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Show SiipertUHou. Hailrnuil Men. Another tragio point on the Houston and Texas railrood is Elm creek bridge. It is iu a creek bottom, a few miles south of Corsicana, where a convict employed in the construction of the road was killed kill-ed while attempting to escape. The tradition tra-dition is that the unfortunate man was crammed in a water barrel, head down, and buried in scandalous haste. The superstitious su-perstitious think they can see his misty ghost as it flits across tho track in front of the engine; ominous of evil. Here accident ac-cident after accident has occurred; many engineers and firemen have lost their lives or been crippled for good, and thousands of dollars worth of rolling stock and merchandise has been destroyed. destroy-ed. The train , men have therefore changed the name of the place to Bad Medicine, and declare that these calamities calami-ties will be perpetual until the convict is exhumed and buried horizontally, so as to destroy his chances to kick at the road which cost liirn his life here below. Houston Letter in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Globe-Democrat. - |