The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-05-11
HAD CLOSE CALL.
Young Boy Locked in Car Without
Food or Drink Four Days.

When freight handlers employed
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
in the Communipaw yards at New
York unlocked a car loaded with
sacks of flour Wednesday evening,
an unconscious boy fell through the
open doors to the ground.
The freight handlers carried the
boy to the police station and after
water had been poured between his
clenched teeth, he opened his eyes
and began to cry. A doctor said he
was suffering from thirst and starva-
tion.
For time the boys condition was
so serious that it was feared he
would die. His mouth and throat
were filed with dry -four, and his
tongue was swollen. The boy re-
yived almost Immediately after Wa
ter was given him, and begged and
pleaded for more, but under orders
from a doctor only small quantity
was given him at time.
- AS his strength began returning
the boy begged for food, declaring
he was starving. After more than an
hour he was strong enough to tell
his story.
sI have no idea how long l was
DID," he began, "and 1 live at NO.
1884 East Forty-seventh- street,
cleveland, Ohio. I was employed by
the Henkel Flour Company in Cleve-
land, and last Thursday I was sent
to a car to check off the number of
-four bags that were to be shipped.
Il was checking off the bags with the
door open, when suddenly a brake
man came along and shut the door
and locked it.
sI pounded and screamed to be
let 'out, but the man did not come
back. I felt the car moving and
screamed until I lost all power to
make a noise, and then 1 pounded on
the door.
ttI have no idea how long I was
in the car. I got so hungry 1 was
weak. Il broke into sack OF flour
and took great mouthfuls of it. Then
i got thirsty and the more -four ate
.'sIt began to rain. l could hear
the water falling off the car, and
Ii took my handkerchief and stuck
it through crack in the door. When
the handkerchief got wet 1 would
drag it back and moisten my lips.
sAs long as it rained I kept my hand
kerchief out of the crack.
.''To get my handkerchief back
through the crack in the door al
ways squeezed most of the water
from it, but managed to get few
drops. / did this all the time it
was raining on Friday, Friday night
and Saturday, but the -four made
me thirstier, Sand l was so hungry l
had to eat something. When the
rain stopped | found my mouth and
throat so parched that l couldn't
speak, much less, cry out. l was SIM
pIy choking to death.
& + Whenever the train stopped
:would beat at the door, but some
low my car always was far away
from the station or where there was
a sw:tchman or brakeman.
Il could see through the crack in
the door when we got to stations.
AT Baltimore I managed to attract
the attention of a man and he stop
ped at my car. I tried to speak to
him but couldn't, I was so thirsty,
and he passed on, thinking some cat
tie were in the car.
sI don't remember much after
that. I just lay down on the -four
sacks and got ready to die. can't
remember anything more until I got
here"
The Jersey City police got into
with Cleveland, and
learned that young Golden had been
reported as missing from home. An
of the -four sacks show
ed that one of them had been brok-
en- open.
81 The boy was taken to the Oakland
avenue police station for the night.
Doctors who examined him said he
would recover, but that had he stay
ed inothe car another day he would
have died from thirst. When he is
strong enough he will be sent home.
Alleges Corruption.