Show r P 11 an exciting episode a of railroading in the colorado blout mountain algis 1 was chased once by a box bos car said an ex railroad man to a kansas city journal representative it was out in colorado the land of steep trades grades and sharp curves we were sliding down the mountains one daywitt day with a baggage car and two coaches I 1 was on the rear platform looking at the road when I 1 descried a box car coming down the grade at a rate of speed that was appalling if it struck us we were gone sure for it would smash the entire train into kindling wood and pile it up in one of the gorges our only hope was to either outrun or wreck it the engineer e caught sight of bf it at the same instant r that I 1 did and put the lever do down among the tallow pots pot it appeared impossible that we could coul hold the track on the sharp curves while moving more than a mile a minute but we did and the box bos car continued to saw wood if we could once get to the foot of the grade we would be safe but that was soon seen to be impossible rapidly as we were going the box car continued to gain upon us and now we could see that it was loaded wi with thiron iron something must be done an and d that quickly all the passengers had fled into the forward coach and were we re hanging on to the seats I 1 signaled the engineer to shut off set a brake hard on the rear coach pulled the pin and the engineer opened i the throttle we had not gone one hu hundred adred yards before the box car ran into the coach and sent splinters flying a quarter of 0 f a mile high both went plunging ver over 0 into a chasm and I 1 hunted up a passenger who had a pocket flask and reinforced my nerves |