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Show I A Rauawtty LoeuiuolUe Hr.it Hmuy Ulmmp. j j ' ' Early one morning the engineer and : : flrommi uf tho buuiu 1 ovurlaud train, i l ' bound ciut, when iieur Cajun pawn, im- ' agined they now aomothiug ou the truck 1 lj j right ahead. Thinking the train win 1' , alrtut to be wreekod tiny both jiimpetl. Tho viigtiicarwue ruthor baillyhurt, but wheu tho lircnmi picked himaelf up out of thednat lieftmnd that thveuglue hud znadi) kindling wood of a wugou to which two I) Mi-Hen hud bwm attmbed. Their driver hud aeeu the headlight of tho engine end had jumped lu tune to uvo h hums If, and tho uuiinuU them 1 aelvea were vnipping the dried gran a lung the roudaiiio, which elmwcd thut thuy hud uut touu greutly dikturbud by t the actndeiit. Hut the train, with nobody at the cn giuu'a throttle, wm plunging uwuy through the diukueria, thu puhwuiifura anltep iu their berthn, utterly uncou acioua thut they woro bviug drawu Ly a wild locuiuuuvu. ... . The fireman, who had hten left behind, be-hind, thought he would try to overtako tlio flying train on foot. Thn he changed hi mind and, jumping a trifle one nf the horxf, ho act out after the runaway train. He knew It mm atop abort ly, a It had to climb a vrry Bleep grade, and if the Are under tho boiler wna not kept up the Bnpply of at win would nt furnish fur-nish Blirtlcirnt preMiire tfi keep the whwla going around. The vngrmit train did tp a mile ami a half from whero tho accident occurred. T I tore iltd not Bemn to Ini any reason for an Interruption Interrup-tion of the jonrnny Jot at that point, and bo thncotiductnr and hiiikemnii hnr rled ahead with their lantern to ak tho engineer what had given jt. When they found the rub empty, of murpo the tralnhunda wern very much tnVNiiflcd. TheyaKked each other a good many quentlona, and were etigag'd In IrHiking up theoTlee to account for the atrange iliappearance of the engine crow when the fireman came loping along on the horae he had borrowed. After eiplanntiou had bcn made, ho turned hi horne toward thia city and brought the flrat tiding the rtillroud toople had nf the muring train. A hack woa aont oot to the are tie with another engineer, and aa aoon aa a tea in won raided the overland went on over the hill through CaJ-m paw. The anme car-riugo car-riugo brought the injured rnumeur to the city. Hw t'ranciNce Kiiimluer. |
