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Show miArtKADLE NCRVC AT THE LtVErt ISatUnM W Oookln can ef lar,soatAture, Ininannrrlntraanulet, Iw,.pollt0na obliging, l,t al.. bupmriug Ui. h, cim,. In contact ullli lila !il, conwIouTOM ot I.U l"" an ttolfrrllar.ee. HUdeeltlont wcw qslcMf madi) mi 1 Imtaiitljr acted on. On ono occasion, lul running on Hi roaO, ho waa lirlng1n a train from iniUultlphU to thla ritj Wlim ho una hearing tho trad crowlti ot tiaroail leading 0 Dumonliplfr, on I ip Dtlawaro rlrcr, n fow inllra ! Hilt city, h ua two loaded pottlcr "ngontnnnroaclitnir tlio railroad tin lornnott (ram hail hreomo unmanngn. tulo an 1 nu running away, followed ojr Hi aecoml train. Lngbirrr Oookln calculated that ho oul J meet on of I how ttagvna at tho eroailnir Tlier wcro no nlr Irakea In tho daja, an J ho rooM not tlop In llin to avoid n rollltmii Ifliatlaclt. nod hi h.1 lio might avoid tho tint wagon to eollld with tli ycond one. A colllilon Meant an ciplotlon. dfatli lo lilmaalf and untnan. and thu il-itructlontf il-itructlontf hla train. Thtrowaibut on chanro of racape, that waa to In. treat hlatpt-ed, outrun Hi lioraca and pan ahead of th tint Irani or rliipi between tlio two wagon. Iloncntlnl lira Uiuo ipilttljr, lliraw hla tngln Ido open anil nailed A ttrandod fireman, who liad bepgrd f Ido from l'hlladelphla to Wilmington on Uookln'a engliio that morning, lol 1 tho atorjr of that trip tu Ui writer II aal.li "That waa 11m mot thrilling ejprrl trie of in? life, laawlli wngotit ru toon m (lookln dl 1. nn 1 mad read to Jump off I heard tho click of tho ralro and Ml tho old onglno jump aa If th wai trying to link henclf loom from Uio can. 1 ho train htld her to tho Iron ortbaturel would hav left It. "Ooolln't ejra wer filed on th croatlng 111 countenance, riecpt for th llatli c f Ma ryoand tlio com prvaalon of hla lips wu liiimntabl aa If cut from Hone. Tho train avemed tu Lo tiring ThohbKc wcro ovldrntljr nlioad In tlin rar to tho crowing Tli'jr would get therv Oral, but would thtjr Citorcrl "On they rftinc, running aa linnet wll 1 with fright only rati mn, an I on wo aped m If trjlug to meet them, col lido Willi nnl etpludo th wngunlnal of powder Great Hcutt, how thou linrx- did run I It had only betn n iiilnul or two tinea wo lint u tho waeotw. ItMwiueilllkttnllMlma Wo had only run n inlto i r two, but It aettiicd no It wo lial run nrounl tho world. Tliaipaeobetwmi thormtlua an 1 wagon olotiil. lliey vera A par-tut! par-tut! at tho croaalng toother Th accon 1 team waa ao cIkm tliat Itihoraea and wagon lauit b piled up on wreck ot cngtuo and rara In n wound dill tlim. "Aa tho fet ot tliolioraeaof tho trail Ing tram touched thotrackat lliscrow lug I abut my yr In horror to nwult th coIUalou and th ciplmlon whlrh I waa aura would follow Tho train How (iter tlio cpulng In aafrty. Th lint train bad UnUn tliotm,Iiiandrlrarrd thotruek. VnlndpacdUtentha tnowaguna. I ojicnod my yr and looked bock to nolo what hail ocuinvL Tho Ont tram waa paxlng toward th I Ictj Uiaacoond onowaa atlll on th ueataldoof tho traeka with tho wagon ovcrtuniod It lia I lnvii ao mar that tho honea, tiuulnit anddeuly to nvol 1 th rutliUy taln, luul upart th wagon. That train went Into Wlluilugton at full apecd. (lookln blow t ? I rakra andlhutortite.ini Intloi to atop at tho atatlon, but when tliat waa done hla Uirica cava out anl ha waa hrlwd from tho ciylna" Wilmington Aowt. |