The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-10-16
A Runaway Locomotive,

An incident of singular nature oc-
Cured recently on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad near Allentown, Penn. The
engine Antelope, No. 27, with half a
dozen fiat cars, one of which was in
front of the locomotive. This was the
construction train. and the crew were re-
pairing the down track. They neglected
to have their flag out to signal approach
ing trains, and the engineer and firemen
were off the engine. About o'clock No.
43 freight train, Philip Lader, engineer,
came laundering along, and before a
collision could be avoided ran into the
construction train.
The engineer and fireman jumped of
before the crash took place, the former
breaking leg and the latter escaping
with few bruises. The force of the
collision was so great that the pulling
bar" connecting the engine Antelope
with its tender was snapped in two. The
conclusion forced the throttle open, and
the Antelope, with the fat-car in front,
dashed off at lively speed, the laborers
on the track barely escaping with their
lives. The runaway locomotive went
faster and faster every moment, and fair
ly flew along the track. to the consterna-
ton and surprise of the laborers on the
line. In minute the Allentown Fur
mace was reached, and past the immense
establishment of the Allentown Rolling
Mill Company sped the engine with
lightning rapidity.
Several men here narrowly escaped
being run over. A dispatch was sent
down the valley to switch off the run
away and run it aground, but before
this could be accomplished the engine.
when near the Allantown depot, overlook
coal train and dashed into it with
frightful force. For moment the air
was filed with flying coal, broken cars,
kissing steam, etc, and a scene of inde-
scribable confusion followed. OF course
the runaway came to a standstill. The
fiat car was hurried from its truck and
landed some distance from the track in a
demoralized condition.
The cow-catcher, smokestack and cab
| of the Antelope we're badly broken, and
the locomotive machinery more or less
damaged. The rear two coal cars were
demolished and their contents thrown
around promiscuously, some of the coal
being hurled into the air to an altitude
| of seventy-fve feet or more. The track
was obstrueted for an hour, when gen.
| eral traffic was resumed. The freight
engine was considerably damaged and
one freight car was thrown off the track
Mr.. Lauer, the engineer of the freigh
train was taken to St. Luke's Hospital a
South Bethlehem, where amputation o
a leg was performed during the night.
NIGHT LIFE OF YOUNG MEN.-On,
night often destroys whole life. TIL,
leakage of the night keeps the day for
ever empty Night is sins harvesting
| time. More sin and crime are commit
ted in one night than all the days of th,
| week. This is more emphatically trui
| of the city than in the country. TIL
street lamps, like file of soldiers witt
| torch in hand, stretch away in long line
on either sidewalk; the gay colored trans
parancies are ablaze with attractions; th
saloon and billiard halls are brilliantl
illuminated; music sends forth its en-
chantment; the gay company begin +
gather at the haunts and houses of pleas
ure; the gambling dens are afame wit
partial splendor; the theaters are wild
open; the mills of destruction are grind
ing health, honor, happiness, hope, on
of thousands of lives. The city unde
gaslight is not the same as under God
sunlight. The allurements and peri
and pitfalls Of night are hundred fol
deeper and darker and more destructive
| Night life in the city is dark problel
| whose depths and abysses and whirlpool
, make us start back in horror. Ali nigl
long tears are falling, blood is streaming
BRET HAIRS VIEws.-Bret Hart says
ST never see here in Europe q woma
! toiling in the hot fields, or peasal
working to reclaim and fertilize fe
yards Of sterile mountain side, that / {
not come home to my room and abul
/ myself before the little American fl
!. that hangs above my head, and thar
, heaven that live IN Republic whe
! there are men enough TO plow and HI
: and reap, and which has room enous
: on level ground for all its people.
i, A liberal reward will be paid at tt
d Office for lady who has been at o watt
!, ing place this summer and not '.jott
d down few impressions which 8
would not refuse to have Published.