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Show Peer Stop a ranenger Train. Who would think that a railroad eo-gine eo-gine that rated in a round home her was stopped cm its way to Charlotte to prevent it from running over two deer ' that, charmed by the big yellow glare from its headlight, stood on the track and waited until the engine stopped within ten feet of them? Such a thing did occur. It was on the Carolina Central Cen-tral railroad, and Frank Lewis is the engineer en-gineer who came within on ace of bringing bring-ing a load of venison to Charlotte. The Charlotte bound passenger train, Capt Georga Welsh, conductor, pulled out of the dfpot at Wilmington at tha osnal time Tuesday evening, made tha regular stop at Hilton Bridge, another stop at Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley crossing, and was just getting under way for Meares Bluff when Engineer Lewis saw a dark object ahead on tho track. He at first thought it was a man, but, as it did not move, he seized the whistle cord and gave the cattle alarm. Tha object grew bigger, but remained motionless, motion-less, and the engineer threw on the brakes. The train slowed up abruptly, and as it drew near the object the engineer saw something that astonished him. There, just in front of him, was a big buck deer with a fins spread of antlers. The buck was standing in the center of the track staring directly into the headlight, head-light, and just behind him, standing across the truck and looking at the engine over the buck's shoulders, was a beautiful beauti-ful doe. The engine got within ten feet of them when its nearness threw the rays of the headlight over them, and the moment mo-ment that occurred they bonnded from the track and disappeared in the darkness. dark-ness. The engineer was almost unstrung by the novel experience, and he and tha fireman talked deer all the way to Charlotte. Char-lotte. Had he known what the objects ahead of him were he could have put on steatn and bagged a big mess of venison, Charlotte (N. C.) News. |