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Show STALLED TRAVELER GLAD TO GET HOME Marooned in Idaho, John R. SJiirennan Goes on Food-foraging Tour and Finds Harvesting Machinery. John R. Shireman III, a commercial man, returneil to Salt Lake yesterday after being marooned in Idaho a few miles out of Malad. "To begin with," Mr. Shireman said, "the crew of the O. S. L. tried to make things pleasant under the most adverse circumstances. We were due to leave Malad Tuesday morning, but were told the road was blocked, so we stayed there twenty-four hours. Wednesday morning the train gulled out at 8 o'clock, went about twenty-live twenty-live miles and then stopped. And we stayed 'stopped' until 1 o'clock tho following morning. There was only one fire on the train; that was in the baggage bag-gage car. It was mighty cold in the coaches and there was nothing to eat. We went foraging in the baggage car, but found the only thing there outside of harvesting machinery, was the head of a rabid coyote. Too cold to play cards, blocked in so we could not leave to locate a ranch house to beg food, no more tobacco and nothing to stimulate stimu-late outside of very cold water, the situation was hardly an enviable 'one. A huge snow plow extricated us eventually- and we arrived in Brigliam City at 4 a. m. .onlv to be told that the next train would not leave until four hours later. The hotels at this point had signs out 'Filled up.' Tired, hun-; grv and cold, we waited, and Salt Lake City looked like a veritable paradise! when we came to it." |