The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-22
TRAINS STALLED In
clustering DESERT
PASSENGERS SUFFER AS THE
TEMPERATURE REACHES 4
100. SLEEP IMPOSSIBLE.

NEEDLES, Cal.-Sutterlng as the
temperature reached l2O today 2,5OC
marooned passengers OF the Santa F.
overland trains are helplessly awaiting
the return of striking big four
brotherhood workers.
Sleep was almost impossible last
night and the passengers deserted
their berths for the lawn surrounding
the Harvey house Cries OF babies kept
tired mothers carrying water. The
humidity added to the extreme dis
comfort
Santa Fe officials and Harvey house
girl employees aided the delayed pas
sengers. unaccustomed to the terrible
heat OF the desert,
1t was reported that strikers had
made an effort to enlist the hotel
workers in the walk-out. 1t was I'M
successful.
Twelve transcontinental trains on
the Santa Fe were stalled at desert
points at noon today, following the
refusal of trainmen to proceed, accord
ing to a list given out at the general
Offices here. There were no available
figures of the number OF passengers
involved, but the railroad men said
that ii the travel was average" it
would run from 1900 to $500,
Tears as Relief Comes.
The little parked spaces about the
railroad station and eating houses in
this desert railroad town lack tonight
4 IL,
men and children they had had for
three nights, due to several hundred
passengers marOoned here by refusal
OF the railroad brotherhoods to move
them. The trains were gone. One,
made up of eleven cars carrying pas
sengers, a railroad officials private
car and carload OF dressed poultry
which had been held here, proceeded
westward early today, carrying all
who cared to go in that direction, even
though their tickets may have read
for an eastern point. The remainder,
something over one hundred, were ia
ken east on a train late today.
Railroad officials and a regular con-
ductor made up the crew OF the west
bound train Just who manned the
east-bound one was not announced.
The eastbound passengers included
three funeral parties, each with its pa
thetiC accompaniment in box in the
baggage car ahead.
|. l. Hubbard, general manager OF
the Santa Fe, made personal plea
to brotherhood leaders here for their
assistance in moving the maroOned
passengers.
Tears of Thanksgiving were shed by
some OF those relieved from remaining
further in the baking heat of the cars
or sleeping in the only slightly cooler
parks. The thermometer registered 11S
yesterday and III the day before.
Typical Desert Town.
The passengers occupied themselves
with reading, lying on the grass i'll
the railroad park and bathing. 1t was
too hot for exercise.
Picture a broad, sandy, almost white
plain, broken by little hills and gullies
or arroyos. Put sage brush and iona
than trees on it. Run the Colorado
river sluggishly along one side,
through a channel about five sizes too
large for the water it is carrying.
String a few, very few, young trees
and green lawns here and there. Scat
ter small western town over an area
perhaps mile square, when it might
be compressed into four or FIVE blocks.
Place over it a brassy sky, an intense,
penetrating heat and hot breeze that
dries the marrow. A fair idea of Nee
dies will result.