The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-11
RAILWAY ROMANCE
an Actual Occurrence on the West
BsHRd Train Yesterday.
CHAPTER l.

An amusing incident occurred on
No. 3 train yesterday while at Sidney.
The train was held for an hour and a
half at that station in order to repair
the journal of the sleeper. The pas
sengers took advantage of this fact and
strolled around Sidney to see if they
knew anybody, and to ''irrigats.' etc.
When the train finally started there
was a grand rush for the cars, and it
was supposed that everybody got On
board. Not SO, however. As the train
got up to full speed, a passenger was
observed running along the ties, wildly
waving his lat at the fast receding
train. but it MOI any of the passengers
saw the signal to stop. The man finally
turned about and went to the Office of
the agent and ordered a special engine
to take him TO the train.
CHAPTER III.
Now, it SO happened that there was
a newly married couple on board the
train when it arrived at Sidney. They
had just been married the day before in
Omaha, and were ''touring" it to Cali
fornia. They occupied a stateroom
and were secure from jnquisitive pas
sengers, who seemed too eager to watch
the young folks in the first stages of a
sweet, sweeter honeymoon. When the
train started from Sidney, the groom
was not in the stateroom with his
bride, but she innocently supposed that
he was standing IN the platform. A
few moments elapsed and still he did
not come. Twas then she sent the
porter to seek her loved one. He
wasn't on the front platform. When
the porter went to the real of the car,
he saw a man chasing the train for
deer life. The bride was duly informed
Of the fact, and she got out on the plat
form just as the tie passenger stopped
running and retraced his steps to Sid
ney.
At first the bride was in a terrible
furry. Then she was disposed to cry.
But the presence of the passengers pre-
vented that. Finally she joined in with
the general merrimenf at the expense
Of her luckless spouse, and laughed at
the early separation of a newly welded
couple. 1t wa suggested that she
could stop at some station until her
husband Joined her. "Yes,n said she,
while her eyes frightened at the thought,
81 car lay owe in Cheyenne until he
comes on." And she resigned herself
to her fate.
CHAPTER III.
The engine which was chartered by
the passenger who was left behind
proved to be unequal to the strain. She
could scarcely pull herself up grade, let
alone overtake the fast express train.
When the first station was reached, the
poor dinky was wheeling and putting
and screeching like an old man in the
last stages of asthma, who had been
running a race for his life. The en-
gineer vas forced to ask the station
agent to telegraph ahead and hold No.
8 at the next station until the dinky and
the lost passenger caught up. This
was done.
CHAPTER W.
At the second station west of Sidney,
the train was held. The query ran
among the passengers, WHATS the
causep" Even the bereft bride-a sort
of railway widow-wondered the cause.
Finally someone said that an engine
was nearing the train from behind, a >
a man was waving his handkerchief out
of the cab.
Joy lightened the heart of the bride,
and expectation illumined her pale coun-
tenance as she thought that her own
dear Romeo was coming to her arms.
Joy increased to rapture, and expecta-
tion grew to realization as the luckless
passenger, who came on the dinkey,
stepped IN the train. 1t was the
groom, the husband of the pale bride,
who had felt that her W had been
cruelty torn from her side through the
freak Of trainmen.
The couple wasted no time in going
to their stateroom, and the train start
ed Immediately. What t~ranspired
there our informant did not know, as
there was too much noise made by the
train, to hear, and the glass was etched
too we'll to see.
But the couple were happy, for they
plainly showed it when they reached
Cheyenne. And they went to dinner at
the Union Pacific, though they ate
nothing. They seemed to thrive on
love. Still they paid two dollars just as
readily and cheerfully as ii they had
cleared the table OF food instead Of
dining on a cup of tea and a toothpick
as they did.