Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-26

early morning, ants for road pur- Il
reached Summer, in hu 1l
become regular silnoon.~ard Mind
swept across the sandy wastes with
such violence that the train swayed
and rocked under the violence of the
blasts, and seemed ready to plunge
from the track. The moon had he
come overcast In the early part of the
night, and the journey was continued
in darkness that rapidly increased
until the day began in Stygian gloom.
The passengers who had been aroused
from their sleep by the fierce assaults
of the wind and the dashing of the
sand against the windows the train,
lookea anXiously for the appearance of
the sun, but no CLEAN of light relieved
the forbidden darkness OF the east
Night maintained her sway, and
the blackness of the heavens grew
intense with the morning, until the
strong headlight of the locomotive
almost failed to pierce it. The small
portion of the desert which was ex-
| posed to the engines light only served
TO discourage the travellers. The track
was lost under the pillows of sand that
were being tossed across the rails by
the angry storm. The desert moved
like a sea, and when the waves oil sand
struck the shivering sides of the train
they scattered like spray and filed
the air with dust which made free
breathing impossible.
| The travellers fears of being stopped
| by sanddrift were soon realized
After leaving Sumner, which is 3l4
miles from San Francisco, the train
moved cautiously for ten miles through
| l.. III 40,
with crash. The alarmed passengers
hardly dared to face the driving storm
to learn the cause of the unpleasant
ventured into the binding simeon
found that their express train had run
into freight train, which had stopped
in an impossible sand-drift. The
slow rate at which the express was
moving enabled the engineer to
stop the train in time to pre-
vent n serious accident, and the col
lision was only sufficient to cast the
LOGON olive from the track. The pas
senger cars remained or the rails. II
was then 10 o'clock, so slowly had the
express proceeded through the blind
ing storm after leaving Sumner
The darkness of the night had only in
creased, and nothing was visible eX
cept whiting the focus of the train.
lights. For five weary hours the pas
sengers were compelled to remain OF
the detached train while relief wa!
being obtained from Sumner. Assist
ance having arrived the
track was cleared OF sand sufli
GENTLY to enable relief engine to pul
the express back TO Sumner, where TIN
passengers found slim accommodation
until the storm blew over Toward
/, O'Clock in the afternoon the darkness
began to disappear, but the simooi
maintained its vigor until nighttall
Yesterday morning the unfortunat
passengers proceeded on their journey
the remainder OF which was mad
without sensational incident, rs gang
! Of Chinese had been at work all nigh
!. and had cleared the track OF the acct
! mulatcd sand-drift. At Tulare, the es
: press, which was due at 2:i0 pm. yes
! terday, overlook the belated am
!, weatherbeaten express, having passe
with slight discomfort through tn
tail Of the simeon. The breaking {
n piston rod delayed the first expires
! still further at I4athrop. and the tw
Z trains came Simultaneously to Oat
y land wharf, the first over thirty hour
6 behind time and the second over six
4 All hands, however, arrived safe, an
in the comforts of their hotels soon TO
: got the unpleasantness of their &C
o ventures aud laughed over it.--Sd
= francisco Examiner.