| Show through the tunnel A railway mail clerk who has a carte himself left it fora moment to run forward and speak to the engineer as the train stopped for water at a station in the allegheny mountains just west ol 01 the great tunnel when the boiler was filled and the train started ha sprang foi his car the entrance to the car was on the side and a solitary handle offered itself to the grasp of the passenger As the clerk seized this hurriedly and pulled himself up he discovered to his horror that the door had jarred shut and could not be opened from the outside at that moment the train shot into the tunnel the man shrieked for help but the noise of the train drowned his cries and with loth hands grasping the handle his feet on the iron step and his body glued to the side of the car lest he should be dashed against the jagged wall he was carried into the darkness As the tunnel is a mile long and the atmosphere almost stifling the hapless mans predicament can be better imagined than described when the train came out into daylight again the engineer looked back as usual to see il the train was following and discovered the mail clerk in his perilous position the train was stopped as quickly aa possible and the engineer and conductor hastened to the mans rescue he waa all ant demented and on being assisted to the ground fell unconscious for acis months afterward he was under a physicians care and when be had recovered from the shock he said the tunnel seemed at least te miles long and my head 1 thought was hollow with the smoke rushing in at my month and nostrils and pouring out again through my ears whenever I 1 think of it my brain reels andl feel myself crouching just as I 1 crouched against the outside of that car while being dragged through that horrible darkness washington star |
