Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-31
ONLY A PARAGRAPH.
8ut the Reader Will Find What q
few Lines Sometimes
Mean.

'tOnly worth paragraph"
The words are often heard in news
paper Office when some story comes in.
They are true enough. They were
true yesterday, when the news came
that is told in these few lines:-
At three O'Clock Yesterday morning a
freight train on the New York City and
Northern Railroad ran over a horse
near Amawalk. The engine rolled
down an embankment and the engi-
neer was fatally injured, dying some
hours later. The fireman was serious
ly, but not dangerously, scalded.
The news is all there. That Is all
the newspaper reader generally gets OF
that sort of thing. He is satisfied. He
ought to be. He gets all the news.
Butl
See what paragraph means, and
then read the newspaper from day TO
day, with an appreciation of the histo-
ry of humanity contained in what you
read.
At three O'Clock yesterday morning q
freight train was coming toward New
York City with load OF ore from the
Tilly Foster and Mahopac Falls mines.
There were in the train an engine aud
four cars. The engineer, Andrew Mil !
ler, and the fireman, John Mclaughlin,
were on the engine. In the rear part
of the train we're conductor and
three train hands. Their names are
not essential to the story, for they we're
not hurt. e
1t was foggy. If it had not been the
engineer would have been driving
through as fast as possible. He had
fifty miles to 60 on his run. He had
started at about two o'clock. He could
get to bed early In the morning it he
should 60 through on time, He had a
eight-st home awaiting his return.
He was only thirty.three years old. he
had had his place five years. He knew
. he was doing we'll. He had just Joined
the Brotherhood of Engineers and taken
their insurance-eS, ,000-only last Sat
urdsy. Home and the thoughts OF
F those that were there filed his mind
, He would be there early only for thu
fog.
Fog means two dangers. First, yor
may strike something too slowly
Second, you may. strike 1t too swiftly
The cautious man goes slowly. Mille
. went slowly. -..
There were two horses on the track
: Farmer Purdy, driving his stock to tn
: westward. had left his bars down Of
!, the east side, and two horses had 20
! on the read. It was q mile north o
> Amawalk. Creeping through the fos
= at twelve miles an hour it was yet i'm
!. possible to avoid those horses. H
= could not see them till he was right up
on them. He reversed the lever, bu
it was too late.
One horse escaped. The other wa
struck. II fell below the pilot. 1t wa
!. run over. Its carcass was dragge
along 100 feet The engine staggere
along like drunken man for $50 tee
and then fell over. 1t was only fou
feet down from the track to the mars
= ON the side, but that was enough.
ts Miller shouted. John McLaughlir
,e the fireman, does not know whether
q shouted '.jumpi" or "don't jnmpl"
y The engine fell. 1t was smashed
= Under it in the mud lay Miller. Bot
. legs were smashed. The steam pil
y to the cab broke and the steam poure
,e on him, scalding him quickly to deatl
~ Mclaughlin does not know VIII
. happened to him. When he becan
n !. sensible he was 1000 feet ava,
ls shrieking like q maniac. He was care
= 3 for and taken home Miller lay und'
=. =. the wreck nearly half an hour. H
" mates, the conductor and train hand
- came and built up rampant betwee
10 him and the escaping steam OF the
y clothes and of meadow grass. The
they dug him out. 1t took over ha
" an hour. Then he was taken to
~ house near by. ..........-.-..
y. He wanted to see his wife, but
q died before she came, and to- night al
se for many day there will be mOurnir
te in his home. -.