. In the meantime all hands
were at work trying to relieve the frozen loco
motive and obtain water. The driver of tie
locomotive, got under it with torch to thaw
out some part Of the machinery. He was
frozen stiff in a sqaatting position, and IN that
position was found and carried away to be
tha,Oed ont, still doubled up in bunch Had
he have remained a short time longer, his life
would have been forfeited Nearly every man
employed ON the train was more or less frost
bitten They did all that men could do to
relieve the train, and this the passengers could
well have seen had they felt disposed to leave
the stoves of the cars. The relief locomotive
arrived in due time, and the train proceeded
to Terre Haute.
Now had these passengers been in train on
almost any other road in the country that
night, they would have had almost equal
cause of complaint. Trains every where
were delayed and IN our exchanges of yester-
day, accounts are given of train after train on
almost every Eastern road, having been stop
ped for hours by the snow and cold, the early
part of last week. On our road some half a
dozen locomotives have been entirely disabled
We repeat it, we should like to see the names
of the gentlemen who held this indignation
meeting to know just who were the particular
asses of the occasion.