Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
A THRILLING EPISODE.
A Locomotive Engineers Instinct-How
He Saved a Train and How He saved
Himself.

On one of the darkest and stormiest
nights of the recent unusual winter, the
express on one of the leading New York
railroads was moving westward from
Albany. The engines headlight threw
a strong reflection in advance, but the
storm was so binding it was almost inn
possible to distinguish anything even at
a short distance. Under such circum-
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 aud 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: 81 feel that something's
wrong" Selling 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 his engine when his eye caught
sight of a 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
| hn "a
touched them. What inspired this at
tempt at train-wrecking is unknown, but
it was presumed the confederates of some
prisoners who were on the train hoped
in the confusion of an accident, to de
liver their friends.
Engineer John Donohoe, of Albany
. to whose wonderful instinct was due thu
, salvation of the train, when asked b.
the writer why he stopped his engine
said:
Il can't tell why. only know l fel
I, something was wrong" t..,
"Do Won have these feelings often whcl
upon the road?" continued the writer.
No, very seldom, although for the pas
: twenty years have been in condition
to feel apprehension at almost anything.
, "Howis that?"
: "Why. I have been the victim of on
of the worst cases of dyspepsia eve
! known. have not been confined to m
, bed. as like thousand of others, L al
!. compelled to work whether able or no
. Indeed, when it first began had only
. loss of appetite, faint feeling that Woui
not 90 away and bad taste in tn
> mouth, but L finally got those terribl
q craving and gnawing feelings that max
o life so unbearable and are known
Q general debility" '.H ID f.
f "What did you dor o., -.
o .T tried physicians until i became di
= Outraged. gave eight different one
: fair tests, but none of them benefited IN
. l then tried proprietary medicines, bl
. thew failed, likewise. 1t looked prett
!. dark for me so far as any more peace {
4 endowment in this world was concerne
y and / became terribly discouraged" ..
n "You certainly do not look that wa
, now" II
y "Oh, no, indeed, I am in perfect healt
!, now" was the reply, "and i propose
!. continue So My nervousness is entire
+ gone; can sleep nights; the achiI
a numbness has disappeared; the pal
$ sickly appearance has given place to Il
II color of health, and l have readily p
II on flesh. This is what has been accor
o plished by means of Warmers Tippec
# noe. If l can he cured after a chron
IS illness of nearly quarter of a century
believe all suffering in a similar mann
10 can be restored by using the same gre
Of remedy"
Such is the testimony of man vi
m could detect and remove unseen dang
on the road. but could not remove Il
,e dangers from within his own systel
until brought face to face with the gre
70 preparation above-narned which did
m much for him and can do as much for
these who require it.