El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-11
FORCED TO SYMPATHY.

A Railroad Man Who Says That it
is Against His Religion to Put
Tramp Off His Train-Had Been
There Himself.
Standing in group OF railroad men
yesterday near the southern racine
depot VAS an Individual whose appear
apce would Indicate that HE age was
well On 20 four aud forty. He was lis
teniug atteptively to The members OF
the group condemniug the side-door
tourists and the exciting experiences
they had on several OCCASIONS IN gett-
Jag them to vacat, the Dox cars. One
OF them went on I'd tell bout a oltter
cold night TWO months ago when the
train o.. which he was braking became
stalled on Dragon Summit,
which is situated at a high point
between Tucson, ATlZ., and Lordsourg,
N M He said thai ne concluded that
this would be good time to get even
with some of tdem and he went over
the train searching the cars. He fin
ally struck su empty box Ger ADD
pushed the door open. Upon intestiga
Jion he discovered fifteen tramps
stretched out 10 one corner OF the car.
s.This find afforded me sn opportunity
which was too good to overlook. ne
said, with apparent satisfaction, land
I ordered them to vacate atthe point OF
revolver. They pleaded long and
loud but made them pile out into the
snow in u hurry as IL was a bitter colo
night and I was anxious to get back to
the heat of the boilerhead. There was
no wood n sight with which they could
build d fire and whatever become OF
them [ don't know, and the best OF 1t
is, l don't care"
All this time the old man was list
ening very auueutively and when ask
ed to express himself on the Cum"
nuisance he said:
81 entertain the greatest sympathy
for any man in distress, and while
there are those among the size door
tour'sts,s as you call them, who are un-
worthy t assistance | assure you there
are many who are worthy of aid from
all who can possibly help them. [ am
speaking now from experience. A year
ago this winter / was 10 Colorado al
most dead with reumatism. L was ad-
vised by the physicians to come to this
portion of the country Or l would not
lie through the winter. l bad but
very little money but L
concluded that 1 would come
through the best l could. 1 entered
the frs5 southbound boxcar and was
more then pleased when the engine
shrieked for leaving time. think
they took water about eight miles
L
the train stopped the brakeman helped
me CUT of the car and left me there
suffering untold sgories il the pierre
lug north wind. All my pleadiugs
amounted 10 nothing. [ remained
there five hours and another train
came along. With the assistance OF
another man L managed to get into
box car and rode to a small town and
here | was di5ched again. L anaged
there
at point between Las
Vegas and Albuquerque l was again
side tracked. There l met a man
bordering Ga the last stsges of COZ
SUMPTION He was almost frozen to
death. He told he was trying TO get
to albuquerque and That he had been
put of .t that siding. There we were.
b was about eaten ~ - = ump-
ton. [ was the stronger CT the two
aad concluded that [ would not leav=
hiEr. After waiting several hours a
train zane along and | went to the
Conductor aud told him our condition.
He refused 10 carry us but told me that
tner- was telegraph station two
miles south and, possibly, we could get
assis aGce there, and soon afterwards
his train disappeared in the dis
tsnce leaving Us cold, hungry
ana within snort ways
of deaths relentless grasp. [ walked
the Two miles and informed the opera
tor of the conditions and fell to the
door in faint. News was sent to a
farmer close by and he hitcbed up his
Team aud brought the sick man to the
station. They made up purse and
when the passenger train came along
we were both taken to Albuquerque
where we were we'll cared for. The
consumptive died few days after our
arrival there from the exposure which
he was subjected to along the line, but
I continued to improve ana can now
BPS; OF being as well as ever. Some
how or other since that experience |
cannot. conscienciously put man off
the train of which l have charge
AS strange as it may seem the man
who had told of his heartless actions on
Dragon Summit that cold night did
not wait until The old man hid finished
re.ating his experience but stole quiet
~ away.
n and D. 6 Election.