Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-11-03

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road. -Thepastweek will remain prom
inent in the annals of the d. & S. c. r..
II. Company, as one abundant in diff
culties and grievous in tribulations. 7s#s
On last Friday evening, to start with,
Conductor Tim Kellogg's train got off
the track about two miles this side OF
Ackley, and men, women and children
had to walk to that station, over the
desolate prairie and through the blind
ing, horrible storm. IT was late Satur-
day evening when the train passed this
place on it's eastward trip. Railroad
men can only safety guess what had
transpired i'm the mean time.
On Saturday Cy Cawley's train did
not reach this place, till six o'clock in
the evening, having been detained over
two hours for repairs on a bridge, which,
by settling twelve inches immediately
after the passage of a freight train, had
given indications of Instability. Cyl
stopped OF here, to take refreshments
and press Inquiries in regard to the
missing Conductor. In convocation
of Tins friends in wa6 decided, in alb
sence of any knowledge OF the true facts,
that that heroic spirit must have sur k
under some mountain Of snow, or dis
appeared into some ineXecutable posit-
ion of some sort or other, by means that
could not be satisfactorily settled upon,
The eonyoeation, being diligent friends
of Tim, were on the point of starting
out, accompanied by MI. Ssquibob's dog,
to solve the mystery, wlren a'rumbling
noise attracted their attention, and soon
after Tim's train hove into sight, and
iSquibob's dog Bounded Off in great
glee to bark at the headlight.
On Monday freight train got off the
track to play in the mud near the viii
lage of Jessup, which, owing to the
length of the play, caused the westward
bound passenger and Heights to pass
the dreary night at Independence. So
Monday went to the shade and Tuesday
came to the light. SO 3ssz - ars 5sa--s
Tim put back to Dubuque, that being
his duty, and left the road and.the west
for the. exploratory genius of cy. The
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freight which the day before had an en-
barge Mt Jessup, in the mean time was
placed on its careering journey toward
the eastern terminus. Unfortunately,
however, it got no farther than the vi
vinity of Manchester when it bounced
from the rails again. and left Cy in a
predicament noticable Ser iocs similarity
to that which Tim had just relieved
himself from But, is good fortune
would have it, the delay was no so long,
and Cy drove into Cedar Falls about ten
o'clock in the evening. 10 - az.
On Wednesday evening the train a.
rived as early az six o clock, only two
hours behind time, which was general
ly considered quite creditable indeed
The brief delay was, probably OCCASION
ed by some of the sloughs and smud-
holes. At least we have not heard that
train was off the track. ii8H
I'VE cannotawait news Of yesterdays
efforts, hut dare say the train run off
the track, was cafiulnmuxedti in soft
piece ofground, monp ted asow oraspig
and went to grass, met an unfortunate
freight, or at least done something that
kept people running to the Postofice for
an indefinite number of honrs TO inquire
if the mail had come. -
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