The Mineral argus., 1884-11-06
EATING A GIRL
Narrow Escape Prom cAnnibalism on
snowed-in Train.

Harrow Escape FROM Cann1DAAAsm ON
snowsd-tn Train.
From Peck's Sun
Few people who have never been on
the verge of starvation can realize what
the pangs of hunger will bring a man
to. There are people who are board
at cheap boarding houses who have
some FAINT realization of hunger, as IS
shown when they take meal at ho-
tel. Then they reach for everything
that is in their sight, and their eyes roll
in frenzy, and you can watch them and
imagine what they would do if hard
pressed and no food for ten days.
Right here at home there have been
narrow escapes from cannibalism when
trains have been showed in for week.
Only a couple of years ago train
was showed in west of st. Paul,
and for four days there was no food
except the cotton waste that is used to
oil the engines and barrel of shell
oysters After all the food was
gone, and the travelling men had
eaten the leathern fire-buckets and
chewed the sustenance out of the plush
chushions, they held consultation in
the baggage car, and decided to kill and
eat girl in the rear coach. She was
about twenty years old, a school teach
er by profession. sy-cheeked, and just
about the right age to eat. The boys
appointed young fellow who was trav-
cling for Milwaukee tobacco house to
90 TO the girl and tell her that they had
decided to eat her, and to get her con-
sent. 1t is delicate thing for young
man to do to go and tell a girl he had
been flirting with three days iii snow
storm that the boys had decided to eat
her, but the law among travelling men
is severe, and the young man had to
obey. He went in the coach with sink
ing heart and a smile, sat down beside
her and told her he had proposal to
make, and with smile that was worth
two in the bush, she told him she had
rnistrusted something of the kind
ever since he squeezed her hand
She evening before, when they
we're PLAYING casino. He said the
{ the harder from the fact that he had
learned in the past few days to love her
{ As he had never loved another woman
/ but in times like these we must stlfie our
: duty, and tear came to his eye as he
}. looked at the rich red cheek and the
: true blue eye. He said the proposal he
}, was about to make was one that might
d strike her as peculiar. She said that
Q was all right. There was no use beat
e ing about the bush, and if he wanted hel
.e to marry him she did not see any obiec
d ton, and when they got back to st. Pau
oi she would throw up her position, ano
20 they would be married at once. The
Ie young man was slightly taken back, but
f. he said that was all right, and he would
n be the happiest man on earth, and he
r threw his arms around her neck and be
l. gan kissing her. The travelling men IL
ID the baggage car were looking through
,e the door at the young fellow and tn
is girl, and wondering if he was going tC
n, be all winter about it, and when they
y, saw him kissing her, they thought his
s, hunger had overcome him and he wa
rs taking a meal out of the best place
Is and it made them mad and the
Sc went in the rear car to remonstrat
lg with him. When they got to the rear o
ed the car he had quit kissing her, and sh
lis had opened big basket filled wit
IS cold chicken and everything good an'
spreaa a lunch, and as they came alon
she said: Gentlemen, assist us a
our wedding breakfast. Your frien
and myself are to be married when W
j. get to st. Paul" The boys took hol
le and helped eat the lunch, and congratu
l lated the young fellow, though they re
to primanded him for turning traitor at
: serious moment, but he pulled ont a bo
VI of cigars and they smoked for litt
n time, when relief engine was heard
IT. whistle, and IN an hour the stalled trai
il hauled out of the snowdrift and on th
q way to st. Paul and that evening I'll
a cannibal and his victim were Marie
MS and the assistant connibals were wi
5er nessses. The young people are keel
it ing house now, and no doubt the storl
,r- of Greely and his men will cause the
in to remember the great snow-storl
is when they came so near eating eaC
Int other.