Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-31
THE FL1GHTaFRom MEMPHIS.


Extraordinarily Passengers.
louisville Courier-J Journal.
Probably no epidemic or consequence of
war ever produced greater excitement for the
number of people concerned, or witnessed a
moro outrageous scene than thatat the depot
at Memphis Sunday morning, when the train
left there at 8 o'clock that morning, and
which only reached here yesterday between
~ M. and P. NJ. The majority of the
frightened humanity on that train were wo-
men and children, many of whom had no
protectors to guard and care for them-wo-
men with young babes at the breast.
others whose great age made it seem
a mockery to flee from death, yet they were
there, and were so unfortunate as to be herd
ed (for no other word expresses the moaning
SO welD with q set of male dogs in human
guise, who drank vile liquors and smoked
mean cigars, and pulled the smoke in the
faces of delicate ladies: and, not conte MT
with that, drew from the spacious pockets
of their busters those emblems of hell and
low life, playing cards, formed games for
money, and, as natural consequences.
began cursing and Disappearing
in manner that would shock the
most foully raised vagabond. No
word was too vulgar to be checked upon the
lips of those foul-mouthed rufians I will
add that even this was bearable compared
with the brutal cona uct of some of those
things-for they could not appropriately be
called men-ln occupying double share of
room, while poor, weak ladies, for such thew
are. were forced to stand in those ioltinp
cars as best they could, many of them with
little ones in their arms, until the train
reached Marian. Many of these ladies. weak
and exhausted, sank to the floor amid all the
filth and dirt. Added to this there was no wa
ter, and no one in authority seemed to
make any attempt to provide it. Very few
had anything to eat, nor could they get it
for any price until they reached this CITY.
having then been more than twenty-eight
hours in this suspense and misery. Ladies.
who at home have carriages and all that
wealth can command, were glad to find q
seat on the steps of the Car platform, and
many were for hours forced to remain in
such fearful danger. A Southern man
should blush to know that, even to
save his own lite, he should be
guilty of such inhumanity to a
woman. take great pride in saying that
there were few men on that train who did
ali in their power to alleviate the sufferinps
" tno women anu c0llQreu. OQ0 Young
man in particular, whose name regret I
did not learn, observed brute dispossess
some little children of seat they had from
the first occupied. He stepped forward.
and, by welLdirected blow, hurled the
scoundrel out of the place he had usurped
and restored the little ones. Probably the
railroad officers in charge of the train did
all they could, but that is questionable. Not
half the passengers secured checks for bag
gage. Many who did, did SO by paying the
baggage man heavily.
"Our passage was q long one, lasting more
than sixty days. We arrived here on the Sd
OF July. We at once went before Commits
sioner Duncan. He was seafarinp man
himself, and understood it at once that We
were in the right and awarded us damages,
the captain agreeing to pay them within seven
days. was awarded $125, johnson 300.
Lyman $65, Whitman $50 and Wick 1875.
But attervard the captln objected and re-
fused to pay
This statement was corroborated by all
the other seamen, and warrant was imme-
diately issued for the arrest of Capt. Merri-
man. It was placed in the hands Of Deputy
Marshals Miller and Harvey, to be served at
their discretion. S