The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-11-07

anu nOtel coaches, but people were Just
as comfortable then seated in an old box
car with six windows on a side as in
those on the improved plan. The en-.
gines were of a smaller pattern than the
heavy coal-buners at present in use,
and though not as strong, we're capable
OF pulling quite load. Sometimes, in
case of delay, our wood supply would
run out, and then the whole force on the
train was obliged to turn out and cut
enough wood to enable us to make the
nearest station.
"ln the matter of baggage, where
now a spacious new Saratoga or an orna-
mented canvased-covered russell is a
necessity, an old painted wooden chest,
with iron handles, was usual, while a
hair-trunk and carpet-bag seemed a
luxury. There were no baggage
smashers then; they came with modern
Improvements. Our baggage-cars were
simply ordinary box-cars, painted yell
low, with door at each end, and a win
dow and door on the sides; the platforms
were without ratings, But very few
of these cars had even stoke in them,
and were decidedly uncomfortable, be-
ing too hot in summer and very cold in
winter. A ride of thirty or forty miles
in the dead of winter, and not even
time to run into the coach to get warm
Isn't it cheerful thought? But such
was our business, and such was railroad
ing twenty-five years ago.
"Speaking of accidents | will give
you an account of few. Among the
many such familiar to all old railroad
men there was one which most impresses
me, and which happened to the train on
which was running, at Deposit, in the
winter of 1852, think We we're east
ward bound, and while stopping for
dinner at this place the scene occurred.
| had scarcel y seated myself at the table
in tine dining-room before there was
heard Il great yelling and shouting
among the crowd on the train and at the
station. 1t was useless to ask the cause
of this sudden ,outburst, as in a heat of
excitement nobody seemed to know any
thing. Upon rushing out | soon dis
covered freight train coming at II
irightiul speed down the grade from the
summit, and that she must run. into us.
1t was but the work of moment; she
stop; we had no time to get
out. On she crashed, colliding with
terrible force with the rear of our train,
and making a complete wreck of every
thing. AS soon as the passengers be-
came aware of the approaching danger
there was a general panic in that train,
each one struggling with the other to
reach the door, and, consequently, the
loss of life was large, A party of Mo
hawk Indians were in the rear car, and,
being ignorant of this sudden Outburst,
and unable to understand its meaning,
ran hither and thither, some jumping
oft the doomed car, and others rushing
into the forward cars. Among them
was young squaw-the brightest-loOk
ing Indian | ever saw-who ran for the
forward platform of the rear car, which
she succeeded in reaching just as the
train crashed into its rear So sudden
was the jar that she was thrown upon
he track, directly across the rails, and
ler head was severed from her body.
We gathered up the remains, placed
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vas erected, with this inscription: 'Sa-
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'lIGn onilo OF 'he foresC' ny adoptioh
Chiid Oh uod. here her people come
very year anu pay respect 10 the ilein-
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