Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-03-17
HUMAN FREIGHT
SEALED IN CAR
Terrifying Experience OF Two
UnlOrtunales In "Slde
Door" Pullman.
RfLFAstO HERE LAST NIGHT


Imprisoned ln q hux car OBJ r ifanH-
continental railroad Route ls about as
Dismal g situation as n person ie us
uaily called upon tn iace n this iiie
or upH ana downs lohh ~ Callahan
ana John Harnatf. az present doing
tiWe in the Albuquerque city prison
underwent the painful ordeal such an
incarceration produces
aalhe hundreds OF other unforinnatos
who have been iufed to fhc west hy
hnhou employment bureaus fNaFrrr
hiea reports and unmltaafed liars.
Who pictured fai Jobs. golden paved
streets and barrels % money waiting
Tor some one % knock the hcal l6
and help themselves. callahan ana
iafnaN iuuhd thcmariFra q few daya
ago, abuut pennlleas, no work. ln sight
and home some hundreds Oh miles
away u was un go them fa move
This was an indiapuiahlo snci. Il took
money % travel on the cushions. hui
only nerve 90 ride freight trains Hav.
ms q more liberal supply Of the letter
than coin, Callahan and Harnstt
eiiWfef into an empty box car ! Few
hundred miles up the Santa Fe line.
west Of here and we've shortly aifcI-
wards humping eastward ln liVay
fanhion. The splfiis 81 the men were
hunynnt IN spite OF their forrowfui
financial straits. until az one ~ the
stops made, Callahan ana ilnrumit
from the corncra they sqaeeaea ihtm-
solves H. bencld 3 shipmont " uicRe.
etc. thrown Into lhnif "sido door
Pullman, saw b0lh doors af their
coach closed vita q hanr. and so-
cured from Che outside fntF eN-
changed alarmed looks. when. from
conversation which took place pus
side, d was learned that the ear had
been sealed The train again moved
along. Both men soliloauised mourn
fully. They were prisoners. con
signmcnt Of human freight houna
they knew not where. Maybe Boston
probably New York. These we're hor-
rifyinE Thoughts, because there was
not q morsai Of food or aip ~ water
In the car AZ the stop to fellows
tried 90 attract the attention 81 =
party passing By the car flo np-
parentiy looked AZ tho car, noticed q
was sealed. concluded BE- had them.
and continued on, for both doors res
malned a. they wcrc-iOckcd
x ialoia. about discouraged OF ever
being liberated. the prisoners again
tried 60 attract the Rltention al u
passer-hy They Kicked on the car
side and yelled u CHANGED % 81 toe
conductor cf the freight who was
passing az the time. and he vas "a
greatly mystlfled man upon learning
that he had been carrying gratis paa-
Hengcra IN q car where she seals on
both doors were Intact when the
conductor Informed the men h. would
not liberate them, and walked un,
their hopes were crushed. starvation
stared them IN the face When the
train pulled into this city, last night
40 about 1870 o'clock. and the duog
WAS open. they know the wors. was
not 90 happen. Special OMcer Gray
ana the conductor waited for The men
20 come out 0i their prison ThCy
were arrested, brf This seemed eoOt.
compared with their recent predlca-
mont They ploeded guilty % the va
srancy charge 90 police court, this
and were sentenced 90 ZEN
days each Oh the streets This ava
non strike the men a. being $50 'aw-
fnl." either There was something tn
cat and drink in slight bu that box
ear cyperieuce--yos. the chain gaas
was paradise t0 ill