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

But I've heered it limited somewhere.
That IN heavens golden gates
Things Is everlasting cheerful
Blieve that's what the Bible states.
Likewise there folks don't get hungry; -.
80 good people when they dies.
Finds themselves well fixed forever
Joe, my boy, wot ails yer eyess
Thought they looked little sineler,
:. Oh, no? Don't you haye no fear;
Heaven was made fur such as you Is!
Joe, wot makes you looks so queer?
oe, my boy! Hold up your head!
Here's your flowers, you dropned 'em Joeyi
Oh, my God, can Joe be deadl
PERILS OF THE RAIL:
Yarns Spun by Two Railway Engi neers.
Several years ago I was an attentive
listener to two old Erie engineers, "Jack:
ey" Westervelt aid "kbe' Carpenter,
who were comparing notes about the
perilous adventures they had previously
had while running on the road. Both
OF these engineers were widely known,
and both are now dead, the former dying
OF consumption, and the latter by being
struck on the head by plank projecting
from car of lumber in passenger train
between Goshen and Chester. At the
time these well-known engineers were
running the opposite sides Of the ''regu-
lar coal" between Port Jeryis and this
city, their trains being the first to bring
coal to Underwater here at the then new
works of the Pennsylvania Coal Com
pany. Both were good conversational
lists, and the stories related were remark
able and interesting. Both were seated
in the cab at Westervelt's tsmogul.'' the
six wheeled locomotive. 24S, one of the
fist hare, coal "moguls' placed upon the
road, and which was then undergoing re-
pairs at the Port Jervis shop. Carpen:
ter's engine was 249, a companion engine
of the same class. The most thrilling
part Of the storytelling was when Il
turned npen the numerous objects such
as horses and wagons, COWS, fowls, sheep,
hogs and peoplc-they had, during their
experience ID engineers encountered upon
the track, while running over the road.
THAT was,' said Carpenter, "probably
the dlosest shave that ! evet had from
gong down the bank when I strGck that
drove OF cows Just. this side Of, the second
bridge west of Salisbury, on the Newpurg
branch. There was dozen or fifteen Of
them, and all were on the track. had q
train of twenty loaded coal dumps be-
hind me, and was blazing away the best
40 knew how, to get over Pine Hill with.
out stalling. had good start over the
straight line just west, and when we
poked our nose around the curve between
that and the bridge I was going with the
heavy train oil Of twenty-five miles an
nour. As we turned to the left, the fire.
man seen the cattle first, and, in sudden
burst of the worst fright I ever see, he
shriekcd, My God, Abe! see what's on
the track Shut of, quick!' I took the
situation in at glance, and see that
was too far on top Of 'em to stop so 1
pulled her out, and hit 'em as hard as
could. OF course twas the best thing
could do to knock 'en of, and not
Let 'em get under US; SO we went through
'em like pistol ball would 90 through
paper. Horns flew one way, hoofs an.
other, tails were like meteors flying
through the air, and when we pulled up
to see who would get the finest set of
horns with which to adornl the engine and
memorize the occasion, as we'll as the
incest chuck-steak, there were fourteen
down the bank-seven on each side.
Some had their heads partly of, some
their legs broken, and the rest were bad
~ mangled, so that all but two had to be
killed. My engine was little besmeared,
but no damage done. It was a fortunate
crack I gave, for IT any one of 'em had
gone under, down the bank we'd q went
sure, and laundering big wreck made"
"That reminds me-, said Westervelt,
"ot the time I ploughed through that big
flock OF sheep, 'tother side of the Otter
hill crossing. i was going down the
grade east Of Goshen with full loaded
train, and good clip, making, should
think, thirty miles an hour. There was
at least forty or fifty Of the Aeecy animals,
and I didn't think they were dangerous
to hit, and couldn't stop if l did, I just
let her whiz, and looked out to see which
way they went. Twas the most novel
sight I ever see. Ono of 'em noticed
went clean through rall fence, and
took the fence with it: Another one
see strike big rock, ana / tell you he
hattened out like some Of the copper
pennies the boys put on the track for us
to run over. But the most Of them took
wings and upward they went, some twen-
ty and more forty feet high. You'd
think it was raining sheep to see them
come down. They were strewed all
around the road and fields adjoining the