The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-26
REFUGEES STILL
COMING TO zion
Railroads Are Shooting Them
Through TO the East by
the Hundreds.
ALL ARE "FREE AND EQUAL"
MILLIONAIRE. AND BOOT8LACK
MEET ON COMMON GROUND.

Hundreds OF refugees from San
Francisco are passing through Ogden
hourly, and a large number of these
are coming to Salt Lake en- route TO
Colorado and eastern points via Den
Yer. The Rio Grande is handling all
passengers destined for Denver and
other Colorado points.
Nearly $50 destitute persons passed
through Salt Lake yesterday. Two
special trains brought the refugees to
Salt Lake, one arriving at o'clock in
the afternoon and the other at s o'clock
In the evening. The first section was
switched on sidetracks to await the ar
rival Of the later train. These were
made into one train and sent ahead to
wards Denver shortly after o'clock.
The passengers on these Two sections
seemed to have met with less hardship
than the hundreds who have already
gone through With the exception OF
two families of Italians yesterdays
passengers were Americans.
Same Familiar Scenes.
The same family groups huddIed be-
tween two chairs, the same crying In
fants and laughing, rompinS children,
the same pale but smiling faces along
each side of the car aisle, the same ar
ray Of bird and parrot cages, The same
display of empty milk bottles and rem
nantS OF meals, enjoyed while the train
was speeding from the devastated city
all these signs associated with and a
part of a crowd of refugees were tC be
seen on the two sections which pulled
through here yesterday.
One woman was lying quietly on a
bed made between two chairs Her COL
orless cheeks and drawn lips were
mute evidence of pain and suffering
When some, passing through the car,
stopped at her side to ask her if she
cared for a drink of water she shook
her head in the negative. When told
a large portion of the distance between
San Francisco and Denver had been
left behind, she smiled and whispered
softly, I'm glad!'
italian Woman Soothes Child.
An Italian woman paced Up and
down the car aisle singing a quaint
lullaby to the infant in her arms. The
husband was washing the older child
a 6-year-old girl, at the water can at
the end of the car. An old woman sat
knitting in one corner. How or where
she got her needles and yarn might
De story, but the dear old soul looked
so cOntented and occupied that no enc
bothered her with questions.
Young men sat on the car steps and
smoked. Women gathered in groups
and struck up short acquaintances.
Formal introductions are not f04 the
refugees. These people, homeless,
InOneyleSS and almost clotheless f;Td
in their conditions a key to each others
heart. The millionaire talks with his
former bootblack as they sit together
In the crowded, stUffy car
Never was our Declaration Of InGe-
pendence, when it said "aH men are
created free and equal" so impressfve
as 1t Is to the bystander- who walks
through the long line of cars loaded
with fleeing refugees and sees on ali
sides men of wealth a week ago nib
ping on crackers distributed among
them as meat is divided among Gagged
animals.
Several hundred have passed through
Salt Lake, but the heaviest travel for
any one day may be reached today. I,o-
cal ofhclals of the Rio Grande expect
nearly 200 passengers on two specials
which will arrive here during the aft
ernOOn and evening. These refugees
are bound for points in middle western
states.