The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1856-10-23
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WESTERLY, R l., THURSDAY, OCTOBER %, 1856.

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that we were dashing along at a speec
; never before Travelled on that road =
Posts, fences, rocks, and trees, flew by
in one undistipguishable mass, and the
carriages now swayed fearfuly, star
tedto my feet and met passenger on
the platform.
He was pale and exhausted. ..
- Sir he gasped, = is Martin Kroller
on the engine = '.. ....-.... ....
Yes | told him. Bad. -..
Holy Virgin /! don't you know
him 2
'Know him?1I repeated. somewhat
puzzled. What do you mean ? He
told me his name was Kroller, and that
be was an engineer, We had no one to
run up the engine and
you took nIM!' interrupted the
man. -.t. ..H
Good heavens, sir, he is as crazy as
a man can be ! He turned his brain over
a new plan for applying steam power.
| saw him at the station, but | did not
recognize him as | was ia hurry
j ust now one of the passengers told me
that your engineers were all gone this
morning, and that you found one that
was a stranger to you. Then | knew
that the man whom | had seen was Mar
tin Kroller ! He escaped from the hos
spitalat Stettin. You must get him of
somehow =
The whole fearful truth was now open.
ed to me. The speed Of the train was
increasing every moment, and | knew
that few more miles. per hour would
surely launch us all to destructi n. !
called to the guard and then made my
way forward as quickly as possible. |
reached the after platform Of the tender,
and there stood kroller, upon the en-.
gine- board, bis hat and coat off bis
long black hair floating wildly in the
wind bis shirt sleeves rolled up !; with
Il pistol in his teeth, and thus glaring
upon the fireman who lay motionless
upon the fuel. The furnace was stuffed
till the very latch Of the door Was red
hot, the whole engine was quivering and
swaying as though it would shiver to
pieces. .... .r.. ...... ...
Kgolier Kroller y | cried at the
of my voice. a...
The crazy engineer started, and seiz-
ed the pistol in his hand Ga how those
great black eyes glared, and how ghastly
and frightfdl the face looked.
Ha |! ha hap be yelled demoniac-
ally, glaring upon me like reused lion
They swore | could not make it But
see ! See my power! See my new en-
CINE | made it | made it ! and
they we're jealous of me. made it,
and when it was done they stole it from
me But I've found it For years
I've been wandering in search Of my
great engine-and they swore it was not
made But I've found it knew i,
when | saw it at Dantzig--and wa
F determined to have it. And I've go
lit! Ho ho! no were off to th'
moon, | say! by the Virgin Mother
/ we'll b. in the moon in four. and d-twent,
hours Down down villain. If 20,
move I'll shoot you =
This last was spoken to the poor fire
man, who at the moment attempted tc
rise and the frightened man sunk back
again. =,
Here's Little Oscue, right ahead =
cried one of the guard.
But even as he spoke, the buildings
were at hand. A sickening sensation
settled upon my heart, for | supposed
we were gone now The houses fiew
by like lightning. | knew it the OH =
GERS there bad turned the switches as
usual, we should be hurled into eternity
in Que fearful crash saw a fash-it
was another engine Il closed my eyes,
but still we thnndercd on. The officers
had seen our speed, and knowing that
we could not haul up at that distance,
they had changed the switch, SO that we
kept right on But there was sure
death ahead if we did not step Only
fifteen miles ahead was the town OF
Schwetz, on the Vistula, aud at the en- :
trance, near the bank OF the river, was
short curve in the road And at the
rate wo wara nav poinp We should be