Show aa 2 SECTION DY BY J PERCY pency BARNITZ copyright 1901 by daily story pub co cc section four was the longest section on the third division of the C and J railroad it was so long and so BO many fatalities had occurred on that stretch ot of road that tho the management decided to call it the middle Divi blon thinking thereby to es ipe the odious name of dead men 8 S action I 1 which it was waa calad d by railroad men the country over but call it what hat they would the management could not trie that particular portion of thir line from the gruesome ili the sections on oil the C and J are not eight ot 01 ten tell mile stretches 0 of track as Is the case on oil cistern lines but instead a and fifty mile stretch la Is tile the equal section meitlon on this important link in the he gibat trans continental stoute and which tra hersea the lout stai state aiom the ked led river to tho the rio illo orande grande henry loi tune was made division superintendent at I 1 olger the terminus of section ahree and the headquarters bead for the new middle division and lie he said bald alvas almaa that it wa wai anything but good fortine fort ine when he was promoted to that position for until his appointment at I 1 olier olger lie ho had never 1 noun that the cup of life could be so full of trouble freight only with alth few capt ions ei cio ii tho the ones onea whom death deemed to single out as aa hla his victims and the of those who were killed led met deaths by falling be heath the cais ams while the trains were trip ewdward between Greg gregson sons s rind and warm because of the hoodoo which rall rail load men said bald was on oil dead mens faction it wis wa almost impossible to secure reputable employed emp loyes for the fi beight eight of the operating de pait ment of tile the middle DI division vision As a consequence the personnel onnel of tho the height fiel glit hain nien on that division was waa oin postil lit evilly of 0 the slum saim ot of the eat eaith tit ali and therefore it Is not to be woride wondered ted at that the life ot of henry im tulle t was not a happy 1 one I ahe I 1 he difficulties he expert encee in handling the 3 freight chews were legion but they nelc as nothing compared to the tic de pi ri easing giessing fact that in n spite of all precautions dath held the middle divi blon in a inner feinier giamp than ever although the middle division passed through it land of weary desolation which with its lint flint like soil its ita boundless bound lebs el e monotony ot of plains was enough lit in itself to depiesse the of almost any man yet the hupf ri it tell dent novel for or a moment that ana on of ills his men committed suicide theta acro cre but few men in his em am ploy that did not use liquor but liquor could handly bo be held account account ible blo toi foi the strange fata lilleStOn DA dad men 13 othni trainmen employed on the division besides ti eight brakemen biank just as hard and pt et theio eie no ila inalie among them than usually on oil tile the botill daiy lalli oad one olio awit in ili eat pail Tant lary the mexican 11 I 1 ei ans A as wi bota between eon and Giogi sons ille hie Intend accompanied ill tho wie ekIng tiala to the scene of the dis aster it was nas a wretched wi etched A heavy beavy bhonn of sleet and rain beat tonn with mith chilling coile on oil that bal ren ni waste aste of land and heal heliy y I 1 oi tulle nado made it its his first duty duly to see that eliat the taken to Oreg Creg sons and there made as aa comtoi ible tible t its aa p possible I 1 in it tile tilt set able adobe building wiling the name of rhe rii r B s rest into of this hos beliy of tile lexas plains was nas a r singular individual lie he nn ai 3 a tall link looking halt brood breed whose boody beady ekes seemed to jow leow with mith a malignant basilon A almi mute lie was unable to intelligibly but stand perfectly ly all thit N was as said to him I 1 heie N vas as something about tile the min that fabein attil henry volture ai lie he watched his hi shifty c at like movi movements menti while dispensing tit atio nile ile looking whisky over his liar bar to the motley of cowboys cobos gathered gatli erod in ill tho ilia foul smelling earth Z 0 dumney billos flooded barroom enli h it nas tile the su sit aull tal but in ill tile the was as st lidell idelli folded upon him that mat in ill some anai va this evidently cl dently ious nian man I 1 its as conn bonneted eted with the mastery ot of atad mens men chis aiila opinion once gieir stronger in ili tile the mind of 0 tile the ln feint ten lent aa 88 time pissed and when some rome weeks after the of 0 tile the mattkan I 1 lyt I 1 a wakeman bi aKeman tumbled between the ars ot of ills his tidle a fi ew milts east cast of gagion s and b rood good huit ha set ab nit hit to inesti late the llie acl lent on oil the assumption tint thit duinink carlos I 1 the proprietor of the is B roat ret was at the tha bottom of it the injured man was taken to the hospital at templeton where he ha was interviewed by henry fortune yes mr loi tulle tune said the brake man 1 did han hae a a drink at carlos just before wo we pulled out 0 Gieg gregson gons s the whole clew had a drink for that matter dut but I 1 don t think it was tile the whisky that affected me ine leat a j it never ill all I 1 etbel times it was jut like this n amr ar an aa 1 I can remember I 1 was walking along the top 0 a lot 0 bo box cars towards tile blont 0 the train when all at once everything seemed to shine like gold then it ch changet inget to white and I 1 felt that I 1 must run run as aa fast as I 1 could pelt felt tightened like and then I 1 couldn coulden t help myself lily stIf anymore and ran till I 1 foil fell from the amin I 1 but I 1 lent y I 1 oi tuna N was as obdurate in his belief tint thit the siti sinister lster looking mute nas BBS to blime for the mortality among his brakemen bia kemen homen despite tile the fact that he had biad not one scintilla of proof to that deflect and employed a private detective agency tit in chicago to work on the case the ibe detective sent by tile the agency to tile the middle division assumta the role of 0 a freight bra kenvin for two weeks lie reported no progress 11 and then ono one night he too fall a victim to the dead mons men s section much to the rss t 1 I couldn coulden t help myself and ran disgust mollification and disappointment of tune when the detective agency was in foamed of the death of their operative and eat nod that lie he had met the pe bullat and mysterious fate of so many brakemen bia kemen tile the became more determined than evet to sift the occurrence to the bottom an I 1 sent sei several eral of their best men to the section pt the cou countey ritty between G Gieg I 1 ebion bons s nind md warm spi springs ings in the I 1 litter itter pirt of I 1 a man claiming to be a it a buer of cattle tot foi a chicago packing ll 11 9 house put up tip it 1 ibe I he rangers rc lust st and on the pretext of aNN awaiting alting the of im letters for days at the little hotel ile he saw that a cic v of height the bir cal carios los would in all ably place two to bottles of liquor upon tile tho coli pushing a bottle in front of oue one or more bli kellien stood one ona day when ahen the offered tile the pseudo stoc stock kmin filled sev bial flask fiam tile tho bottles ot of liquori at anding on oil the shelves beneath the bar I 1 hee he e sont sent to ClIt chicago LagO for analysis sis and a few m weeks later dum duin my cailoa bailos ais 3 awaiting in the jail at templeton on a chairge of pot pol boning and the mystery of alad ui ad mena men s section had been solved A caious cm ions story was nas biou feht out at the dilal of tile the vindictive imle half breed a story too long 1019 to licie toll tell in detail but which was substantially as follows llie analysis of the liquor in the several general flaskis showed that it was ins all of the same cheap baand of but tile the contents contenta of ono one disk was foundton have been heavily bleeped 1 with 1 tile woolly loo loio ni weed eed conin commonly ionly c filled lazy weed need ft a flint nithe to the tha cicat plains legion itil which causes much danrige to the stock of binch men ilia hie action of this polion poison on oil min in small bi 11 till dose dobda 8 la is to cause a shoil period of hallucination or mania lie ac com compacted panted by defective eyesight during which tile the affected poison Is solz selz ed with an dyblie to run it v N is tile tho of this do de to the of the mid dle die DIN ision that hid anibel c tube I 1 them to itin inn along the nis mis of their thain lind and being unable to see chete they incie stepping fall to their carlos admitted nd ad mittel the net hot that eight eaic deaia lack back when the C and F T was first built through tint thit legion lie he vas boating beating his way on oil a height train bout bioni Gi Giep egons sons to rm springs 1 lit hin n lie ansa N as dl 11 con co cherel erel by 0 two 0 bi bialo al c m n who inho threw him the tr aln until that time lie he had been possessed of his full fill ameis of speech lilt but ila ho was as so eo sevc scy icly ciely about the head that the of the biala conti oiling the nocal cal coda became lit in time of at fectea and lie he flolly lost tile tie power to pl the in 11 in in ill ills his fatute bocian aroused ant an after lie opined opened the 11 ringers ringers re rest reit it near licar the railway hallwa station nt at Gieg sona sons he be to blodie ro revenge ongel I 1 on oil all fiell lit bia lita keinen kenien running tast waid float that hit joint ills ilia devilish delill sh anning led him to use tile the loco joen abed ad the best to that re eite as L was nias familiar with its et ef feet pet upon illicit tile the cattle an alli willell which ton altI tilt tho ilaine of lexa eal ite ile was wag dechal ed annne by tw the jury which t to I 1 hini him and he was nas sent to ohp state asylum for in insane vine for life |