The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

Tor ne showed some signs OF coming 70.
So says
Charley Scattergood. for the love of God,
don't you stir. Stay where you be till tie you
on.n
Now had my pliers with me in my belt in the
| sort OF pocket where we carry EN- and see the
broken wires, hanging round, and remembered
| that had some wire with me. roll I'd had to
| do some guylng with. So took that wire, for
| it was strongest and twisted it around him and
fastened him tight with my pliers and twisted
the other wires around him and tied him tight
and then Hooked to see what next.
wanted to guy that pole over, for it might
have saved US, and tried, but do my best
couldn't do it, him being in my way, and the pole
| so shaky. and see / couldn't, and then drawed
my breath and looked below
/ / don't think it had come over me till that
4 minute what fix it was. But when looked
| down | saw the people, for they'd come from
| everywheres and there was quite a crowd, and
| saw the linemen that had run up from the near
| est crew, and see they were all discussing of
my situation. And they tried to advise me this
and that. for could see EN- holler, but the wind
| once it come to me.
How in Gods name are you going to get him
DOWN.
| Anybody got rope9" cried I.
But nobody could hear me- and tried again.
Anybody happen to have any more wire about
| him2p
| And one of the trouble men he understood me,
and he sort of beckoned to me, and held up both
arms, and see he had a coil of wire and coil of
| rope betwixt his two hands, and l see there
wasn't any other way, and so / went down the
| pole. l went some fifty feet or so, for 1t was
| slow work, and / looked every minute to come
dashing down. Some of 'em climbed on some
| thing, cart or something and got on t'other's
shoulders for no man dared to add an ounce
| weight extry to that splitting pole with us two
| on it-and they flung me up the wire and the
ropes, and so / caught EN- and took EN-, and
| climbed up again.
LIE .Irskc %1aw
| way. I couldn't leave him there. you see.
Plucky? l don't know. It was my dooty.
tried to do it. That's all there was to IT. It isn't
much to tell of, come to tell it.
| So went up and ] united him, and l got the
rope about him, and piled the wire to it, till
had the length to risk it-but the wind blew pref
ty hard, and lord, how that pole did begin to
| shake
| Well, he come to little, not SOS to help him
self, but enough SOS not to bender me, and said:
Charley, you're took with something, and I've
| got to swing you down, for the poles rotten. If
| you vally your life-or mine ether-don't you
darst to do nothing but do as tell you" For
| knew IL he was to wrastle or even to wriggle it
| would be all up with both of u.s.
| So think he sensed it, for he seemed to- and
I made him fast and began to lower of him
| down ahead of me, me descending above him
| best l could, and he hung quite STILL and be-
haved extraordinarily we'll for fifty man. My
| idea was, found we was going, Id pay out
| the who . of the cable fast. and some Of 'em
would ca.ch him before the pole went down.
| Well, did it. don't knows as / know ex-
actly how. But Igot the Teller down. 1 got
him down as far as thirty foot SO above the
ground, when, all at once, felt it coming.
That there pole begun to swing this way and
| that way-the way tree will when it's going to
was coming-and cries out:
There he goes! / can't do nothing more for
him! Catch him, some of ye!s and payed his
rope out and let him go, and he come down
flo 81. had fall
| the foor-and then I heard the s-s-crash! go
through the grain~of that pine pole-and jumped
for my life, and me and it come down together
1t don't seem much to tell, now. does it,
| That's all there is of it. 1t makes me kind of
| ashamed to tell it-as if there was something to
| tell.
Why, yes-if you want to know what hap
pened to me-next thing knew, didn't know
head. folks said, and they picked me up and
| says
HES dead"
But Charley Scattergood, a policeman, took
him to tine hospital; and when he got well he
| give up being Boston line.man, and he went to
No. maam, I'm not wishing to be profane in a
lady's house. He went to New York city.
So next knew opened my eyes one day, and
see my sister that was the wilder lady coming
| in the door. And she says:
"Mercy. Charles, you've come to, hain't your
| And saw was to home, and felt quite smart
only for the bandage on my head and for being
| as weak as drowned puppy beneath the bed
| close And my sister says:
There's young lady in the setting room;
come to inquire after your health" she says
| Shes got green dress trimmed with feather
trimming" says my sister.
"Tell her I'm much obliged to her." said l.,
| "aRd that take it for an honor"
| SO my sister goes and tells her, and in she
comes again.
"The young lady's crying" says my sister.
| Dear, dear" says I.
| = ~
to see her minute. me setting in the room be-
side Of her, my sister says
| And says:
| For a minute or forever-she knows that
willing Amt the word, saysI
SO back my sister goes and in they come, her
and Annie close behind her. And my sister
says
This is the young lady"
| And says:
I'D ben shaved if I'd known you was COM
| ing. my dear"
| And my sister says:
"Ill 60 and see the barber about it this
| minute. I'll have him come over after dinner
| If the young lady will excuse me half second. !"
| took it very kind OF my sister, for Annie
| couldn't speak, she cried so--she couldn't speak
a word. And when we was alone together
looked up. for l felt pretty weak, and could
| have cried myself to see my dear girl how she
| looked, for she was pale and miserable to see
| Il hain't slept day nor night since heard of
it," sobs she. II like to died myself" says She
| And says:
why, Annie!"
| And she says:
| "Oh, DON'T"
| And says:
| Crying for me, Annie?-Crying so for mep
"Oh. DEAR" she says "Oh, dear, dear, dear!
| I'm ashamed of myself" she says.
II never called upon gentleman before" she
says "but If didn't know you would forgive me
| l should die" she says
| II hope you won't think the worse of me for
coming. amt forward GIRL" she says
| So held out my hand to her, for couldn't
answer her. / couldn't someways. / took it 30,
that she could cry like that for me- And she
| put hers into it as il it had been little bird
she gave me, and she stopped crying, and she
says:
II never thought you'd make me ask your
| And says:
t.Nhat in God,s do z-o.. s,aaa.a