Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-10-06
WONDERFUL RAILROADING
Row nrc iratn Passes! Another on
IL >.n.tr Irack on thC iuiDn
PaCit:c-'Shc Toughest
Yarn yet.

rr,I ,uurrjDtru,lrut of the Chlcaru.
HurIinvlnn and Quincy railroad. vino
has rryru,iy returned from CoInra,Ip.
,rli, the. trlInWiur exciting story:
Last Saturday our train WAS running
from Denver Chrycnur to connect with
rhr I.uinu Pacific AT Chrynnnr. When
wi,hiu ,.irht.,.n mile, OF t,rrr,y. and
while rurI,i},e up a lrn-mi.r uratte. one
ri tine aHlcs Of III, tender broke. and the
whole train. with the exception ui our
car. WI, thrown from the track and
badly itnmrd up. The assistant -iIprr-
intcud.nt ui the road happened Ia he on
board. and - we surveyed the ruins. he
told Us that there was no cng!nr al
{ hey cuur that could he sent t. our a>-
>i-taurr. and We must ,uuh 10 GrccicN,
and that we were probably booked iuI
an rightrcn-m.." walk To- Cheyenne.
whcr" we would have 10 remain over
SUNDAY. This was decidedly disagree
able tu all ui u a. We had been iu!rrm-
rd that lur;ug the summer the CHEYENNE
jur.rrh-r~ are al Of uu v.tv.,tIun, ami
Consequently there are no religious ser
lIr,.~ tp aftrud
Wh.r thimning of our hard ,uch
hlpprucd tp .ouh bach over thr rn:tl
aNd observed that "" hau b""u running
on an up grade tor a long distance. au'i
at the sane time | remembered that
about fifteen mi"ule> before v" had
( Jumped the track going to Denver. !
tuul:ynt >lruch me that there "a> a WAY
out of our dilemma. :"fur''! Ia the
| engineer and asked h!m II there WAS
/ any up .radr toward Grrrt,.N Ia. said
tina, there, was only omr--u heavy enc
about rirht MILES narn After that Il
wa, oIl down grade ! called tor crow
bars ir.t.,uIl, ,ui two or three tram
men ran OH ,hilr. ur inr1y rods ON e.
th,. rr.,i,i,. ,,.,j duo M, In. bars Yuu
see. lj,,. railroad r,,ul,tu, have ru,,rlinc
IRONS crnwhar, and such ll;ur, ..,,irh-
ed IN lhr Ground all n.nnr tin. road. 50
rs To- ntyr iI,r,n ready plr use al any
time, ihry nave To- krrp them under
lh, ,rr,iluI hrr,,ii>r the air : 80 rarihr,l
that IRON aulall The ruar-,.r metal. when
.>nn.rd in lis action. very soon loose
thrir density. the particle, separating
.,uL ,h, u,.IaI brrnluiuT like - murh
sand. without strength, and prrircI!v Y
Worthless White the BOYS were after
the ,.rnwbarS. rxpainrd To- our party
rh,t hr.i,.yru we would pry uur ear
| rn,., tram ,h,. rnuulir~ win tb. train
.r,l b.,im.r :, dawn ,TrnIr w,. wuuI,I
,.,,rh th,. ,r.,in we had me, We soon
| hal thn r,r rncnuplrd with the aid O,
rrnwh.,rs and :. dozen or more of II.
| s,,rtrI on In. car She "ljdcd aluuu
| ,,.t.r.,nl .,>,,r ,,a,Iu.riu" >urri ever,
second.
NO, hrinr familiar with the grades.
the only lear had was that uur ear
would no, cain sufficient momentum Ia
or,.rr,n. ,h, M Grade. though. ni
cnur>r b,rrd it would We very soon
struck it. and assure You watched
| the progress a! the ear with good deal
| of interest And il lust made il and tina,
WA, all We iurIpcd nil and pushed
her = little and down we started again
on 4 TWENTY-FIVE mile down grade.
| looked ahead and several miles oil could
easily see the tram we were after. but
| n wis almost instantly shut ont from
.i,rb, by uu,. suddenly ruuuium into 4
Isr.,. mass ,t tIyiur ,,r,sshnnnnrs. r,i
IrmtI,. sr,kiur ,n ,iic6, ON thr uronpi
| ". had al, been Standing ON ,h,: plat
farm nm +, mi, ,irur buI when we met
thrs. Sra,>happrr, we were driven INTO
the car. a, rhrI struck our faces with
the force. of haii~tnnr- looking through
the window we could See nothing hut
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