Show finding lost baggage it wason was on the stormy division of the C B and Q it happened when Sn perin dugans jurisdiction embraced that division the east bound passenger train then called the cannon ball had on board five corpses t through ough from denver in charge of t the t train r 1 I baggage man it was in june and the beather weather was hot hart the baggage man find ine 1 n z the atmosphere in the baggage car becoming undesirable moved three boxes e containing onta ining a corpse each to the platform of his car outside ont eide one on top of the other As the train was nearing ottumwa the baggage man upon looking out was waa horrified to discover one of the boxes missing surmising that one of the boxes had bad slid off in rounding ronn ding a curve owing to the high rate of speed the train had been running he wired superintendent dugan immediately upon arrival of the train at ottumwa apprising him of the loss dugan wired the section foreman at ottumwa as follows patrick mcgann look for corpse lost off cannon ball three miles west of ottumwa and report condition of same when found patrick immediately started out with the section gang and found the box intact and brought the same to ottumwa it wm waa seldom that patrick received orders ordera direct from the superintendent the being his immediate superior consequently patrick concluded the time to win promotion had arrived and after reading dugans telegram over for the twentieth time wired his bis superintendent in as follows Mi fishter dolgun I 1 hev bev found the korouse kor and the korouse was ded the operators ex postulations were in vain and patrick would permit no change in the mes message sige saying 1 I the adders of doogan lt astoria examiner |