Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-17

Idruggists, was married at the Cathedr
this forenoon to Miss Ella Rosenbaum.
| Special to THE MINER-.
Roberta Case.
HELENA, M. T., November Is, 1885,
The jury in the Roberts embeEzlement cas
returned q verdict Of guilty at 4,o'cloc
this afternoon.
A NIGHT WITH A MAD1lAN.
Trainor's Fearful Ride in the Cab of
Locomotive.
Locomotive engineers, as a general rule
would rather do anything else than "tal
shop" and you might have sat around tn
Rossmore Hotel for hours while the SO
delegates to the Brotherhood Convention
were there three weeks, and never heard
word about running an engine. However
they do sometimes unlimber their reluctan
tongues, and when they do their talk
usually full of pith and moment. A small
party Of friends who took few delegates
to private club room after Ned Harri.
this out when they got George Trainor, a
small, wiry, gray haired delegate from ILL.
nois, talking about his experiences.
ut has been some years since have had
real, genuine hair-raising scare On the
footboard," said Mr.. Trainor. "Of course
have been startled dozens Of times and
frightened once or twice, when saw was
going into creek, or p!unging into gravel
train. But I haven't felt my heart sink
right down into my boots and my cap rise
right up off my head for ten years. The
last time was enough to last me for the
rest of my life, too. Twas running on the
Lake Shore road then, from Cleveland to
Chicago. had taken job firing with a
big, brawny, six-footed man on the throt-
tie named Tom Applegate. The third trip
l made with Tom, we were to take the fast
mail from Cleveland to Chicago. We bad
No. GIT, the biggest and newest machine
on the road and terror for speed. We
on tho darkest and gloomiest night 1 ever
saw, with four big mail and baggage cars
and, five coaches and sleepers. 1t was late
in the fall and the weather had been rainy
for some time. That night it poured down
in steady flood, and the darkness WAS so
intense that you couldn't distin-
guish an object foot from your
nose. l noticed that Tom was un-
silent and seemed anxious and
nervous, which was natural enough, for the
rain had softened the ground and over
flooded the streams and it was pretty dan
gerous going. We logged along steadily at
forty five or fifty miles an hour without
q word, Tom watching the
track closely all the time. All OF sudden
he jumped from his seat, opened the fur
mace door and gazed intently for two or
three minutes in at the fire; then he looked
up p.sa & me qS,as Ard sa said d f1itEeinls: i49E
looked at him in speecbless amazement.
The glare OF the furnace fell on his face
which was horribly distorted, and eyes
glared at me not at all like Tom Ap.
plegate.
$50 that's so, is it?" he roared again.
I thought he was drunk. So, to humor
him, said, trying to laugh:
"Oh, yes, that's SO, Tom, that's So"
"Well then," said he, "make up that fire
there and be quick about it."
| knew that the fire didn't need any
making up but didn't dare say SO and
began throwing in the coal The steam
guage began to go up. In a moment or
two more Tom got up and hung the sledge
hammer on the safety valve. Then the
horrible thought came into my head that
Tom was crazy. No merely drunken engl-
neer would ever do that, no matter how
drunk he might be. Every few minutes
Tom would get up and gaze into the fur
mace again and say:
IN THE CAB WITH MANIAC.
"Why don't you throw some coal in
there? Don't you see she's freezing to
death? Throw some coal in there or iii
throw you in to feed the flames"
"All the time We were going faster and
faster, and Tom now pulled her wide open.
The engine shot forward with a wild plunge
and away we went, lurching from side to
side over the uneven tracks like drunken
long over bridges, down grades and
past stations with frightful velocity.
tell you what. that was the awfullest ride
I ever had. The road was double-tracked
so there was no danger OF meeting any
train, but if we kept on at that rate W.
would overtake one in very short order.
knew that there was freight not very fal
ahead OF us. What if we should dash into
it just as it was pulling onto side track
I couldn't see how mothers son on the
train could be saved in such frishtful ca
lamity. Even if we escaped the freight W,
could not possibly keep the track at sucl
a rate of speed. I tell you l ivet
years in these few moments. All th'
time we we're flying along faster ant
faster, whizzing past stations, cross
ings and roads without ever slackenin
speed or touching whistle, while the ma
chine rocked and tumbled about as thougl
it were going over every minute. Tom sal
still, gazing intently ahead and orderin,
more coal to be thrown on the fire ever.
five minutes. Once made movement t.
blow the whistle. but as I raised my arm
Tom struck it blow that broke it righ
here by the elbow, and l fell over ha
stunned on my seat.
The conductor must have understood
that something was wrong, for the bell ran
two or three times to stop, but Tom onl
laughed and tore it out Of the roof OF tn
cab and flung it away. Suddenly he yelle
with all his might, "There she is agair
can't you see her?' pointing steadil
ahead-"There she is again! You bet L
fix her this time, 'and without another wor
he dashed out the from t window OF the cal
The next thing knew the headlight tiashe
out and we were rushing along into ute
darkness. felt something must be don
Struggling up grasped the whistle valve
my uninjured hand and began to blow tt
alarm: Almost the next moment tn
| maniac had me in his grasp and raised n
| up in his arms to dash me out of the cal
AS went up in the air saw the tail light
OF the freight not more than mile ahea
of US. just at that instant the bagga'
car door opened and 1 heard somebod
shouting, and saw men standing in tt
light. As the glare fell on the face OF tt
maniac. he paused for a second, then drol
ped me like d rock, and with a wild vel
plunged off the cab into the darkness.
Jumped up, jerked that hammer off tt
valve, turned on the air-brake and r
versed her in way that broke half IL
seats out OF the passenger car floors, an
landed seats and passengers in heaps {
the forward end. TheE fell over in
faint. We stopped with our pilot not fi'
feet from the caboose OF q freight trai
they told me afterwards. Toms bod
was found half mile up the track torn q
to pieces Trackmen told me that the
never could understand how that ira
kept the track that night. I don't kno
that any more than l know just why n
hair has been gray ever since that fright
ride, but that's the fact, just the same.'
| In Doubtful State
Lawyer-Are you single?
| Female witness-NO.