Reply #10: This is the kind of story that breaks your heart - more on Mr. Sims [View All]

I've been googling hoping for a good ending. Gawd I hope they find this man.

Roosevelt Sims, 65, had finally retired.

So for his first vacation ever, the steel mill worker hopped on an Amtrak train in St. Louis and headed to Los Angeles to visit his family.

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Sims' family believes he went into a diabetic shock. They were able to call him on his cell phone the following day, but the 65-year-old sounded disoriented.

"They knew something was drastically wrong," Graham said. "They kept trying to call him. His conversations got progressively worse. He seemed to be getting more incoherent."

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"Amtrak followed company policy Sunday night (6/24) when a passenger was escorted off Amtrak's Southwest Chief train #3 in Williams Junction, AZ, at a regularly scheduled station stop with a station platform and roadway access. Amtrak would never leave a person alone in a remote location under any circumstances. In this case, the conductor and the passenger waited on the platform with the passenger's luggage. Upon arrival of authorities, the passenger fled into nearby woods. The investigation is being handled by Williams PD."

http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/KTVKLNews20070628_retired-guy.23d67705.html