Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-03-01
.F|REMAN's HEROIsM
BRINGS HIGH PLAUD|Ts


Trinidad, Colorado Chronicle-News
relative to heroic action Of two Fort
Worth x Denver City Railway fire
mcn. residents OF amarillo
The heroism Of two = W. ID. c.
firer,en. G. l.. o WE'LL and J 4. Wal
laco. who Sunday night rode eight
miles through terrific blizzard from
TeNlinc TO reach the illfated passen-
ger train Ne. l. stalled In snow
bank eight miles ont. viii never be
forgotten by sixty or more passen-
scrs who reached Trinidad az twelve
O'Clock last night. without food for
twenty-five hours. the passengers
we're relieved early yesterday morn
ling when the firemen, almost frozen
on their horses. reached the train.
bringing sandwiches and coffee
For six hours the firemen founder
cd In the drifts. all landmarks OBJ
| liberated by the awful blizzard that
lswirled into their faces, ami benumb-
"a and unable TO speak coherently.
the two men were dragged from their
horses by the passengers the heroic
men had relieved.
MOL was due In TeXline at 2:Ol
Sunday morning. For more than
one hundred miles the line was COW
cred with snow. Eight miles from
Teyline the wall of snow assumed
the proportions of an impossible bar
ricr. and the train was blocked The
engines died and the blizzard was
raging al It's worst II was not un-
til shortly before noon yesterday
that train sent out from Te, line
reached the blockade and the rassen-
gers were picked up and brought to
Tevline. Engineer Tom O'Nelll. for
twenty-thrce years on the division
and engineer Dan Orran. brought the
train from Texine TO Trinidad. ar
rivinr here shortly after midnight.
There was no diner on the train
and by noon Sunday every scrap OF
food was consumed. Confronted by
a doarth of food and no hope Of re
lief. the passengers We're almost
ready to mutiny when /. +. Con
verse of ri Paso. Texas. former
newspaper man, was appointed by
the conductor 10 see what he could
do towards relieving the passengers.
lie found a couple crates OF eggs In
a baggage ear and all that day the
passengers touched no food but hard
boiled eggs, and the supply Of eggs
did not last long.
In the meantime the brakeman OF
the train walked two miles through
the blizzard 10 the nearest station
and got word 20 Tcxlne Of the plighA
Of the train AZ Teyline fireme1
O'Neil and Wallace volunteered TO
20 to the relief of the passengers on
horses and after loading up with
svrdv iches and coffee thew started
the Journey across the snow covered
lognlation The track lay seven feet
deep under snow, End time and again
the men lost their way in the blizzard
hut guided by the telegraph poles
they finally reached the train abor
one o'clock yesterday morning. The
passengers expressed their crctWd
hv taking mp purse for the hra''
fircmen
crows had the line cleared from Tex
line 10 the place where the train was
stalled and the passengers were
nut on and the train reached this CITY
lost night. and all the way fighting
the snow. Engineer rom p'Neill
stated today that in all his wears on
the road he had never heard Of @
more narrowing experience.
While thus marooned on the pra
less expanse of sky and snow some
of the hungry passengers became re-
bcllious. The hard boiled eggs did
not set we'll ON their stomaches AMI
Converse was named sort II ser
ccant ri arms to keep the peace. On,
passenger. a burly deputy sheriff %.
some Texas town became somewhat
exercised by the plight and limited
that somebody was wthholdiu- food
lie became noisy ANA demanded O.
search of the coaches and that any
one with a lunch be made 10 shar.
up. Alas, all lunches had loug since
been deyoured. But the deputy nm
dertock to squelch the deputy
The deputy reached for DIS gun
bot Converse was 90 Iuick. and a.
the point Of his persuader be made
the ill-natured deputy go 20 another
part Of the train and be- quietly seat
ed.
When more dead than alive from
exposure O'Neill and Wallace on oN
hausted mounts reached the scene
with the food brought from Teyliut
a cheer went up and the men were
lifted upon the shoulders OF the pas
sengers and warmth rubbed back
into their bodies Children wera
crying and one woman PASSENGER 20
whom an egg dies had been obn0N.
ious. kissed foremen Wallace on the
cheek. When the train arrived in
Trinidad last night the tales told
around the depot platform were Ike