Show HIS LAST SCOOP 19 the rhe reporters Reporter 18 ruling passion in death deith it is not so many years ago that tony B p the at tache of a central iowa p paper aper now defunct rode iode out from a southern iowa city one bright MOT morning MIg per perched ched daringly lin gly on the brake of a flat car that wa wag attached to a wild freight and loaded with iron rails he was like other reporters made up of vices and virtues only the first seen by tho the world the latter iatter best known by his intimate friends he ile had bad been in newspaper work for about six years was thoroughly capable and scored more scoops than were ever recorded against him this in the eyes of the city editor insured his entrance ent ranco into paradise to make the story short forty mile out from its starting point the wild freight with a terrible crash went through a bridge down sixty feet and tony sitting on the brake beam when the conductor of the tha train the only one uninjured crawled out of the wreck his eyes fell first on tony lying across the side of a dismantled ln box car on iris chest a beav heavy y rail his legs crushed and d dying beyond him lay a dead brakeman the ile engineer en i neer was buried under hia his machine g e and by a large boulder bowlder was the fireman with a broken back tony was vas conscious and when the conductor reached reache whim him asked for paper and pencil they were found in hia his pocket unable to write himself he dictated this angrily ordering the men who had come up to let him alone C E managing editor star iowa train through bridge at wae was on lyard and am aru hurt will send full particulars at once T B A farmer wae was secured who carried it to the u nearest ea rest station then this buy by true to his duty and not flinching before death eu nering frightful agony and while willing hands sought in to release him from his position dictated a special I 1 of 1600 words to his paper it was with difficulty that he could breathe and every gasp cost him a wrench of agony but he held death back down to the last few lines the killed were and so on ending with the name of tony reporter As A he ended that his eyes filled with teare tears and he looked up wistfully to the conductor who had written the telegram for dimand him and who himself could not keep his tears back tell my mother said tony that I 1 did my duty and boye boys rush that over the wires for lne me its a d scoop it wot over the wires all right and it was a lla scoop coop but before etwas printed tony was dead st 5 paul afan axinn pioneer prey |