Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-01-09

order, but Notwithstanding lis engine
ehawed up fuel rs fast as the fireman
could feed il 10 her, he could not run
the deer down 1t looks astounding
but he said he finally chased them, at
ter run OF ten miles, into village,
There they left the track, ran up and
down the streets As wild AS COWS, and
scared the people into spasms. but be-
fore doing any serious harm were shot
and captured. Parker said he greatly
enjoyed the veniSon steaks that were
afterward presented to him by an old
bootmaker, sixty years old, who was the
lucky shot
did you ever hear 'Hughey' VIII
hanson tell Of his adventure 1t Wash
ingtonville, on the Newburg branch o.
asked Carpenter, Williamson is an.
other know-no.dSnger runner, and Is
now ON the road, Fisk selected him
because of his courage to run the
Chicago rehettraiu. well" he went
on to say, that was rarity, and one
that seldom occurs, Williamson was
in Newburg when he was telegraphed
to run 10 Greycourt 10 assist pulling y
Six-wheeler ON the trSck that had run
ell switch and couldn't get back her
self, rs they sometimes do, you know,
OF course, time WIS All important
thing, AS the engine that was of blocked
up the weStward.houud main track.
He started from Newburg with nothing
but his engine, and having clear road,
YOU can Just bet he flew. He left the
rails echoing behind like IN ever-end-
ing waterfall The station agent at
Wallis gate rushed 10 the door Wild with
fright, thiuking il was runaway en-
CINE, nobody on it. At Salisbury Mills,
which village is but i few feet from the
track, the population rushed ont of
their houses utterly diSmayed and I'M
able to believe their own eyes, They
thought il WAS n specter, which they
could not DIES stihc, 50 suddenly did il
appear aud rs quickly vanish again
from sight. Over the Washlngtonvllle
flats The gait was SO rapid the tele-
graph noles looked like blades of grass,
thcy were 50 thick. After turning the
curves at the Washn,gtopville station
'Hughey espied handicap fun Of
rack.hands, rails, and tools and so
forth. They had no sign Of u tlag out
and did not expect anything along
lie Immediately concluded that he
could not stop in time, SO he only blow
his whistle to warn the men 70 jump
off. There was dozen of 'em and
they had a wonderful narrow escape.
He picked up that handcar, rails and
ali, and sent EN- flying in the air in all
directions. 4 low hand-car, with rails
on it pointing right mt you, is the most
dangerous thing you can possibly hit,
but the rails tins time, instead of pierre
ING every part of the boiler and engine,
swerved of and did little injury. The
dinner kettles of the laborers flew up
like popcorn on trymg-pan, and crow
bars, shovels, pickaXes, tamping-
and spikes, made complete kaleido-
scope in the air. One of the aNles Of
the car, to which was attached one
wheel, bounded over the smokestack
and came crashing through the cab
window on the tireman's side, who was
nearly killed in his great hurry to get
out of the way. The most of the car
landed on the froAt Of the engine, and
before 'Hughey' could stop he had car
ried it through one OF those old.fashioned
covered bridges nearly II quarter of a
mile of. In MI my experience" con-
eluded Carpenter, Il don't think | ever
heard tell OF such miraculous escape
as 'Hughey' had. He must have been
going through the air like All electric
current when he couldn't stop an
empty engine before hitting such u
dangerous thing