| Show IIIDINO OVER AN EARTHQUAKE I Niirl 1 Train Eperlenre nf an Anran Traeler I Hiding oo a train over ground shaken by earthquake Is I the novel experience ex-perience of a Constantinople correspondent corres-pondent of the Cincinnati Tribune He thus dwerlbvs It i All at once lhIn nlr grew still an oppressive silence teemed to hang on i vale and hill 1 and f II the people iwo i stopped short It teemed to me that I we ran Into a bad piece ot Irack or that our train had auddenly rjulckenel Its pace I saw a Servian woman with a child < In her arms nagger slop lake the water jug from her head and hug her frightened baby to her naked brut Hundred of yoke cattle were lowing burros were braying nnd the whole flocks of sheep were crying on the illnlanl downs Meantime the curves teemed to Increase and although al-though no worn not making room than forty miles an hour we appeared to fairly fly Men food still and stared at the heavens A Mohammedan Moham-medan slid down < from a pack auto spread out his prayer rug set his face toward Mecca and prayed Christiana crossed themiclvea nnd as often at I stole n glance at the driver I found him looking at me Till now I hail attributed Iho nctlon nf Iheso wllil people peo-ple to rhlldlnh wonder nt seeing the train sweep by but when I looked nl the almost pale face of the sun browned driver I nns bewildered Tho Ihlngs I beheld were nil so unnatural thai I felt my head iwlmmlng Glancing Glanc-ing ahead I saw the straight track take on curves nod hako them out again resembling a running snake Tho valley had become n narrow gulch and from the near hllli aroie great clouds of smoke ns from a quarry when the shots go oft Tho fireman who had been buy at tho furnace door Hood up now nnd gazed at the driver who pressed his left hand over his eyes then took It off nod tried to see bill mailo rm attempt to check the speed of the train As n drunken cowboy du down n slrnlght street iwayt In ills saddle as n wounded bird reels through tho nlrdlll this mail monster ot n locomotive loco-motive swine nod sAlm over tho wrlthlin rail Suddenly n great curve npperrod l In front of us This limo the choker who had left oR firing saw It nnd mode Ihe sign of the cross Again Ibo driver hid < his c > vs and < again I felt my brain crowing illziy trying to understand We could hear aril feel tho refine wheela rbo nnd tall on the twilling mil with n deafening sound At Imt she settled down and began to glide away aa n boat glide < down n running stream What li liT I nsked of Iho French fireman Trom Moment do terre ho said shaking hlmtelf violently and fainting to Ibo floor and then I understood that wo i boil been riding over nn earthquake The driver was illher too proud and brave to stop or too frightened lo bo Ablo lo shut off iteam I dont know which |
