The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-17
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there are no more days Of pain for thee.
Undying vigcr and everlasting usefulness
are part ofthe inheritance OF the redeem.
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from inc Denrer (C0i) Tribune.
Yesterday reporter for the Tribune
met Mr.. w. b. Meyenesch, a well.known
typo, who was among the passengers on
the Denver and South Park train blown
OH the track near Como last week. On
asking for the particulars Of the affair.
he responded as follows at was what
you might call lucky accident; lucky
tor the reason that it happened Just when
it did and as it did, because no one was
hurt 10 amount to anything. The wind
was: was hrst noticed as being high when the
increasing in fury, and when the Train
reached Gerands, in the South PARK
| there was regular hurricane blowing
| got on the train at Gerands. From
there to Como is only short run through
the park, but il was three hours before
we got through. The wind was blowing
In squalls. At times it would slack up'
and the train would jump ahead as Il
something had pushed it. Again the
wind ToulG strike Us, and tie train
would sfeaibie and a!n.oss stop. It was
Just as II some giant hand had taken
hold of it and was pulling back. The
wind made dull, hollow sound as il
beat against the cars, but above that Won
could hear the shrill whistling through
the telegraph wires. 1t was yery odd
sensation. Every one could feel the re.
sistance to the train. The engineer said
he ielt all the time as though he was
pulling dozen trains at once. For fif.
teen minutes before the accident Con.
ductor ration was very nervous. We
asked him IT there was any danger of
the train blowing over. lie said he
thought not, but he was afraid it would
force wheel off or break it. Ho stood
in the smoker with his hand on the hell.
rope, ready if anything happened. The
brakeman was sent back into the coach
with instructions TO do the same The
passengers in the smoker were all Young
fellows. We were chatting about what
we would do ii the train blew over. Mr.
Egbert was in the rear coach. He asked
the chief engineer what he should do if
the train blew over. The engineer said
he should stand by the closet. so that
nothing would fall on him, and he took
that position. Mr. Egbert warned him
that the stove would catch him, and he
had just moved from the place when the
train went over.
"Ihe smoker went first. 1t tipped in
the easiest way imaginable. The con.
ductor yelled. Here we go! Every
one caught hold of the seats, and the car
just naturally lay down on its side. The
strain twisted the draw-bar off between
the smoker and baggage car. The engi-
neer reversed his engine and stopped
within two car lengths. BY that time
the mail car and coach were both over.
AS soon as we lit looked around and
saw every one hanging to the seats.
looked Tor the lire, and saw that the rear
stove mad emptied into the closet oppo.
site. Then l climbed out the window.
| went to the door, and by the time cot
there the conductor had got it open.
The fire was put cut ae cnce. We then
"ent 70 the coach to see if anv one was
injured, and found that the only damage
was that little boy had got his lip cut
on broken pane of glass. The coach
had struck on tie and broken in two.
We then started forward. The fiat man
who tried to cross the baggage car was
knocked down by the wind. We got
across as best we could. When we
reached the baggage car we thought some
ore bad been killed, as there was blood
running from tie under one of the win.
dows. We soon learned that it came
from the Daggage.master's nose. He
had been sitting with his feet cooked up
on the stove on the upper side of the
car, and whom it went over, his nose lii
oh tuo WiuuoW Bill on the other side.
"As soon as we found that no one was
hurt we got the twc ladies' and the chill
dren, who were in the coach, over to the
engine, and it ran down to Como with
them. 1t took three men to get one ladv
from the coach to the engine. When
they were gone We got back into the cars
and enjoyed ourselves. The peanut bows
hox furnished the refreshments for the
happy occasion, and when the engine
got back there was nothing left in it but
his basket and life of Jesse James.
They were afraid to bring down coach
or box car for US. 80 they brought down
two engines and fiat car. We rode up
to Como and lay there for twenty.six
hours before going on. 1t was lucky
that Mr. Egbert was on board, as he saw
the danger of the situation and stopped
everything on the road at once. If the
accident had happened two hundred feet
back of where it did, the train would
have gone down thirty foot embank-
ment. We had got over it and CAME to
nice and level place just in the nick of
time"