Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-06-05
4 THRILLINM EPISODE.
Locomotive Engineers Instinct
How he Saved a Train and
How he Saved Himself

/ On one of the darkest and stormiest
nix hts of the recent unusual winter. the
| express on one of the leading New York
railroads was moving westward from
! Albany. The engines headlight threw q
! strong reficction in advance, but the
storm was SO binding it was almost i'm
possible to distinguish anything even at
q short distance. Under such circua-
stances instinct necessarily takes the
| place of sight. All seemed to be going
well, when, in an instant, the engineer
reversed his engine, applied the air
brakes, and came to full stop. Why
he did so he could not tell any more
than any of us can account for the dread
of coming disaster and death, and to the
wondering inquiry of his fireman he
simply said: II feel that something's
wrong" Seizing lantern he swung
himself down from the cab and went
forward to investigate. Everything ap-
peared to be right, and he was about to
return to hisengine when his eye caught
sight of peculiar appearance at the
joint Of the rail next to him. Brushing
the accumulated snow away, he looked
a moment, and then uttered an exclama-
ton of horror. The rails on both sides
had been unspiked and would have
turned over the instant the engine
touched them. What Inspired this at
tempt at train-wrecking is unknown,
but it was presumed the c0nfederates of
some prisoners who were on the train
hoped, in the confusion of an accident,
to deliver their friends.
Engineer John Donohoe, of Albany,
to whose wonderful instinct was due
by the writer why he stopped his engine,
said:
Il can't tell why. I only know felt
something was wrong"
''DO you have these feelings often
when upon the road?" continued the
writer.
''No, very seldom, although for the
past twenty years [ have been ia a con-
dition to feel apprehension at almost
anything"
'How is that?'
''Why, have been a victim of one of
the worst cases of dyspepsia ever known.
[ have not been confined to my bed, as,
like thousands of others, [ am com
PEELED to work whether able or not. In
deed, when I first began had only a
loss of appetite, faint feeling that
would lot go away and bad taste in
the mouth, but I finally got those ter
rible craving and knawing feelings that
make life so unbearable and are known
as general debility"
''What did you do?"
II tried physicians until [ became
discouraged. I gave eight different
ones fair tests, but none of them bene-
flied me. I then tried proprietary
medicines, but they failed, like wise. 1t
looked pretty dark for me SO far as any
more pace or enjoyment in this world
were concerned and l became terribly
discouraged"
"You certainly do not look that way
now"
ooh, no, indeed, am in perfect
health now" was the reply, "and pro-
pose to continue so. My nervousness is
entirely gone; can sleep nights; the
aching numbness has disappeared; the
pale, sickly appearance has given place
to the color of health, and have readi-
ly put on flesh. This is what has been
accomplished by means of Warmers
Tippecanoe. IF I can be cured after
chronic illness of nearly quarter OF a
century I believe all suffering in a.
similar manner can be restored by using
the same great remedy"
Such is the testimony of 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 to face with the
great preparation above named which
lid SO much for him and cau dc as
much for all those who require it.