| Show QUEER RECORD Made by a Railway away Engineer During a Bun Run of Bad Jd Luck Luck Denver Republican I would like to make a a few runs without having to fill out blank 2810 said Engineer John Howlings of the Colorado Southern r railroad r The luck has ha followed me for the past month Nearly every ever time I come comein comein comeIn in I have have to fill fU out 2810 which is ii i the report of accidents If I run over overa a whole hole city full ful of people p or a part of my engine breaks 1 I have to make a report on n that tat same sam blank If I I dont run over some stock st k somewhere a piece rn ove breaks bre ks on my my engine I have to report Only two tw weeks ago coming from Palmer Lake I thirteen pigs pig Orders Order had been for or all 01 the en engineers engineers engineers to look out o t for those pigs for they had been running along the track and the officers were afraid they would I throw trow a train trin off of The hC place where here rC they were to be found was sas specified and I I went over that track at the rate of went rte about ten miles mUes an a hour hourI I had one of those these new big engines engine I where the fire fre box is 18 away iway wa down close to the track They are big fellows and the only bad feature feature Is i that the fireman freman I has to get gt down under the engine lift the door in the front of the ash pan and use his long drag to pull puH out the ashes My fireman frema was an ingenious fellow and he had fixed a piece of telegraph wire so he could pull pul open the little door without getting down It I was pretty cold up there on the divide and andrain andrin andrain rain rin and ad snow sow were falling We Ve were about two miles mUes past the place where we iad la been warned and it i was wa im impossible impossible possible pos ible to see se very far ahead Sud Suddenly SuddenlY Suddenly denly I heard something was wrong I and I could see se pigs pig pigs flying over onto the right of way Aay We had struck that pack oft of its is range There was nothing to do after we hail had ha smashed them the but butto butto butto to go g on At t the next net station staton the fire fireman fre frema fireman man ma got down to scrape out his ashes and the te first thing he h dragged out was wasa a small smal pig The last time he had opened his ash pan pa with wih his hil telegraph wire he had ha forgo en to close cose it and there were w re two young YOUg pigs pig scooped into the pan One was wa not dead yet About a week later Just this side of Palmer P mer Lake I hit lilt two of these lit little tie tle te mountain burros buu s hit em both at atthe atthe the same time It I was wa another time just like the other with rain ran and snow falling It wa was just at that hour hour of the morning when Js coldest and light Ight is barely beginning to show ho The storm torm tr AV wa was as so s heavy X I 1 cd hardly hadly see the telegraph poles My fireman called cale to tome tome tome me that there ther was something ahead and I looked out ot The he two burros burrs were about feet away and I had sixty sixt r loads los behind behin me rae I saw sw thing fly fy out on the right of way on my m p side and I told the fireman I Igess guessed gess that had ha been fixed all aU right right But when we got into the next station there was wa half of the burros on onte the te pilot H Ho He had h been cut ct in two as smooth as a anything you ever saw sw The fireman freman took tok his pick Dick out and tried to t sink it lt into the carcass caras and pull pul it away hut but bt the thing had ha been frozen there It I stayed there tere too to until we Ae got to the end of the run and then the themen themen themen men had to take a hose and warm wa water water water ter to t thaw it out and get it i off of That seems like l hard had luck enough for one month but b t I had ha another L r Iran ran rn down a 8 hand band car cr this side of Lark Larkspur Lak Larkspur spur I was wa running right ahead of a passenger and was wa making pretty good time to keep from being bing laid out some somewhere somewhere somewhere where to let the passenger go SO by I came out from Larkspur and just as I 1 turned that first curve curVE this side there was l a a hand car half hal a a nile mile nie down the track and four Swedes pumping it I They were going the same ame way I was wa and I whistled for them to get off of the track At first firt they paid pid no attention to me and then they all al jumped off of and an began to 10 push the thing If I they had ha lifted It i oft off of they could have got away but bt when whan they began to push I it i was wa up to t me I tried fried to stop but we were close and I did not leave l any piece of ot that car cr big big enough to tD tomake tomake make mae kindling wood wod Of course I stopped and ad went back and what do you you think was wa hurting that boss bo He said sid he mind anything so s much as R that I had broken boken the dishes taken ten out lout for the th lunch They were a lot of old plates plate with those these blue flowers fowers on o them tem The boss bO said sid his wife would raise rais the devil devi with wih him for lor r cracking the crockery crocker His hand handcar had handcar car cr was smashed th the front of mr xi en engine gine had everything taken off of with the rest rest but his grief was wa over about 15 cents worth of dishes that his wife would scold about aut |
