The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-02-03
eADoER BUT WISER DOGS.
Exuberant CANNES Taught Not to Tackle
Flying Railroad Trains.

AsSsAhfo0u 1IdtHbs
add l ever run over doga" said loco
motive engineer on the West Shore road.
"Yes, often. Sometimes at night they
looked as big as man on the track | had
a little episode with dog only few DAYS
ago. While running near Harrington saw
three or four hunters. Each had dog.
One of tho CANNES was handsome pointer
of Il red,lish-brown color. 1t thought it
would be smart and try to race with the en-
CINE, 1t jumped on the track and ran
ahead. barking over its shoulder The train
was going forty-five miles an hour. 1t was
only few seconds before that dog found
the engiue too close to him to bark, and he
hadn't time to leave the track The cow
catcher struck him, and the next we saw
was dog going up in the air good many
feet, We thought he would never come
doNn, but by and by he dropped, and luckily
IN pond of water, He swan to the shore.
and as he climbed out he 'ki-yed' so that we
heard him even above the roar of the train.
Dogs, too, are queer animals around loco
motives" continued the engineer. "Once
there was a dog at Milton that always
watched for the train, and when it came had
race with it That dog ran alongside the
ensif", II was too smart to get on the track
One day he started as usual but it was a
little further from the station, and he was
running with all his might, looking up at
the cars, trying TO bark, when the train
went over culvert, and house went the
dogs head first down in the mud and water
several feet. That dog must have imagined
the train did 1t, because he never after that
would run Il race with it. Once while run.
ming at a very fast clip Noticed two little
boys near house with big bulldog. The
dog was an old bruiser, ready to fight any,
thing Just as the locomotive came near
the boys clapped their hands and shouted to
tn" dng to 60 for him The dog did 90 for
the locomotive. The pilot caught him,
threw him clean over the smokestack, and
whe he came down he came down he struck
with his back on the valve stem, rolled OF in
the ditch, and ran home without being
hurt"
isn't it little extraordinary" incurred
the reporter, that the dog was not killed."
"oh, no. said the engineer. a have seen
chickens on the track run over by the loco
motive and they would come out under the
driving wheel without being killed The
wind must have caught them somehow and
thrown them like a puff ball around without
hurting them. When you strike big oh
ject, then 1t is different. One night a bic
bull got on the track When it saw the
light OF the locomotive he paved and curled
his tail and beloved, head down, ready for
battle We had no time to shut down, and
thu only way to do is TO strike such objects
full force i'll order to knock them away from
the track. II they fall on the track they are
liable TO get under the wheels and throw the
engine off the rails, So gave her "a few
pegs and the machine fairly raised from the
track. When it struck the bull it was
square on the head. The big animal was
thrown twenty or thirty feet, and then went
DOWN IL steep embankment and went ont of
sight Once in while dog will he thrown
wish great force. l saw dog struck one
day ami he seemed to be all rolled up. He
won't like cannon bali away from the To-
connective, striking board fence 1t broke
tive troard in two with a crack, and that was
~" Hast We saw OF the dog. New York
lluIt's.