The Washington herald., 1910-06-25
TWO LITTLE GIRLS
In CAR THREE DAYS
Found Cried Out on Buffalo
Freight i'll HOboken.
ONE DAzED; ONE UNCONSCIOUS
Prank of Boys Who Locked Them
In Dark Refrigerator After Tell
nanas Nearly Cost Lives of Mary
Moni and NeIsie de FOrke.

New York, June 2s,-Tyo little girls who
were penned in q pitch-dark refrigerator
ear by mischievous boys were found lying
in the car when it reached Hoboken from
Buffalo. II was some time before they
could speak, They had been p hours
without food or drink or sufficient air.
Mary Mcni is ten and Nelsie de Forke
is eight. Both live at q Indiana street.
Buffalo. They are but single units in
multiple families They used every day
TO run around the Laekswanna freight
yard, near Columbia street, and had a
good deal of fun jumping about cars.
Boys of their age and Older hung around
the freight yards. Last Thursday morn
ing a couple Of these boys whom they
knew by sight. not by name, shouted out
to the girls:
Deceived by PIaymafes.
Hey. there's bananas in that car
Want some bananas? Back In that car
you'll find some. Gwan in"
It was an empty refrigerator car to
which the boys pointed. The two girls
clambered In. and with aHticipstory ex-
citement began poking over the floor in
the dark corners. They heard the heavy
door bang to and found themselves n
blackness. They rushed for the door and
pounded on it. They could hear the boys
outside laughing The boys made no at
tempt to open the car door and the girls
got frightened. They screamed and
kicked. Pretty soon they heard the
voices Of the boys. and knew them to
be trying to open the door. 1t never
budged.
Then they heard an engine putting.
Bang Mary was bumped to the floor.
There was an interval of several minutes.
Then the engine chugged. the car gave a
Jerk, and In the darkness they knew
themselves to be moving. Nelsie was
still IN heap on the floor. sobbing.
Sit I'm Corner and Cry.
As her eyes grew accustomed TO the
dark, Mary discerned a streak Of golden
light coming from crack in the cars
roof. 1t was inconceivably small and
slinder. but 1t was light She called
Nelsie's attention to it. The two girls
sat bolt upright in the corner now,
silently staring at the beam of light and
crying.
After a long time they felt hollow and
hungry. Mary explored the floor of the
car. 1t was slow work in the dark and
the jolting made It harder. Neisie helped
some in the search. They found nothing
at all. The two girls knew they were
TO be without food or water Besides Il
was SO hot and sitting they found it
labor TO breathe and they lay perfectly
still, and in time the first faintness of
hunger left them. But IL was intolerably
hot and their thirst grew.
1t was night now. The beam Of light
was gone. Yet neither girl slept.
Parents Appeal TO Police.
AT length after long hours the beam of
light reappeared. All day Wednesday
the two lay motionless on the floor of the
car. Then night came on. It is possible
the girls slept ftfulIy. though they could
not recollect having done so. Thursday
morning found them a little weaker.
Then came Thursday night
But when the two girls didn't come
home on Tuesday night. their parents had
gone anxiously to the police. Some were
found who had seen the children in the
freight yard foTaging. F. II. c. Schofrel,
chief special agent OF the Laekawanna,