The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-06-24
CHASED BY A TRAIN ON FIRE
IN ENGTNEER's STORY or ms MOST
HONDERFUL ADVENTURE
Dangers of y Down Grnde Eighty Miles AN
Hour-A Flying Conh"gration The Race
for I,tfc-A switch Tenders prowptne-s.

DUNKTRK, N Y, juno 15.--"Ivc been
down the bank moron onco an had few bad
smash ups in tho twenty Year I've run loco
motive. but the closest call ever had was the
time | was chased from Mayvillc TO Brocton
junction by nm oil train all ailre. KIN almost
feel my hair turn white now whom | think o
that"
He WINS one Of the oldest engineers on the
Lake Shore road. and WIS riding me on his en-
ginc from Brocton TO Dunkirk
81 was on the Buffalo. Cory and Eric road
then. II wns in lsG9-August the seventeenth.
The bit o. track 'twixt Mayvic and Brocton IL
about the crookcdcst an stcepcst stretch there
| is in the country. It's ten milo from one place
10 tohcr, but the twists in the road makes il
! fourteen. The grade s bout eighty foot { tn
mile. The road y 80 crooked that it's a standin
! Joke 'mong tn boys that thcy dnsn't put moren
ten cars in train er the cnginc'll butt the ca
booso certain. The road runs down into tho
Pcnnsylvany oil country. an heaps o. petroleum
is. run over it, That night bout o'clock. |
was gettin ready t. leave til summit with n box
car. six oil cars an two passenger cnrs. Tn
latter was full tn box ear had two valuable
trottin horses in il. | got the signal from tn
conductor TO 20 ahead. and started her up. We
was under to'be hcndway when l sec
flames bust out'n one 3 the oil cars.
whsiled down brakes. Tho passcn-
ger car was cut loose. an the brakes
put on We cut the engine and box ear of from
the bunin' cars. an thinkin' the brakcsmen
"a stop them. pulled on slowly down the hill.
But pretty soon soc WIS in n fix. The oil cars
wasn't stopped. an they came u tcarin down
the grade after us an fare could xiv" my en-
/ gnc speed 'nOugh to KIT outn the way. ker-
| boom. they cumc gnst the box car smashin in
| one md. AMI knorkin tn horses an their keep
crs Hat ON IN locr It's mighty wonder tn
shock didn't knock "a engine on N track. an
i did eive her n awful hussrlin'; But she set
| tied down her work, = II she know u We vas
bound to have race fer life
Lord. how them flames roarcdi Every in
/ formal ear was ailre now, an III heat was
| terrible. could hear them hosscs fairly scream
with terror. Both IL keepers glume w { tn
gnd % ia gar neg I ia, engine could So 10y
was = whit ~ chalk. an they hollerrd me-
Th"y don't Know I hnd her pulled wide
open. an was tnarin down that eighty foot
grade at nearly eighty mile an hour. She went
- fast so help me God. that she quit pumpin'.
We shot round them curves Ike a streak q
lghtn'n, an ev'ry time we'd strike one I
struck us. W. mad" zap 81 about ten
foot htw"en them and us. an We
Poor jimmy Keenan, was my fireman. lie
was ra."i Tor bout minute, when the hurn.n
tf.ci +" 10 , III N. tui sralb him and htiI
him tan ile cum to himS IT, and ho stu h to the
old rol like man. Jimmy got killed. IN pickin'
a>uuns onr"n IN track al, al of AN eNpr11is
train, near Cory. "a year or two altcrw'd. H.
SAY II the yonu- one, though. -
II WIS ihlh night an though iet tle
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