Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-22

Kansas City Times, 14tl.
The great tide Of travel into Kansas con-
tinues, aud during the twenty-four hours
ending yesterday at noon. $500 Immigrants
arrived at the Union depot in this city, en-
route to Kansas, there to seek homes along
the lines of the different railways. Last
season they came By families, by sections,
and by hundreds; but this year it is by
thousands that they empty themselves from
the cars at the depot, and at once take seats
10 the westward bound trains. The various
roads had calculated upon a heavy travel
this season, and their anticipations have
been more than verified, as during the past
two weeks, it has been no small matter to
furnish cars in which to transport the thous-
ands who have gone west, and the superin-
tendents of the roads have been compelled
to borrow from eastern lines in order to &C.
commodate the public. Every extra car
that could be spared has been pressed into
service, and the shops have been running
night and day in getting things ready for
yesterdays rush. 1t began in reality on
Wednesday, when over one thousand per-
sons arrived, but yesterday this number was
more than doubled. The first train was the
first section of the North Missouri. with
nine coaches, and right behind it came the
Missouri Pacific with seven. Then the Chi
cago & Alton and Hannibal Il St. Joseph
trains pulled up. and for two hours
the crush about the depot platform was
unprecedented. At II o'clock the second
section of the north Missouri arrived and
at IL 80 the second section of the Missouri
Pacific, 10 charge Of Charlie Gallagher. Ia
the mean time both the Kansas Pacific and
Atchinsop, Topeka Il Santa Fee roads had
ls,nnHahA5 th1;u v,rv,.lo ro;- s.. A. 80
the first with eight coaches, and the latter
extra trains on the K. c., Fl. Scott & Gulf
and the K. G., L. s. Southern were also
crowded, and it is estimated that oyer
twenty-five hundred people were transferred
at the depot between 10 o'clock 9. m. and
10 80 p. ID. Extra men were on hand to
handle the baggage, and the
way they hustled it about was
a caution. The western trains
found it impossible to carry it all on their
train, aud over two hundred pieces
were left behind by the Santa Fc, which
went west last night. The majority of the
travellers were well-to-do farmers from the
states. and q colony of 600 came
in frem Harrisburg, Pa, In charge of Harry
Hall, of the Vandalia road, over which
they came to ST. Louis. These immigrants
were from what is known as the middle di.
vision of the Pennsylvania company, and
were started for the west by MIR. j. K.
Shoemaker, passenger agent of that section
of the road, who has his headquarters at
Harrisburg. Last year he sent thousands
of people to Kansas, and it will be remem-
bered they came clear through in special
cars of the Pennsylvania company to Kan
sas city, from which point they were ship.
ped westward. The road sent them in
their own cars in order that the trouble
about changing might be done away with,
which was a great convenience, especially
to the women and children. 1t is under.
stood the few who came yesterday are sim
ply the advance guard of an army soon to
follow, and the special trains OF. Pennsyl-
vania cars will be again seen at the Union
depot before May let.