| Show A PLUCKY MAIL AGENT and His Prompt Action on thc Utah TVortliem Saves 825000 In Greenbacks Saturday night after the northbound passenger train on the Utah Northern had left Camas Capt Young in charge of the mail car assorted the mail taken on at Camas and then sat down in the other end of the car from the distributing table which was in the front end of the car and gave his attention to the desk work on hand his back being toward the front end of the car Presently he smelled fire and on turning around was surprised to see a perfect cloud of smoke pouring from beneath above and behind the distributing table and the pigeonhole cases built against the ends and sides of the car He understood at once that a spark from the locomotive had lodged against the front end of the car had been fanned into a blaze and that the rush of the train was driving the smoke and flame back through the burned aperture into the car Among the mail already being licked by the flames was the registered regis-tered matter and among other packages was one for Helena containing 25000 in L currency Capt Young first gave his attention at-tention to saving this little fortune which L he succeeded in doing after scorching his hands and almost suffocating the hot smoke almost like a blast from furnace fur-nace driving him back several times before he succeeded in snatching the treasure from destruction This done he turned his attention towards puttin out the fire which was no easy thing to do as the speed of the train forced the blaze back into the car and fanned it till it roared Besides the fire was in an awkward awk-ward place behind the heavy cases and difficult to get at But cremation threatened threat-ened the captain and prompt action was necessary Just what he did do he does not clearly remember excepting that he put out the lamp in the ay so as to better locate the blaze and then by an economic use of the water in the cooler and dashing dash-ing it directly upon the blazing aperture in the front end of the car succeeded in finally subduing the fire without a great deal of damage being done The passengers and train men knew nothing until reaching the next station of the danger which had < threatened the train and the plucky fight of the gallant captain with an enemy which even the bolts and bars upon Uncle Sams secure mail car could not keep outBlltte InterMountain Inter-Mountain |
