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Show WOLF VON IGEL, one of Germany's master spies, who is implicated in plots which led to arrest of revolutionary revolu-tionary clique. fe i f - ff H M AH is. I NEAR FREEZING 01 PIHTf Til D. & R. G. Branch Tied Up Two Days and Nights in the Snow. L. E. Martineau, Sr., ono of forty half-famished and thoroughly chilled passengers on the ill-fated Park City train on the Denver & Eio Grande branch which was tied up two days and nights by a snow blockade between here and Park City and reached here at 6;30 yesterday morning, told his experiences to a reporter of The Tribune last night. "I have had some unpleasant, not to say painful, experiences in mv life," said Mr. Martineau, "but th'is little trip from Park City to Salt Lake has set a new mark for me. Our train was stuck Monday af ternoou and we remained re-mained there, or near there, until a little lit-tle before 5 o'clock yesterday morning. Food Scarcity Felt. "Of course, we ran out of food and likewise out of fuel to warm the car. Some of us went to a near-by ranch house and obtained a little food, which was divided among the forty passengers, but this was not enough, and we went dismally hungry. The company sent us some sandwiches and coffee from Salt Lake, but a gaug of workmen sent up to assist in clearing the track ate a large part of the supplies before the train reached ua. Added to all this, a freight train ran into our car Tuesday evening and a number of the passengers passen-gers were throvvn to the floor and bruised, although uone was Beriously injured. in-jured. "Under the conditions, I do not blame the company it did the best it could, 1 guess but 1 do not want any more such experiences, and 1 am confident that the other men on the car. to say nothing of the women and several children, chil-dren, feel the same way about it." Although the train to" which Mr. Martineau Mar-tineau referred reached hero early yesterday yes-terday morning, tho line was still blocked to traffic last night, despite heroic efforts on the part of officials to clear the tracks of snow. Freight Is Stalled. Two rotaiies, ;i wedge plow, a flangor j and eleven locomotives were kept busy all of yesteniay and last ntuht in (he vicinity vicin-ity of Kimball and Gorgoza trying to raise tho blockade. A freight train which left Park ritv I Monday is stalled at Kimball. .Wording ; to the railroad men the fierce wind had . filled the cuts with snow, which, coupled i with ice. mnde the work exceptionally te-! te-! dim le. A large number of men nrmed wlth i picks and shovels hare been assisting In the work. Superintendent 15. W. Duel stated last nitfbt that there would be no letup, and he hoped that this morning would find condilions far more favorable, with traffic resumed. There was no attempt mnde to haul a j train from Salt T,ake to Park City yesterday, yes-terday, and as a result no mail was sent to Pnik City. There has been no mall received re-ceived there, over the Park City branch since last Monday. H was stated by the Short Pino officials of-ficials yesterday that the Vh-tor branch, which has been blocked for the past ten dayn, is still closed to traffic. All of the other lines are reported clear. |