Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-06-05
A THRILLING EPISODE.
4 Locomotive Engineers Instinct-
How he Saved 4 Train and
Hew he saved Himself.


Hew ne saved Himself
On one Of the darkest aud stormiest
niA hts of the recentunusual winter, the
( express ON one of the leading New Nark
railroads was moving westward irCm
! Albany. The engines headlight threw a
strong reflection in advance but the
storm was So binding it was almost im-
possible To distinguish anything even at
/ a short distance. Under such circum-
stances instinct essarily takes the
place of sight All seemed 60 be going
well, when, in an instant, the engineer
reversed his engine, applied the air
1 brakes, and came ta "A full stop. Why
/ he did so he could not tell any more
I than any of us caH account for the dread
/ of coming disaster and death. and to the
wondering inquiry of his fireman he
simply said: Il feel that something 5
/ wrong Selling a lantern he swung
/ himself down from the cab and Went
! forward to investigate. Everything APP
peared to be right, and he was about to
return to hisengine when his eye caught
sight of a peculiar appearance at the
j Joint of the rail next TO him, Brushing
/ the accumulated snow away, he looked
/ a mOmert, and then uttered anexclama-
/ ton of horror. The rails on both sides
had been uuspiked and would have
turned over the instant the engine
\ touched them. What Inspired this at
tempt at traiu-wreCking is unknown,
! but it was presumed the cenfe@erates Of
some prisoners who were on the train
/ hoped, in the confusion Of an accident.
/ to deliver their friends
I Engineer John Donohoe, of Albany.
to whose wonderful Instinct was due
/ thu salvation of the train, when asked
by the writer why hestopped his engine,
said;
u can't tell why only know felt
| something was wrong
"Do you have these feelings often
when upon the road3' continued the
/ writer.
mo, very seldom, although for the
past twenty years I have been in a con-
dition to feel apprehension at almost
anything
How IS that
"Why. | have been % victim of one of
the worst cases of dyspepsia ever known.
II have not been confined to my bed, as,
like thousands of others, | am com
PEELED to work whether able or not. In
deed. when first began ! had only a
loss of appetite a faint feeling that
world hot go away and bad taste i'm
the mouth, ,ut / finally got those ter
Tible craving and knawlng feelings that
make life so unbearable and are known
as general debility"
'What did you do:'
81 tried physicians until | became
discouraged. / gave eight different
ones fair tests, but none of them bene-
fitted me. | then tried proprietary
medicines, but they failed, likewise. Ii
looked pretty dark for me SO tar as any
more peace or enjoyment in this world
We're concerned and | became terribly
discouraged. 50
"You certainly do not look that way
now"
ooh, no, indeed, l am in perfect
health now, was the reply, "and pro
pose to continue 20. My nervousness is
entirely gone; [ can sleep nights; the
aching uumbaess has disappeared; the
pale, sickly appearance has given place
to the color Of health, and l have readi-
| ~ put ON flesh. This is what has been
accomplished by means of Warmers
Tippecanoe. If / can be cured after a
chronic illness of nearly a quarter of a
century l believe all suffering in =
similar manner can be restored by using
the same great remedy"
Such is the testimony of q man who
could defeat and remove unseen danger
on the road but could not remove the
danger from within his own system
until brought face 10 face with the
great preparation above named which
did SO much for him and can do as
much for all those whor.Gure it.