Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-06-04

speak Of, Jackey, sister "gooses," they
seemed to be enchanted and charmed.
There was probably fifty Of 'em. But
knew they couldn' do any harm if there'd
been fifty million of 'em, let her out a
screw OF, two on the throttle, Just to see
them fly. You'd ought to see them.
Twas just fun. Some of them went up
forty or fifty feet. They went up on all
sides and you would think lot of boys
were snowballipg my engine. Two Of
them LIT down in the coal in the tender,
and one came whiting in the cab-window
My fireman and had roast goose for
dinner that day, and each took one goose
home. The engine was covered with
blood, geese and feathers, and from her
appearance you'd surely think Mother
Goose had been picking that day."
"You know, "kbe,' the day l hoisted
up George Haggerty's caboose several
years ago, and came near killing poor old
Georgea "Well,' committed Jackey, "that
wasn't much of an adventure, so I'll tell
you what Tom Wilmoth, who used to run
on the Susquehanna division, once told
me about chasing for miles a herd of
horses. He said he overlook them one
day oil a straight level sttetch seven
miles long, and instead of being fright
ened of the track with the whistle and
bell, up went their ears, and straight
ahead they bolted. Tom , said he was
travelling all of it not moro than thirty
miles an hour. He had light freight
tram, and of course was violating the
rules of the road at that speed, but as
he had to NIKE station ahead of
tirst-class train, he had to skip along
lively to do it. He couldn't slack up
speed bit, for if he did he'd hold the
frst-class. So, with blowing every quar-
ter minute, he kept on, with the horses
on clear run ahead Of him. He said
he run that fiat stretch for miles and
miles, and every little willie the horses,
as if aagry at the wonderful speed he
was making them grow, threw up their
tells defiantly and kicked up their heels
furlously, just like they invariably do in
an open field when you run by them.
Tom said it was truly wonderful how
they kept ahead on the track. for at least
six miles, and only went off the track
when bridge was reached, over which
they Gould not 60. Part of them went
off one side and the rest On the other side
and then he went on and telegrarhed
back to the nearest Office to send out
ttackmen to put them off the track
it possible before the express came along.
Fortunately the express was little late,
and they got on: Of the way in time. Tom
also said that the horses were as vet and
white with foam as if they had just been
lathered with soap. He didn't believe
deer could do what those horses did, and
he always did recommended the owners
of running hsrses, if they wanted to get
railroad speed out of their runners, to
frighten them good with locomotive
whistle and bell, and they'd clean the
deck"
20, that's nothing" tacetiously ro-
marked Carpenter. '"Jule Parker once
told me about his running after a two
full-grown bucks on Southern railroad. y
Parker was chivalrous daredevil South
ern engineer than running the lightning
express on the eastern division of the
Erie. "He said," Carpenter went on to
relate, "that a pair Of bucks suddenly
bounded upon the track from thick
woods, and so frightened we're they from
the roar of the approaching train that
they started down the track not more
than twenty feet IN front Of the engine.
Parker put on all the steam his boiler
would make, and carried his train along
at break neck speed, but, in spite of his
hreman's efforts, he could not turn his
driver fast enough to overtake the
feet deer. He never said how fast he
was running at the time, but I knew the
man, and when he tolo that he was 60
ing at break neck speed we can imag-
inc something about it. The road was q
splendid one for speed. It was mostly
new; the bed was in prime order, but
Notwithstanding his engine chawed up
fuel as fast as his fireman could feed it to
her. he could not run the deer down. 1t
looks astounding, but he said he chased
them after run OF ten miles into q vii
lage. There they left the track, ran up
and down the streets as wild as cows,
and scared the people into spasms; but
before doing any serious harm they were
shot and captured. Parker said he
greatly enjoyed the venison steaks that
were afterwards presented to him
BY an, old bootmaker sixty years old who
was the lucky shot. :" Il
""Did you ever hear sHughey' William
son tell of his adventure at Washington
vile, on the Newburg branch9" asked
Carpenter. Williamson is another know
no danger runner, and is now on: the
road. Fisk selected him because of his
courage to run the relief train. "Well,"
he went to say, s.that was q rarity, and
one that seldom occurs. Williamson
was in Newburg when hewas telegraphed
to run to Greycourt to assist In pulling
big six-wheeler on the track that had
run Off switch and couldn't get back
herself, as they sometimes do, You know.
OF course time was an important thing
as the engine that was off blocked up
the Westward bound main track. He
started iron Newburg with nothing but
his engine, and, having clear road, you
can just bet he flew. He left the rails
echoing behind like q neverending water
fall. The station agent 1t Wallis rate
rushed out wild with fright, thinking
1t was runaway engine, nobody on it,
lAn Salisbury Mills, tho population Of
which village Is but ! few FEET trom the
track rushed out Of their houses utterly
dismayed and unable to believe their
own eyes. They thought it was spec
tre, which they could not describe, "a
suddenly did it appear and IS quickly
vanish again from night, Over the
Washing tonville. dats the gait Wa 60 rap
i'd the telegraph poles looked like blades
Iof grass, they were 60 thick. AfieY