New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-06-12
takes our train out, but the engine is nd

splitting little jets Of steam, and Dick
Knight, atall manly young fellow. was
was coming at that moment down
from the superintende room. He
caught sight Of his old classmates,
i laughed, hesitated and raised his hand
to his hat. 4 ss.,s
Going to speak to him, hey?" said
little Billy MCGEE, anxiously.
:. say not sid Saulter, peremptorily.
eff he chooses to leave the companion
ship of gentlemen, / shall not follow him.
4 talk to mechanics and that sort Of
4 people who Fever had chance to be any-
thing better, but Knight is a social sui
eide, sir!''
That's true,v said MCGEE. /" How
we'll Saulter puts things! y he added aside
- - Social suicide!' Well I shall not
bring him to life.''
Knight saw that the Young men
wished to avoid him, and turned aside
with a bow and a heightened color, while
they hurried into the train.
It was vet five minutes until the time
of starting. 81
The train of passenger-cars was on
the main track (the engine still being
| .detached) and the people were hurry
ing in, most of them coming direct
from the theaters and other places of
amusement. Inside Of the cars and in
the depot there was good deal of Jest
ing and gayety between acquaintance
meeting on their way home, the train.
beng a local one and running only
through suburban villages.
Just then, short distance up the
track, there was a hiss and cry. and
voice shrieked out in horror: GA run
away train on the main track! A run
away trair on the main track! Passen-
gers in the depot! Out Of the cars -
out of the cars!''
A runaway freight-train was on the
track! The fireman had started it for
the purpose of taking it into the freight
depot. By some acclden:, before it had
left the main passenger track, the man
had stumbled as he was at his work
and had nearly fallen upon the ground.
Half stunned, he had jumped up, but
could not catch the moving engine,
which was gaining speed every second,
and had shrieked out his warning.
| ltso happened that the switch tender,
through fright, or from some unexplain-
ed cause, did not move his switch in sea-
son to run the train off the main track,
and now the huge machine, with its train
behind, was rushing toward the train in
the depot with speed that promised IA
tai disaster,
The few officials who were near had
time but to gasp with horror. At the
momont when the cry OF danger was
shrieked out upon the night air, Dick
Knight was attaching his engine to his
passenger train. From the cars and plat
form rosea yell OF frantic terror, in which
Saulter's voice was highest. Death seem
ed rushing upon the people, who had not
time TO get out Of the cars before the
driving train would be upon them.
The officials in the depot watched
Knight with blanched faces.
.Hell be crushed to ,atoms!'' muttered
one stout old man, standing by DR.. Pome-
row. ..ss
But Dick had put steam upon his en-
CINE. Apparently he did not think of
leaving his post. There he stood with
tbs hand on the lever, calm and deter
mined.
His huge. machine sprang forward.
It met the coming locomotive with a
crash that threw both monsters upward,
as if they had risen to wrestle and throw
! each other. Then Dicks engine was
thrown one side,but the force of the runa-
way train was overcome, and themachinery
of the engine SO injured that all move
ment was stopped. Dick was hurled
senseless several feet from the place of
the collision.
The stout old man and Dr. Pomeroy,
with all the other men in the depot, ran
to knight, picked him up and carried
him to the waiting-room, where he was
left with the physicians.
: Well, well,'' said the old gentleman,
i impatiently, assDr. Pomeroy, came out,
show is it?-will he live?'
:" think So. God forbid that should
have to take him home dead to his old
4 fatherp'
: You know him, then? Who is he?
! Why, do you know what / owe him?n
i and his voice broke. NV little. girl is
aboard that train"
4 DR.. Pomroy told Knights story briefly,
informing the old gentleman that he was
thoroughly educated, but that he looked
upon any work as better than dependent
1 idleness. 55s.
Hes the true grit, sir" was the an
1 mated reply. There's no work so hum
I bic that q man cannot show the best quail
j tiles of manhood in it, as we have seen
4 tonight. It is not the daring courage I
approved in him SO much as the presence
3 Of mind, the keen eye,fto see what to do
and how to dosit. Request Mr.. Knight,
4 If you please, to call on me at ten to-mor-
row, he said to the. station master.
1 aWho is that?' asked Fred Saulter,