The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-08-31
WIN. ROLLING ON
STRANDED TRAIN
KenOshan on Way Home
from West Held Up by
Rail Strike.
WAITED FOUR DAYS
Reached KenOsha on Tuesday
After Being Forced to Re-
turn to Los Angeles.

"If you are looking for your per-
sonel convenience and comfort, never
be an innocent third party when big
railway system starts scrapping with
it's employees. You are certain to get
what the disnterested bystander usu-
ally gets in any kind of scrap" was
the announcement of William Rolling
Of Los Angeles, CAL, but formerly of
Kenosha who reached here on Tuesday
He had expected to be in Kenosha
long while ago but he happened to
have been one of the passengers who
tried to ride the Santa EFF trains when
the members Of the brotherhoods en-
ployed on the trains and the officials
of the line were at logger heads and
he was one of the veterans" of the
nearly three days camping out at
Needles.
Needles is in California but just on
the desert which covers lot of Ari-
iona and Rolling insisted on Tuesday
night that Needles was the last place
in the world that he would want to
spend vacation. Rolling finally man
aged to get out of Needles and back to
Los Angeles and then he took the next
transcontinental train for Chicago.
Had Plenty of Local Color"
ut was an experience which most
dfeUsswon't forget until we die" sug-
gested Rolling. 81 had left Los Ange-
les to come to Kenosha and when we
got to Needles just the other side of
the Arizona line the men in charge
of the train decided that the equip
ment was not just up to snuff and they
announced that the train was stopping
indefinitely / was on the first train
that started the pile up at Needles and
when the stop was made the passen-
gers thought that it would all blow
over in a couple of hours, but there
we stayed at Needles from Thursday
night until Sunday night. If you have
never been marooned at Needles it
would be hard for me to tell you
about it. We had just stepped off to
eat at the Harvey restaurant there and
when we got back to the train we
found out that the crews had quit.
Pretty soon two other trains arrived
at Needles and the equipment was
just as bad on them and the crews
in charge of them laid off,"
Four Hundred Marooned at Needles.
81 do not know how many people
we're piled up at the various points
along the Santa Fe but there were four
hundred of them at Needles and they
had some time of it. The tempera-
ture registered 100 in the cars at six
o'clock in the evening and it was i'm
possible to sleep in them There were
something like $500 people at Needles
land they showed real interest in the
welfare of the stranded passengers.
About half of the crowd was women
and there were some children and the
people out at Needs opened their
homes to the women and the children.
The company saw to it that every one
was fed at the eating house. The men
we're forced to sleep on the ground as
there were no hotel accomm odations. I
doubt if / will ever get the erik out
of my back, l was told that three
members of our party at Needles had
died since as result of the priva-
tions they suffered"
Get Away on Guarded Train.
"That button helped me out of it on
the first train" said Rolling as he
pointed to a fraternity emblem on his
lapel, zone of the conductors happen
ed to belong to the same lodge and
he tipped me off to the fact that the
officials of the road who had managed
to get to Needles were going to take
train away for Los Angeles leaving
at six o'clock on Sunday. We got in
there on Thursday and I was willing
to take good many chances to get
out. We were warned by some of the
passengers that the train would be
blown up and that all kinds of horrible
things were going to happen to it, but
said let 'em blow told one of
the fellows that I would rather be
blown to kingdom come than stay at
Needles. After three days of that heat
knew that I wasn't taking much of
chance at anything. When the train
pulled out there were three men riding
the front of the engine and each of
them was armed with sawed-of shot
gun and the same kind of guards were
provided for the back end of the train.
Along the railway tracks there was a
hard road and an autobobile just filed
with men with rifles drove along be-,
side the train for thirty miles,"
Company Foots the Bill.
eve never had bit Of trouble and
never saw anything that looked like a
bomb or anything else dangerous. The