Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-01
SKOWBOUND PASSENGERS.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THEIR LATE
EXPERIENCES.
Enthusiastic in Their Praise of the Rail-
road Company and Its Treat
ment of Them.

The snow blockade on the Central Paci-
fic having been broken, several trains
reached San Francisco early yesterday, and
the evening papers of that city interviewed
large number of the snow bound passen-
gers. In the Post of last evening appeared
some extended statements, from which we
make the following extracts:
Frank Corbett, of Butte City, Montana.
said he was in no way obligated to the rail
road company. He declared with empha-
sis That the railroad company has been
wrongfnlly accused of unfair treatment to
its passengers. The railroad company has
done everything in its power TO make the
unfortunate snowbound passengers COM
Portable, and my statements will be corrob-
GRATED by the passengers who have suffered
the worst experience. At Reno and
Iruckee The company acted toward the
passengers in most commendable man.
ner. The Pullman company caused some
complaint by taking up berth checks and
promising other berths that could not be
had. He added that the complaints at
Iruckee came from a number of able
bodied young men, who might, if they
wished, have come On with his CCorbett's)
party, in which were Lieutenant Blow and
Ensign James, U. S. n and others, and
who rode on STOW piows and footed it over
bad places, and thus caught an advance
mail train. and so reached San Francisco.
But these young men preferred to sit about
the stoves and coBcoet stones that the rail-
road company was holding back the trains
for political effect
Joseph Holland, Of the Shenandoah
Company, said to the reporters that there
was no suffering among the passengers on
his train worth speaking Of. They pro-
cured the neeessaries Of life without diff
Guilty.
Helen TyndaIe, of the same dramatic
company, said that the detention was very
tiresome, bat there were no actual hard
ships. The railroad company did every
thing in its power to make the people com.
Portable. The passengers were treated with
great consideration.
E. E. Waugh, a merchant of Denver, was
on the first detained train at Truckee. He
said We did not suffer particularly and
had plenty to eat, stopping at hotel there
all the time. Our disappointments were
innumerable, as we were looking to get
away every day. The company was doing |
all 1t could to get Us out and tried to en-
courage US by telling US the blockade would |
certainly be raised in the next tWenty-four /
hours. They confidently believed it, no
doubt, but the constant recurrence of
storms and the drifting Of snow was too |
much for human hands to contend with |
Alexander Gum, of New York, was de- |
tanned on one of the Reno trains He said |
We were all doubled up there in Reno, |
and there were many complaints in conse- |
quence. Resolutions were passed that re-
Elected upon the management. Now | have |
travelled great deal and have visited |
nearly every part Of the world, and have
been caught in many bad boxes but never |
in my life have 1 noticed an occasion where |
the authorities were less to blame. There |
was no suffering at sill. AZ least none |
came under my personal observation. |
There was plenty of food and no sickness,
beyond colds. The road has been OPEN |
from Reno to Truckee all along, but we re-
NAMED at Reno because the accommoda- |
tons were better"
Miss Maud Monroe of the Shenandoah" |
Company, speaking for herself and two |
other ladies with her, said the detention |
was wearisome, OF course, but there was no |
reason for complaints.
Then you have no complaint to make |
against the company
Heavens the company could not stav |
the storm no more than the Captain of |
Cunard steamer hold down the waves of |
heimpetuous Atlantic
Then the snow did not wreck the appe-
tites of the combination ?"
by no means, exclaimed all the ladies |
in chorus. I'VE ate everything in sight
G. c. Mcdonald, manager of The Midg- |
ct party told of the detention at Truckee |
and of the death of the Midget, and of Mrs. /
McVean, and of the sickness of some of
the people and of the resorts of the passen.
gers to amuse themselves. One Of these
devices was an entertainment at the Whit
ney House, Truckee, the head of the pro-
gramme reading
An Entertainment VIII be Given by Several
Passengers from the Blockaded Trains.
LE5ERDEMAIN,
SONGS