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Show HERE'S "TllYSTBRT. THE BODY OPTHE MAN COULD NOT UE FOUND. rrotn riHFfl loin (iho. I ! tho Cstonnj. UjUrl m Nvr Sron or lloord of Atoln An UU 1 ailaiir1! blorj. (Washington Letter) doorse It Martin ol Milwaukee, an old-tlmo railroad man now In the notice not-ice of tlio Interstate Commerco Com-minion, Com-minion, tells the following story of his tint trip In Idaho, tnaJo In the fall of 163T "Tho Mecca for railroad men st that tlmo via roratelle, Ida., and there 1 obtained cmilomeiil on tho Oregon Short line as n freight fireman On my first trip out 1 went to the roundhouse round-house After the engine, and as e conio out of the house a black cat Tan acrow tho track Tho engineer waa superstitious, like lots of tither railroad men, and ho Immediately climbed out of the cab, went to tho superintendent and naked to bo excused ex-cused from taking the trip "Wo were dclujcd about an hour In aecurlng another engineer to mako tho trip We got started nt last, and I was particularly alert, aa It was my first trip and t wished to make a good record We were approaching what Is known In that country as Dead Man' gulch, when looking ahead 1 saw a man standing on tho track about 200 feet ahead I reached for the rope and rang the bell on the cnglno for tho purposo of giving him warning, but ho did not appear to hear It, I then called to the engineer " lllll, Bound your whistle. There's a man on tho track who appears to bo cither deaf or drunk "Tho engineer tooted his whistle, but till tho man stuck to his post In t,ho middle of tho track Tho engineer shut off steam, but wo did not come to a stop until we had pissed the spot where ho stood The engineer turned to mo and said "'Didn't lie get off on your sldo?' " 'No,' I replied 'If ho didn't get off on your sldo he'i under tho train.' Then we started out to search for tho remains, tho engineer with his torch and 1 with my lantern, Wo ei-lamlned ei-lamlned tho engine and found no marks 'to Indicate that wo had struck the man. We walked down tho sides of tho train and met tho conductor nnd rear KNCouNTnniNa Tin: ciiiost brnkeman coming forward to see what was tho matter Wo told them we had struck n man, and then the entire crew began tho search, but found nothing. "Wo finally concluded that he had been knocked off the trnrlt Into n swlftrunnlng mountain stream that ran alongside At the next telegraph riatlou north of that point tha conductor con-ductor and engineer reported to the superintendent that wo had killed a mnn In Dead Man's gulrh and could not And the remains, that we bo-lloTCd bo-lloTCd lie had been knocked Into the water and carried away, "Tho superintendent tho next morning morn-ing Issued Instructions to tho section men to patrol tha stream nnd search for tho body, nnd tho search was kept up for live or six days, but nothing ever came of It "Finally the entlro train craw was called heforo tho superintendent and Interrogated, when It was discovered that only tho engineer and myself had seen the man struck by the engine Then tha search was dropped and the subject was discussed by tho rallwny employes as an Incident In their IHei "Two weeks later a prospector came Into Pocatcllo. and reported that ho had found a skeleton In the mountains near the point where wo had seen the man on tho track "It was then learned that when tho rand was being liutlt a grndcr employed em-ployed In Dead Man's gulch had disappeared dis-appeared anil wns supposed to liavo been murdered, but as his body was nover found nothing was dono about It, Tho Incident I have related .gave rUo to the story that the man whom wo saw on tho track was tha ghost of tho murdered grader What do I think about It T It certainly was very strange I saw tha man standing on the track as plainly as I see you, and I saw tho englno pass over tho spot whero ho stood, but thcro wera no marks on the cnglno to show that It had struck a body, nor was there any Jar to the machinery such as one might expect under the circumstances Further than this I am not expressing an opinion " |