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Show Terrible Time at The Junction 1 Woman and Babe Freeze to Death at 0. I S. L. Station or Almost Freeze. 11 The Cache Junction lailroad station is iigain in the limelight, this time with all the Calcuims turned on. The occasion that war-rants war-rants a .scare-head is nothingmoro nor less than an incipient . riot that happened in the little burg last Friday inorning, the result of the railro.nl company's indisposition indisposi-tion to furnish its patrons with even a' portion of the conveniences given our life-term prisoners in tho state penitentiary. The story as it comes to us from one who is thoroughly reliable and inclined to minimise rather than exaggerate, exagger-ate, is a rich one, well worthy a place iii the archives of the 0. S. L., and tho memory of Cacho-vilhans Cacho-vilhans who occasionally ride on 0. S. L. trains. For both we pre sent it hero as follqws: At The Junction. Last Friday morning about a doen passengers got off tho early inorning train from the north. The atmosphere, something Mess than (10) below zero, caused the bunch to hustle to the station waiting room. v There they expected ex-pected to Pad seats and n fire, of course, and they did find the seats, but tfiese and thq floor wore Occupied by tramps. As for fire, that had 'frozen stiff and tho tramps had thrown it out doors to thaw. After an inspection of the waiting room with its load of decomposing carcases, the, passengers passen-gers went out doors, also, and in an effort to keep , warm played tag about tho station. Ono poor lone woman, weak and fragilo, with a child in arms, could not keep up with thp gamo and sat down on the ground, said her prayers nnd prepared to -freeze to death as icotnfortably as she could. As it happened, there was in tho crowd of "taggers" a gentleman from tho town of Sphlitz and Pabst and this suffering suffer-ing woman's pitiable condition touched his heart. He went to tho 0. S. L. branch coach standing stand-ing on the side track and tried to open tho door, but it was locked. The, station agent camo up just )mW as this 250 pound product of Mil- rl wnukee was preparing to push i ;fl that door in, and the big fellow ?' was told tbat'ho would be reported I ; to the company. Where the fel- .l low was frozen before, he now ' got hot and the 250 pounds of ' avoidupois hogan to sizzle. He ill told that agent to go to a warmer H climate and that if ho didn't open H that coach door for tho-woman ! and child ho would break tho fU door down. -Tho result was that Bfl in a few minutes the door was ,fl opened for tho lady, but tho jM others were forced to remain out j side. f At about G:45 the conductor bf j tho branch train put in his ap- j fl pcaranco and" words warm US enough 'to heat the whole Cache 'ijfl Junction'n.eighborhood passed be- fl tween him and tho MihvnnWor. ufl man. The latter was given to l fl understand that ho would be jfl mado to answer for his conduct, Ih but that gentleman gavo his name ' fl gratis, gave the namo of his firm and consigned tho whole .0. S. L. II bunch, porters, Harriman ct al, ' ,1 to Gehenna. He wanted an in- H vestigation and said he would do fl a little himself. The conductor ,'fl was n nervy follow, too, looked fl liko there was going to be blood !" on tho moon that somotimes . shines at tho Junction,' but the crowd finally decided to build a ,1 fire in the station waiting room. The passengers did this but then v - thoy were sorry, for 4hey be- gan to get sick and ono by one 'H vacated that atmosphere for the t 9 zero weather outside. When those ! ! tramps began to get warmed up 9 tlujy stunk worse than a tannery. fl The air was so filled with tramp ffl juice that it had to be chewed 191 before it could be breathed, and fJM the passengers feared small-pox jfl and hydrophobia more than HS pneumonia. Before any answered IH "23" however, tho 0. S. L.branch !l coach was opened and tho old im blunderbus started on its tortur- 'fl oils' trip to tho Temple City of ffl the North. On the way over, tho ul Milwaukee man and the conduc- 'H tor kept up their -war of words, fl and finally tho big follow threat- cned to throw thq conductor off l ! the train and run it to Logaii fl himself but ho didn't do it. m Tho passengers who partici- . Pfl pated in the event say it was dM worth the price of admission. ' II Nono blamo the conductor, nor ' the station agent, but all do ' 'II blame the 0. S. L. for not keeping i ill a fire at the station, for not , fjl providing the necessary room and hI for not having an agpnt who will ' ill keep tho tramps from tho waiting l room. Such complaints as the $l above have been constant during j tho past ten years, but it is ovid- " it I ent that the 0. S. L. doesn't care. 1 It wants dividends to buy up II more railroads on which to issue LI bonds to buy othor railroads and l finally get a clutch on theEagTe's t fjl aesophagus. During recent weeks Km thero has beon talk of tho noces- II sity of logisntion. affecting rail- ,';il roads where lack of compcttion M causes them to givo the helpless H public tho butt end of things xllfl generally, and it is pretty ccr-" Mm tain that some men will turn thejr- ' M attention to this possiblo remedy s -- .'i xmM before another legislature.' - l'- 'II MM |
