Man, 65, found OK days after being forced off Amtrak train

The Associated Press

June 29, 2007 - 7:03AM

WILLIAMS - A 65-year-old St. Louis man who disappeared Sunday night in northern Arizona after being escorted off an Amtrak train bound for Los Angeles has been found in the area where he got off the train.

The Williams Police Department says a sheriff's deputy who had been involved in a search for Roosevelt Sims spotted him about 9:40 p.m. last night walking along the railroad track some three miles southeast of Williams.

A dispatcher said today that Sims was taken to Flagstaff Regional Medical Center for evaluation.

Sims reportedly was forced off the train because train personnel believed he was drunk, although family members say he was likely in a diabetic shock.

Amtrak issued a statement saying it followed company policy in escorting Sims off the Sunset Chief Sunday night at Williams Junction during a regularly scheduled stop. It said a conductor waited on the platform with Sims and his luggage for police to arrive, and when they did, it says Sims ran into the nearby woods.

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Angry

Despicable.....let's push an old man off a train and let him die in the woods.......thank god he was found. People are so callous when it's regarding elderly people. Suggest removal of this comment

June 29, 2007

!!!!!

What a load of BS!! sounds like Amtrak will be paying for this one! Suggest removal of this comment

June 29, 2007

I can read

Did either of you read the whole story? It's not like Amtrak kicked him off the train in the middle of nowhere. Suggest removal of this comment

June 29, 2007

Poorly written story

As noted earlier, the man was not kicked off in the middle of nowhere. Yet another instance of poor article construction, or just another sad attempt to sensationalize a rather booring story.

It should have read "Drunk gets kicked off train at train station, when police arrive, he runs away. Police search for man and finally catch up to the criminal. He will now be charged with resisting arrest and fleeing." Suggest removal of this comment

June 29, 2007

fredd

If you have ever been to Williams Junction, it has a cement platform by the woods.I am really glad Mr Sims was found, I hope when someone else goes on a train trip,that they don't mistaketheir low/high blood sugar for drunkeness.That in itself would be the biggest mistake.Maybe the conductors should check that out before they do that again. Suggest removal of this comment