Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-31
AT TRUCKEE.

Passengers and Citizens Indignant Over
Slanderous "Chronicle" Reports.
From the RECORD UNION Special Correspondent.
TRUcKEE, January 30th.-The charge of
severe treatment of passengers at this point
by the railroad company, as sent to the
Chronicle by self-constituted committee,
signing themselves Mcdonald, Levy and
Hogan, is meeting with severe condemna-
ton from the citizens kere and all con.
versant with the facts.
The statement that passengers were with
out food and were refused food, is false in
every particular. So is almost every other
charge made.
On the day of the arrival of the snow
bound train, Superintendent Whitehead, of
the Truckee Division, supplied every man,
woman and child on the train, who re-
quired assistance, with meals at the leading
hotel free of charge. The next day Super
intendent Wright wired the agent to pro-
vide for all, regardless of cost, requiring
aid.
The girl said to have been starved for
two days, was taken charge of on the first
day, and ever since, by Conductor Trembly
The next charge, that not a single
officer has visited the train, will
be disposed of as follows: Superintendent
Whitehead has gone through the train a
number of times distributing the papers
brought by him from Reno. The con-
ductor and brakeman were there at all
hours of the day, and the porters con-
stantly. The facts concerning the Pullman
car passengers are as follows:
Eight passengers who were transferred
to another car did not like their berths.
Whitehead gave his own room at the hotel
to E. Woodruff, wife and child, and then
provided for three more in the drawing
room. The remaining two were given
berths, which were accepted without COM
plant. Before the transfer of the psssen-
gers to the other car each were offered by
and accepted from the railroad company
drawback checks, emitting them to q re-
bate on accommodations in the other car
The charge that the sanitary condition
of the cars was bad is untrue. The state
ment that a lady died with diphtheria, and
that others had since been taken with the
disease in different parts of the train, has
not the remotest grain of truth.
The doctors are not agreed upon the
causes which led to the death of the I'M
fortunate lady who died at the hotel some
days ago. There has not been a single
case of diphtheris on board either train,
and the report of an epidemic has no
foundation whatever.
This morning your reporter went through
the entire train and found large majority
of the passengers remarkably happy and
contented, taking their surroundings into
consideration. There was not the least
evidence of suffering, and none since the
blockade.
The statement published on the same
date January 2sth) in the San Francisco
Chronicle, which was sent from Reno, that
two carloads of provisions had been
shipped from the latter place for starving
Truckee passengers, has been denied by
every merchant and passenger in the town.
Eggs are the only thing they are out of,
while sugar is beginning to get scarce.
All other supplies are abundant.
When your reporter showed the passen-
gers and citizens the article referred to
they concluded that the boss of sensa-
itonal liars had got his work in well.