Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-25
Sadder But Wiser Dogs.

"Did | ever run over dog?n said
locomotive engineer on the West Shore
road. Eyes, often. Sometimes at night
they look as big as n man on the track
had little episode with dog only
few days ago. While running near
Harrington / saw three or four hunters.
Each had dog. One of the CANNES
was handsome pointer of a reddish
brown color. 1t thought it would be
smart and try race with the engine
1t jumped on the track and ran ahead,
barking over its shoulder. The train
was going forty-five miles an hour. 1t
was only n few seconds before the dog
found the engine too close to him to
bark, and he hadn't time to leave the
track. The cow-catcher struck him,
and the next thing we saw was dog
going up in the air good many feet.
We thought he would never come down,
but by and by he dropped and luckily in
pond of water. He swan to the shore,
and as he climbed out he ki-yied' so
that we heard him even above the roar
of the train.
dogs, too, arc queer animals around
locomotives, 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 engine 1t was too
smart to get on the track. One day he
started as usual, but it was little fur
Their from the station, and he was run
ming with all his might, looking up at
the cars, trying to bark, when the train
went over culvert, and house went
the dog head first down in the mud and
water several feet. That dog must have
imagined the train did it, because he
never after that would run n race with
it. Once while running at very fast
clip | noticed two little boys near a
house with big bulldog. The dog was
an old bruiser, ready to fight anything.
just as the locomotive came near the
boys clapped their hands and shouted
to the dog to Go for him. The dog did
go for the locomotive. The pilot caught
him, threw him clean over the smoke
stack, and when he came down he struck
with his back on the valve stem, rolled
off into the ditch, and ran home without
being hurt"
isn't it little extraordinary, in
quired the reporter, THAT the dog was
not killed."
''Oh, nor said the engineer II
have seen chickens on the track run
over by the locomotive and they would
come out under the driving wheel with
out being killed. The wind must have
caught them somehow and thrown
them like a puff-ball around without
hurting them. When you strike big
object then it is different One night a
big 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 the only way to
do is to strike such objects full force in
order to knock them away from the
track. If 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 steep embankment and went
out of sight. Once in while dog will
be thrown with great force. / saw
dog struck one day and he seemed to be
all rolled up. He went like cannon
ball away from the locomotive, striking
board fence. 1t broke the board in
two with crack, and that was the last
we saw of the dog. ~ Y Times.
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