The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-30
AMERICANS IN
EUROPE FIGHT
TO GET HOME
Crowds in Carlsbad and Ma
rienbad Stampede the Out
going Trains.
MANY ARE LEFT BEHIND
Ticket Offices Forced to
Close: Telegraph Of
fees Swamped.
SOME STILL PLAN TRIPS
Tourists in London Undaunted
by War Clouds on Con-
tinent.
MANY ARE LEFT BEHIND
SOME STILL PLAN TRIPS

Speo,di cabie Dsspdtch N TIVE srS
LoNpoN. July Equestrian news
papers which reached London to-day
bring the first news Of tho extraor-
binary scenes at Carlsbad when It be-
came known that war was no longer
avoidable.
Crowds Of prominent people. includ
Ing hundreds Of Americans. started inn
mediately for Vienna on the earliest
morning trains on Sunday. The late
arrivals AT the railroad station had a
very small chance even to enter the
depot. which was jammed with hun
dreds Of people. The booking offices
were compelled to close in the afternoon
and were not reopened.
The situation was one Of extreme
difficulty toward > T. NJ. despite the
Efforts ~ the police to regulate the
waiting crowds. Although the Carlsbad
Vienna express was not scheduled to
the moment it was made up. The dis
tinction between classes OF transporta-
tion. which is usually most rigidly en-
forced. disappeared completely.
The train steamed out leaving the
platforms still crowded with disap-
pointed passengers. Many distinguished
persons who had fought their way into
the train had to sleep on the floors.
Rig Crowds at Narienbad.
when the train arrived at Narienbad
pandemonium reigned. The platform
was jammed with passengers who in
tended 10 go To Vienna on the train.
These had been reinforced by many
others from l'ranzcnbad from which
place there is a special sleeping car SER
vice, which had suddenly been sus-
pended. The train was unable TO take
on any more passengers and arrived at
Vienna two hours late.
There were extraordinary scenes at
Carlsbad throughout Sunday. Number
less bath tickets in the fashionable
Kaiserbad We're returned and the hotels
and boarding houses were empticd in
short order. Those who were unable
to leave gathered IN the centre OF the
town and some Of them in their anger
tore up the war extras which were
being sold by the newsboys
The telegraph offices AT Carlsbad we're
besieGed by crowds which overlooked
into the streets No telegram. not even
one In the plainest language. as, for ex-
ample, a simple announcement OF de-
parture, would be accepted without the
production of the sender's identification
papers
The telegraph operators were showed
under with the plies Of kilograms and
declared that the majority of the mes
sages could not be despatched anyhow
as the STAFF was too small to cope with
the avalanche OF dispatches.
Ex-Minster Koloman Won Sell. who
was in the crowd. was unable to pro-
duce an identification card and his des-
patches were refused In reply to his
wrathful rcmonstrances the head tele-
graph official shrugged his shoulders
and said he would have the same chance
as the rest Of the people. which was
next to nothing,
A private telegram received here from
woman who Is at an Austrian watering
place said she had been ordered to
leave in twelve hours or otherwise she
might not he able to get a train or even
an automobile to take ner away. Bust
ness men in London are finding 1t i'm
possible to communicate with their
agents in Vienna