New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-04-21

~ APR1L II 1850.
every second faster and faster, not one
aOf them made move to Jump from the.
wagon. When I struck them they had
not m, yed step from tile spot where
! first saw them. When the train
stopped got settled, but COT: hardly
recall what I had Just seen. .Iy fire.
man said: Let's 60 back and see Il
they nre killed; but couldn't stand it
and didn't 20. back. 1t turned out hap
PLY that the only one killed was the
horse who had baked. When the en-
CINE hit him he was directly between
the two rails, and being struck with
such force broke loose from the wagon
and was sent twenty feet in the air,
landing in q culvcrt with his neck
broken and mutilated in horrible
manner. The man and the two ladies
were more frightened, like myself, than
hurt. They were all pitched with the
wagon into the gutter on the side Of the
track, and beyond being roughly ham
died and receiving several scratches
and bruises, nothing serious befel
arm was broken. The nearest house
was opened to them and We went on. I
being unstrunp and hardly capable Of
running the rest of the trin. / tell Won
I will never forget that experience, and
several times since it happened the
horrible sight has come to me in my
dreams.'',
"Well," put in Carpenter. ST have
never killed = human being vet. hut wa
can't tell how soon we wilt The near.
est I ever come to It was at the time /
struck the tramp between Howell,s and
Middletown. That was = rood while
AGO. anal a. / was able to nearly ston
before I reached him I only. gave him =
light rap, so light that he oniy got leo
broken and q small scalp wound. both
of which he soon got over. after BEING
taken to the county-house. But did I
ever tell YOU about the brood Of geese ]
struck at Sloatsburp once?'' continued
!" Abe" THAI was = funny mishan
and rye laughed over It lots Of. times'
in front Of q WAGON or train. cunnino
and ready to iumn ont Of the wav inst
in the nick Of time. These geese we're
aure oooses, this time. for fhev didn't
hndoe: Ike tha women Won sna.l ~
:Jacfev sister oooses thev SCANNED ~
he enchanted and charmed There WAS
nrohahlv fiftv ~ ,am Int AZ knaw
thew coxldn't do anv harm # thera,d
been fiftv millions of ,em. T let her ont
4 screw or two on the throttle inst to
see them flv. You'd ought to see 'em
Twas inst finn. Some If them went
mn forty or fiftv feet They went nm On
IF Sides and Won would fh;nL that q
1T ~ hovs were snowhall;nr INV on
cine. Two 81 the1fs l;t down n the
coal 81 tho tender and ono came viii
Zinc in the cah-window. NV fireman
and I had roast ronsa for dinner that
dav and each tool ono GOOSE home
The engine Vas covered y;th Hood
oroasa and feathers and from nor az
nearance von'd surely th;nt Mother
Goose had been nick'nc that dav',
you know. Abe The dsy / Roisted
up George Hageerty's caboose several
wears ago. and came near killing moor
old George? Well,' continued Jackey.
that wasn't much Of an adventure, 50
I'll tell you what Tom Wilmoth, who
used to run on the Susquehanna division,
once told me about chasing for miles q
herd of horses. He said he overlook
them one day on straight level
stretch several miles long, and instead
of being frightened off the track with
the whistle and bell, up went their ears,
and straight ahead they bolted. Tom
said he was travelling all Of, if not more
than, thirty miles an hour. He had q
light freight train, and of course was
violating the rules of the road at that
speed, but as he had to make station
ahead of first-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 first-class. So, with blowing
every quarter minute, he kept on, with
the horses on clear run ahead of him.
He said he run on, that flat stretch for
miles and miles, and every little while
the horses, as il angry at the wonderful
speed ne was making them go, threw
up their tails defantly and kicked up
their heels ttriously, just like they IN
varla0ly 40 IN an open neld 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 could not go.
Part of them went off on one side and
the rest on the other side, and then he
went on and telegraphed back to the
nearest Office to send out trackmen to
put them off the track if possible before
the express came along. Fortunately
the express was q little late and they
got out Of they way in time. Tom also
said that the horses were as wet and
white with foam as if they had just
been lathered with soap. He didn't
believe deer could dowhat those horses
did, and he always recommended the
owners Of running horses, if they want
ed to get railroad speed out of their