Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1911-05-04
HAD CLOSE CALL
A Young Boy Locked Up in a Car With
out Food or Drink Four Days
SAVED IN NICK OF time
He Was senseless When the Door Of
the Car Was Opened.-Had Eaten
Flour Found in a Sack, and His
Only Drink Was Rain He Caught
Through the Cracks.


When freight handlers employed
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
In the Communipaw yards at New
York unlocked q car loaded with
sacks of flour Wednesday evening, an
unconscious boy fell through the OPP
en- 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 a time the boys condition was
so serious that 1t was feared he
would die. His mouth and throat
were filled with dry flour. 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.
at have no idea how long was
DID," he began, land live at Nc.
1884 East Forty-seyenth street,
Cleveland, Ohio. was employed by
the Henkel Flour Company in Cleve-
land, and last Thursday l was sent
to a car to check OF the nums-er or
flour bags that were to be shipped.
I was checking of the bags with the
door open, when suddenly q brake
man came along and shut the door
and locked 1t. ~
81 pounded and screamed to be
lete out, but the man did not como
back. felt the car moying. and
screamed until I lost all power to
make a noise, and then pounded on
the door.
'I have no idea how long was
in the car. I got so hungry was
weak broke into sack OF flour
and took great mouthfuls Of 1t. Then
I got thirsty and the more flour ] ate
the more thirsty ! got.
1T began to rain. could hear
the water falline of the car, ana
took my handkerchief land stuck
II through a crack in the door. When
the handkerchief got wet / would
drag it back and moisten my lips.
AS 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 suueesed most Of the water
from it, but managed to get few
drops. did this all the time 1t
was raining on Friday, Friday night
and Saturday, but the flour MADE
me thirstier, and was so hungry |
had to eat something. When the
rain stopped found my mouth and
throat SO parched that couidn'
speak, much less cry out. was SIM
ply choking to death.
"Whenever the train stopped
would beat at the door, but some
how my car always was far away
from the station or where there was
a sw;tchman or brakeman.
az could see through the crack IL
tho door when we got to stations
At Baltimore I managed to attract
the attention of man and he stop
ned at nv car. l tried to speak to
him but couldn't. I was so thirsty
and he passed on, thinking some cat
tie were in the car.
"I don't remember much after
that. / just lay down on the hour
sacks and got ready to die. can
remember anything more until got
: here"
The sreJ etyCyiuoremesntpg bee
The Jersey City police got into
communication with Cleveland, and
learned that young Golden had been
renorted as missing from home. An
, examination of the -four sacks show
ed that one of them had been broken
open.
The boy was taken to the Oakland
avenue police station for the night
Doctors who examined him said ne
would recover, but that had he stay
ed in the car another day he would
: have died from thirst. When he IL
: otronp enough he will be sent home