Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-09-30


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smentg-ara danrea enrvs fan't any tf5ak
Il All Fnas hasfe road Winds 40 the
faes ~ fhe Fnoautain puiohas for 81 ahe
wurld a. II Il wsga an fmxnenne snake
twisting aud carving Itself y tbs nosi
aMpfsafGas r1annAz. WhE. here - So
kssts mhers ties ofnn train g eAfs
10 8 plane wEsh 10 fea1 or 80 gFade %
flae falie b. naaana 81 wire rupe, and
Aas Il ran down tbs olAer side q TIE I'LL
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neWsENpeEs 10 90 almost wild over Ena
marVei. And sea hos writers IA np
she5r pens and artistic sheiE pNneiia
describing and ptcauFlna TIE Won
anxa OF fha mountain railroads
/ ct Switzsgiand. 60 which TIER
sfaina tag and labor, aided ~ The Gable
and COS. wheel systems bnt heFs.s tnis
Stub ard -iwist liftie Oaiumet railroad
asmhinR up tnao tha cloaaas On whinh
this immense grade i 0veEcome every
daE b. ahs same kind Of q locomotive
thaa they heck on - express tralas
nsre In New York and send boamine
ever fhe lasel eoantry and nobody
seems 10 have heard anything a6o1t 3.
n worked on this perpendicular
string Of rails three weeks. Iney
called Il carrying the h5d' out theirs
when 500 hire out 20 work on the Calu-
met branch. for it's about as near ike
climbing q ladder FROM the sidewalk 90
the fopoe = hnildIna az anything yo1
ever say. might have worked longer
Il Il, because rather liked she excite
meat, bat one day when We started
from Oalnmes 50 whiak down 20 Heola
with locomotive. seven ears, an en-
gineeE, fireman and sayen bFakemen,
and arrived there with one Gar and the
brakeman who was on Il In iasl
ten minutaa-tha ear being the one
/ rode on and the brakeman myself
1 c0naluaea that / would engage Ia
something where there was less risk,
and waat ont With q party hunting
Sioux Indians. Yon see, the water
brake on the engine and the steam
brake on the cars got q ilttle out Of
keller whsn Ne we're about half way
down, and the hand brake didn's seem
% answer the twist very well, and from
that time on q streak OF Lightning
oouiansf have caught on behind rs
| One after Rnotheg the laoomotive and
SIX Of the ears shot oa Of the curves
and took short route 10 the bottom 81
the canyon. don't know how it ever
happened, bat my car stayed on the
rails and dropped down into Heols
like q meteoroiite.
= Well. no they don's make Q bush,
nesa of carrying passengers on that ia,
eob's ladder Of q road, bat guess they
viii let any one ride IL be thinks be car
held his breath long enone b 70 make kht
/ trip down the gulcb. Calumet ISM
much Of place. being prinaipally 4
hematite iron mine. The ore is very
rich, and the Besaemer furnaces al
Pueblo mnsa have it / don't know
@ho ever struggled up there and found
the mine, but there il IL. seven miles
away. and half q mile high. 1hey
eonldn't build gravity road 10 IL. be,
cause the route up she canyon was q
eveElaatinply crooked. There wasn'i
one railroad engineer ont Of hundred
hardly, that thought locomotive could
ever ascend and descend the m0antair
aud handle the cars safely. bas there
vas no other possible way to ces AZ
the mine, and they cnt the road alone
the face of the canyon and began &
experiment. The road Is q marrow
gage one. When they first began e.
operate the road, il ID wgsn's little
the liveliest piece Of railroad properly
Ia the universe then there is no evidences
Of She fact IN about $S00.000 worth ol
cid iron. incapacisated locomotive hoIi-
ers, oar whaals and tint eFs, smoke.
stacks. sir brakes. hand brakes. and
snndry other disintecratad specimens
Of rolling stock that lie heapad at the
bottom Of the canyon all along the sew.
en- miles OF this ei0ud sweeping line
The txaia men couldn't ges the hang Of
tobageAning on aiads down shis Quleh
al0ng a. hrst, and there wasn't 4 day
passed bat spectators down below would
catch sudden glimpse o. = train 40 tbs
lace Of the mountAin as 10 dashed like
thRudefbalt from the mouth ct come
rock cut, flying With the speed OF the
wind. kept raight on its course. unabse
10 fellow the windinRs OF the track, and
lsaped headioEg from TIE precipice, 10.
coDotiyes aad cars crashing together IA
mid air. Finding themselves into . mil
len as fragments, aud laundering down
u enc gfsaa heap Of ruins 81 sac bot
tom u TIE canyun. u least 5000 feet b.
lev. Theu they knew e HselA that I e
brakes had last skeif grin. and that
the train had refused TO wAia fer re
pairs. The fellows geneFails mAnaeed
% jump when they foand the sir brake
bad Raua back en- sheua. and there were
AaNA@ 0tNfAN47 AAAAAN4 Q14A AAt&@ las
1auatatn. ca their way 10 HeelA % Be-
nended. the first year this lively read
was opened for h1siaess, than they gen
eaaliy lne Of az : fair sizad battle held-
[ neveE beard Of aay q she bays stick
iRg By . FanAway team IN these dasa
ard tAklnR testr ehaacas In the Tying
leap u THE oanyan, and / guess e8sv q
lev weFs ever killed IN Iamptug. rais
Calamet Br&naA il - nnpopalar with
she ef6eers of the Ria Grands that anly
two Of them ever expsFienes3 q ride
nFnn Il ffezn the eloaas 30 tAe earth
khaf vas some years ago. and kAey
HeyeF tried u axain- Naw. when TIE
ether of1eers want % enjoy she trio,
they SIT doWn and Iisfen % ahe ssory a
tAe sae who tried II. and turn paie a. 4
60 ka4e satis6ed
~well after awhile they get tie way
Of novine trains saScszsfally On the
ro4a, IAsy foana that, srss. they muss
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