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.

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
wrongfully 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
Truckee The company acted toward the
passengers In a 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 number of able
bodled young men, who might If thew
wished, have come on with his CCorbetts)
parry in which were Lieutenant Blow and
Ensign James U. S. n and others, and
who rode on snow plows 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 cOncoet stolies 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 necessaries Of life without diff
Guilty
Helen Tyndale, of the same dramatic
company, said that the detention was very
tiresome, but there were no actual hard |
ships. The railroad company did every |
thing in its power to make the people cozl- !
Portable. The passengers were treated with |
great consideration.
E. E. Waugh, a merchant of Denver, was
on the first detained train at Truckee. He I
said We did not suffer particularly and I
had plenty to eat, stopping at hotel there
all the time. Oar dissppointments were
innumerable, as we were looking TO get
away every day. The company was doing
all it could to get Us out and tried 10 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
I'VE were all doubled up there in Reno,
and there were many complaints III conse-
quence. Resolutions were passed that re-
hected upon the management. Now / have
Travelled a 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 l noticed an occasion where
the authorities were less to blame There
was no suffering at all. At 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-
manned 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 stay
the storm no more than the Captain of
Cunard steamer hold down the waves OF
the impetuous Atlantic
Then the snow did not wreck the sppe- |
tites of the combination? n
BY no MEANS" exclaimed all the ladies |
in chorus. 1--WE ate everything in sight" |
G, G. 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 will be Given by Several |
Passengers from the Blockaded Trains.
LE5ERDEMAIN,
THE PERFORMANCE WILL BE BAD But FUNNY.
There ,riR be no Jokes IN 9rhich SRoiC occurs.
The idea is to pass pleasant hour.
c. C. MeDoNAID.. Manager
There viii be no stage)
LOUIS Leader OF Orchestra
There will be no orchestral
n. J. LEvEY .... Manager
p,.,.s-,,v .(No gas so.r,o Artist
NO scenery
A. NJ. BEEcHER Property Man
Busted
E. f. Waugh..................... hographer
In the San Francisco Bulletin of last
evening also appeared a number of state
W. NJ. Neville of Bozeman, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Bozemsn Electric Light
Company, said the railroad company did
all in its power to make the passengers
comfortable. The latter did hold meetings
and sent dispatches to the railroad people,
but that was to have been expected from q
lot of people cooped up in a limited space,
and with no signs of an early delivery. He
was as impatient as any of them, but now
lRNl5 haaH thu az with soft.
ened feelings and was satisfied all was
done that could be accomplished to break
the blockade. As the train came on through
the great cuts in the snow they could see
what q vast amount of work had been done
to open the road. There was food enough
for all, but there was complaint that it was
not plentiful. The midget" died of
Quinsy, superinduced by tonsilitis. The
air in the cars was not that of the best sani-
tary condition. There was one French
girl who did not make her wants known
and she went hungry until some one spoke
to her in French, when she told that she
needed food and it was at once supplied.
P, E. Record, who was detained at Reno,
said: 81 was royalty treated while l was
there Our food was good and plentiful,
and, as the railroad company was paying
the bills, i believe some of the passengers
ate as they had never eaten before. Our
sleeping quarters were of necessity cramped.
In fact, l never yet saw bed on railroad
train or g steamer that was quite as COM
Portable as one at home or in irst-class
hotel, but outside of this l do not believe
there was a passenger at Reno who had
cause to complain. There we're grumblers
on the train, but some men will grumble
under the most favorable condition Of az
fairs. give the railroad company great
credit for the work it has done in raising
the blockade You may think you have an
idea of the snow-drifts and the labor in
volved i'll clearing the tracks, butyou would
have to be at the scene OF action to have it
fully impressed on your mind"
r Meehan. Superintendent of the