Show ched ch ed by n wild car 1 I was chadell once by a box boxcar car said harry G I 1 moore loore A an cs ex railroad man mail it was out in colorado tho the land of steep grades and sharp curves we were sliding down the mountains one day with a im baggage gage car and two coaches I 1 was on the rear platform looking at the road N when lien I 1 descried a box car coming down the grade at a rate of speed that was appalling if it struck us wo we were gone sure for it would smash tho the entire trap tram into kindling wood and pile it up in one ono of the gorges ou on only hope was either to katrun or wreck it the engineer caught sight of it at the samo instant that I 1 did and put the lover down among the tallow pots it appeared impossible that we could hold tho the track oa on tho the sharp curves while moving more than a mile milon a minute but wo we did and tho the box car continued to saw wood if wo could once get to the foot of tha tile grade we would lie ho safe but that was soon evento seen to be impossible rapidly as wo we were going iho the box car continued to gain upon us and now wo we could see that it was load loaded lel with iron something must bo done and that quickly all the passengers had fled into abo forward coach and were hanging banging on oil to the seats I 1 signaled the engineer to shut off set a brake liard hard on the rear coach pulled the pin and the engineer open opened the throttle wo had not gone yards before the bux box car ran into tho the coach and sent splinters flying a quarter of a ini mile lehigh high both went plunging over into a 1 chasm st louis globe democrat |