Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 8 | Guggenheim Feeds Stalled Travelers

GUGGENHEIM FEEDS STALLED TRAVELERS Smelter Magnate Takes Care of Woman Passenger and Babe in His Private Car. WALLACE, Idaho, March 24. Simon GupKenheim, chairman of the board of the American Smelting & Refining Co. and former United States senator from Colorado, arrived here this aftornoon Jfter having .been snowbound more than twentv-four hours near the summit of the Coe'ur d'Alene mountains. A snow slide in front of a Northern Pacific Pa-cific train bound for Missoula to which his private car was attached, stopped the train and before the engineer could back into Wallace another slide in the rear took away a trestle. Mr. Guggenheim was forced to walk today down a mountain trail to a special spe-cial train that had been sent from here to rescue the snowbound passengers. Members of the snowbound party said that Mr. Guggenheim fed tho forty passengers pas-sengers and train crew as long as tho food lasted in his private car. He also put aside a bed iu his car for a woman passenger and her baby.