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Show SALTAIR ROAO Eclipsed Former Efforts of Crushing Humanity Onto Its Cars. The Saltnir Beach Railroad company broke its own unonviable record for crowding humanity onto its trniua last night. 2ot an inch of available space was left when the 10 p. m. train pulled out, but. the real honor of the record, with all its concomitant dangers, belongs be-longs to the train which should have left at 11 p. nr., but did not depart until thirty minutes after that hour. On that train fifteen young men rode on the tender of the engine. The first car,, all told, carried 150 passengers, and it is seated for eightv people! The others w-ere jammed and crushed to the same extent. Heaven knows how they made that perilous journey. Knights of the Pythian order will ever recollect it as a memorable event. Women Had a Set-to. Huddled on tho platforms were young men and j'oung women, crowding into the doors of tho cars. Squatted on the floor in all kinds of indescribable positions posi-tions wore women and little children in the entrances to the cars, and jumbled in with them wero lunch baskets, "baby buggies and all the other paraphernalia pertaining to a family outing, Down the aisles the people thronged, jostling and crowding, elbowing and shoving. Two women had a "difference" over who .should occupy a certain seat, and a brief engagement in fisticuffs ensued. And after those hundreds 'of human beings pleasure seekers, forsooth had been jammed .into those cars, the trnin was kept standing at the beach thirty minutes betoro it was started to the city, just to make tho torture moro enduring en-during 1 As a specimen of refined cruelty cruel-ty it was par excellent. This delay was occasioned because the management deemed it advisable to hold the train there until another from the city had pulled up to. the "Y" at the beach, in-stead in-stead of having them pass at the switch, as heretofore, feo ior over an hour hundreds hun-dreds endured intense suffering as a recompense for spending an hour or two And, m all humility, the suggestion is made to the managetnent JV from the cars the notice ftjjH "Passengers are forbiddemWB ride on the platforms of tH climb onto the cars while tHff motion. Signed. J. E. LaojttjjB cause it is a farce and a iH ing almost with death. Of course, it is needless toJH the danger. Everyone prettiH it. The train which leit "JB p. m. broke in two. The tsnB portion of the train had tartM siderable distance before ' jMi served that the accident and part of the load was When the train snapped, wiB the brakes set and stop toe hB the air at fault 'again. OrdWBB to make the connection! 11 p. m. train had broken is certain that those, or somB on the platform would aB thrown under the whees. .BW what? Let the management Investigation Not QondB Manager J. E. Longford . rfB Tribune" representative the investigation into ifAar Tuesday's collision had concluded, but it is expecwqjBm this afternoon. Many JB facts of the collision are mSH got scattered, so that fJM vet been able to secure ttei reason set forth, to the efcuMH one jerked the air Draw loose after the train !?" not plausible, because it done then the severing of would have stopped tnotnup |