New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-25

,ad eWrl,i Me sullpei ani alec. 80 ,a's'hsh'" '"
stance eteseerp nem what mlnh see'" ce''e'" dea'h
n, .,o, Ia related 10 noa, no rosHllie. 10 Tho words
ut tho Mail Ancut hlmseif
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Mail As,n, and go The day IN which Tho mhw'"g pV'"'
...u,,td vihh vac ~ Saturday. about tho middle "'
Mey Ia oaa running down With one 81 ne h"sn""
made num g. a. u. Tho dispatch "i 'ha'e trans
ra.hsoeulan and depended uron The viii Of iba 'ho'
r,4imater and they have since j "nh' boo" '"''oV
ri,,nup ,,
Al nteu, az NJ We reached s., that busiest and prc'
deaf of an to inland Now England ooa Tho trees were
u,t ru,ing on ic lrp garment Of hcnh green leaves
tho wide acdn began shine with vcrdurc nnd every boy
and rl have just found Some now sport and to
utter Kind of shout, ~ wa dashed into the OH
d,pdt with n Shrek hom The engine "a very powerful ono
Of the ir cnss called the Htna enough to take hair
OF bs head An had the train nst one car behind
the tender carrying the great mails, some valuable express
nn,,r and live brakeman | used TO think myself
rrat man In those days when I inrused with some
tines half million Of property, but had good reason TO
change my mind before with this specaltn trip
tina, III be bound What is any amount Of dollars and
cents compared with the risks that man must run who IS
Of the head Of an express mail train. We halted in the
$ depot iuft long enough TO wood and water, seize
uron mug OF piping hot chickory flee, and bit OF
greasy paste concealing slab Of dried apple sauce and
called in courtesy pic-when sprngng on the train we
left IL station somewhat before sunset and soon fly
ING along at hcadong pace in the direction OF the sea
| board.
Now doubt not to You and other gentlemen who are in
the habit of sitting in comfortable railroad car on stuffed
sent reading the last from Eurpe or the pages OF
some entertaining novel, the mode of travel and the various
little incidents on the road very delightful But the
thing is very different when you perched on the seat of
the engine and going down eroad at the rate OF fifty miles
nm hour velocity not rarely attained where the track in
good order and getting the ground the sole consdera
on in view could no. endure the solitude of the mail
car and almost uniformly sat forward even when was
stormy and conceive of few things more Astonishing
and at the time empowering to sensitive person,
than tina. of nghttrp, when you cannot see an inch
ahead unless you the engineers window and you sit
swayng about after the engine Tor machine as iii fRcar'a
Uy called by employfs which every moment as fit
would fling itself off the track it continually says and
eans from one side the other Ia the passenger no
idea rLoerer of the speed Of the momentum can be OBJ
tanned this only be got by standing near The track as
the train whzzes by being upon the engine or tender
There is in addition 10 the jerks and motion ahead uui
versa compound hideous noise made Of steam zzng the
shrek of the whistle which seems TO be on
fast train as is the to whistle at every crossing and
a general groanng of wheels chains axes. and the
soueh of the wind as it draws through the engine In
fact take quiet man out Of his paor some stormy evening"
with an eastery breeze, from comfortable conab with his
better half and put him the engine of a maltran de-
vourng the darkness at the rate Of ortyfve miles an
hour and if he recover from the shock in six months he
will have considerably iron in his nerves than most
slow coaches / have known.
But on the evening question had fair weather and
daylight suffice TO last good way down first rate
engine, and clear run to W, so far as we knew
"a fair prospect for good trip, said to the engineer
before starting
ut looks well enough nor, was his reply. And little
enough time TO do it in, only wish the merchants OF
P-bad TO run these mail trains for themselves and
take the beggarly wages get for the business Ill be
bound they would scape Their precious bones over the
road more than once and then twenty miles hour would
take the breath out Of their bodies
Thompson the engineer this trip had ridden with
before He tall black haired man from the State OF
great driver and silent as death on the road
He kept his eye fixed steadily the track except when he
timing bis speed That he possessed tine unscrupuous
presence mind persons call reckessness posi-
bly, demanded by the driver OF fast train will be shown by
the incident that follows:
We had come along very well, and were some way past
y W, think might have been going at the :
rate of thirty five miles an hour common running time
There was here slight in the road and on getting
round heard Thompson cry o1t at the utmost power OF
his lungs mot Of much account to be sure in the din OF the
engine)-"T There is something on the road Hold on for
your lives" And he said this, he put the whole &
force on the engine and let off tine full power of the
whistle in Shrek of such concentrated agony that it ap
peared tho entire chorus Of Pandemonum had been
Let loose and then in another second there was tremen
dous crash mighty jar that threw me fiat on the floor OF
the CINE and univ ersal crashing of timber rafting OF
who's and something ike the death shrek OF man or
beast And in another second all this agony the
engine was revened, the brakes put on and Thompson
exclaimed We have run down train Mr. Collins, and
though our time is short believe il is but duty to run
back and sec if anybody is killed Thompson and
thueupon jumped Off and ran back about twenty yards,
when we saw in an the terrific danger had past
and the nature Of the accident party of Irish laborer
were standing the side ofthe road and the engineer
Of the train we bad down red headed Lowland Scot
by the name Of McGies told how it had all happened
up into eravelpt, with about thirty on board the
dirt cars and car with two horses in II; / knew
you would be along, and l believed had time
enough TO get the switch, back of my train and put
oy,ry thing in order before you would be here
Bot on hue az l live a, this moment, hadn't run down
more Than enough get my last to the gravel
trhcl end a. for the switch had not it, before
heard you believe considered a second about it, and
mid TO nyself II this switch now both trains will be
altogether broke up II leave the train, my men will at
hsa be safe and hc will have some chance OF running
over or through IT, Jump mcn-jump for your lives"
WA all ssd and did and cleared ourselves and that
10 Inst Il, and What will tho Governor bc spanking
about M the Ir,hmnn says The nature Of the ground
WINS MI that favod tho mail train little plane sldo
had been cut down for gravel. and tho road laid siding
while on the right hand an ombankment went down con
siderable distance and small pond pool Mt the bottom
Of This bank were tho Victims Of speed aud Ihompsons
n .f.t Tho