Show FAMOUS ADLI 9 HUNTER the wrong train by FLOYD GIBBONS OU know boys and girls hope is a wonderful thing thin YOU be doggoned if I 1 know what the human race w do at ll 11 ot VC out it when things look the blackest when it seems to toy you a chance to pull through then its hope that chati jell you going until your luck turns or things begin to 6 themselves out hope has saved many a life and im going to ten tell you i life ble it saved today the life of a man who got himself into a barril hors w lt bation just by taking the wrong train dr 9 the man is joe ot of chicago one evening it t november in the ear car 1907 joe was standing on the platform 2 pl the railroad in the little town of tyrone okla baitin S V for or a train li was a cold night and joe shivered and p 4 r coat tighter about him as he paced up and down that 11 platform plat lat tonn form at it the local train to 15 joe was waiting for no 1 the local but it was late that ev imi J unknown to joe it had been sidetracked to let no 3 the lilii it at last a train came in sight and began to slow down a that must bs be the local joe thought the other trains never aln u 0 at little stations like tyrone the engine came up to the depot clatia et amov moving ing very slowly a string of cars along behind k the vestibule doors of the cars were still closed but joe th train would stop in a few seconds and then those doors would open nn arcq sy to save himself a walk down dow n the 1 platform I 1 A he i swung abo ard ou V the cars standing on the little ledge that protruded from belai et closed door and at i 1 the l same time grabbing T han the tl two 1 hand holdis hasi 1 S l ii either side it but the train come to a stop instead I 1 it t rolled on past the station platform and began to pick up speed t when joe should have acted he knew right away thaiL 14 V made a mistake realized that he had hopped on the golden sd r limited instead of the local t 1 I should have jumped from the train right there he says tal kl I 1 was waiting for a be better ater place to do it we were gliding over sa r and spur tracks at the moment and I 1 was afraid I 1 might trip on thead j turn an ankle going too fast for joe to jump yes joe might even have broken a leg if hed jumped there udy mag his feet tangled up with those switches and spurs but what ht a do nearly earned him a broken heckl by the time the train cabull a suitable spot in which to jump it was going so fast that joe na DAB jump inside of two minutes it had picked up its full speed and was ping off the miles at the rate of sixty or more an hour and there joe hung digging his toes into a little ledge hardly no than an inch wide on a bitter cold night while the wind tore at him hind W his plight was well nigh hopeless threatened to wrench him loose he pressed his face to the glass dx i ati but he rap on it the wind was so strong that he ai w let go of either one of the hand holds ile he yelled yelled at the top of his bis voice but the train wil ml making so much noise and the wind whipped his voice away 0 fas that no one heard him joe began wondering if he could hang on until the train itaw hooker the next station a few miles away then with a sa s1 sensation in the pit of his stomach he realized that this tram train W 01 even hesitate at hooker its next stop was dalhart tex ninety MW a BEYOND hooker and he knew darned good and well that he never hang on that long hope was all he had left the concussion of the air on my body he says was forcing forc lc 91 back against the rear hand hold it was bitter cold i I 1 envied eve son on that train whether it was a baby in a comfortable berthoty bertl bert hOti burn bum on the rods beneath the train i joes plight was pretty well nigh hopeless but hop hopelessness eless ness doea oco stop a guy from hoping and hope was all joe had left now 0 gan hoping the train would for some reason stop at hooker the train rain rolled on now it was just a mile outside of HIX now it was s coming into the town it passed hooker without even 0 ii ing down and zipped right along toward guymon the next station on is line then joe began hoping the train would stop at guymon it w was as a pretty forlorn hope but it gave joe something to w live tor for we ran over some pretty rough country in the twenty miles hooker and guymon he says there were a couple of high aresu trestles dandy places for a fellow in my position to commit suicide if be aeria ff minded to stick it out and see the natural outcome of the adventure but joe dive off of any trestles hope was was still with w hla y telling him the train might stop and joe played along even knew I lope hope was a doggone liar and it would be a mira miracle cle if that w tro stopped anywhere between there and dalhart then came the miracle iracle Bl I 1 joes joel hands were getting stiff with the cold and he was bam it difficulty hanging on an around the curves he knew that when they ggs pi guymon he be able to pla play y that game of hope much longet soon his numbed hands would let go and hed just drop off they were a approaching guymon now and joe figured I 1 MS his w time earth was just about up the train was roaring down on th me e salta s when suddenly the miracle happened T the ile brakes began to grind the train began to slow down and up ahead joe could see sec a red light and the arm arill ol of A gems tva set at the stop signal they stopped at the depot and several men ran out to ro aske ie down from his insecure ins acure perch iii lia 1 cpr I was stiff as a board lie he says my eyes were full of cinders n my face black as coal I 1 was frozen I 1 was tak taken en in into to the depot pa i volt out questioned and on my luc luck k when I 1 asked bad made her stop they showed me a message e someone at ow seen me and wired ahead and the message read man seen hanging on front fro nt steps hand side ide fifth coach of golden limited stop her 0 service |