Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1908 — STARVING CHINESE IN CAR. [ARTICLE]

STARVING CHINESE IN CAR.

Sixteen Smuggled Orientals Discovered in San Francisco. San 'Francisco, June s.—When a sealed box car, which apparently had come intact from Galveston Tuesday, was opened in the Southern Pacific yards, 16 half-starved Chinese were found, in addition to a half load of heavy steel. The car was ten days on the road and had been in the yards for 48 hours. The Chinese had a little water and a few crackers left, but were weak and hollow-eyed. One of them showed a certificate entitling him to admission to the country, but the others were turned over to the Immigration officials, It is supposed by the officials that the men were smuggled across the Mexican boundary and placed in the car at El Paso, the seals of the car being replaced with others. There evidently was an arrangement for their release here, but lissome way it miscarried.