Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-12-14
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THE STORY Og A sPECrGAL Dou
How Il Wreck OH the Pennsylvania Road Was
fortunately Averted.

New York Tribune.
Tribune reporter was sitting on one
of the seats on the Battery promenade
recently when well dressed woman
passed, leading by strap suow-w.ito
Spitz dag. A man drss5ed in the roGgh
garb of leborer sat on the seat next to
the reporter, smoking q short-stemmed
cob pipe.
Talking about strange things" said
the laborer, nudgiEg the news-g sth .rer.
II never see white deg but what it cals
up strange experience | had while firing
on the Penns ylvania railroad ten years
ago. | was Ill the Gao with Tommy BuEns,
one of the best engineers In the com
pAry's service, aud our run was between
Jersey City and PhnadtIp pbis. We left
Jersey City at . O'Clock one Saturday
evening, pulling long tram of passenger
coaches and three Puilmans. The cars
were ali Gull and We had the right of va
maxim - stops except at Market street,
Newars9Ad Tr2ntcn. We rolled along
ell right over the Eaokensack meadows
and after We left Newark we struck q xty
miles an hour pace, and watched the tele
graph poles flash by till they hooked
like the teeth OF hne-tooth cCmo. We
had struck the plain al Princeton junction
when Burne, who was looking out of the
cab-ginoow, says to me-
"Look- a here Jack! There ia white
dog runniu' alongside what's been follow
in Us FOR five minutes and blame1 If he
ain't keepin' up TO the ipjine. Look at
him"
81 was shoyeliDg coal in the furuac ct
the time and the heat was oliatering my
eyeballs in their sockets. 1t took me
some time after gazing out of the window
before | could make out the dog. Final
~ l saw him skimmerIlg along like a
swallow. Now in the glare from the win
dow be could be PLAINLY seen, then he
would get out in the line of the darkne ess
and we would lUse sight Of him. Bnt he
would be sure to show up again in a few
minutes. bitches cuts, aid short bends,
1t was all the same, that white dog stuck
beside the cab as steady as its shadow.
Burns and couldn't MAKE it out. First
We thought our eyesight WAS deceivlng
US, for che awful heat from the furnace,
the sharp wind or something else, or all
Of these things put together Is terribly
trying on ope's eyes who mas to use them
in an engine cab. The sight gets blurred
and cloudy, and sometimes yoa see doub' 9
and sometimes you don'0 see half. Well,
DHrbS anu GnUuS III au IA S1 VIC H0IE ~ IiS u
by our eyes, and there couldn't be any
dog. But mi after mile that white Cog
was alongside.
Jack says Burns, ali at once, this is
moIe'n l kin stand. If our eyes ain'b
mussed up there's something wrong
somewhere. I'm goIn' to stop her.
"Sure enough, he stopped, and We both
got off the cab. The conductor came
running up and wanted to know what in
the blue blazCs was the matter. We told
him about the white dog running along
side the engine, and we looked about to
show him the blamed animai. But, to our
surprise, there was TO dog 10 be seen, and,
hunt high and hunt low, we could hot
find him. The conductor laughed at US,
and Burns and got aboard again, think
Jog that after all our eyes might have
fooled US. Burns pulled back the throttle
and we started off slowly. There was a
curving cut just ahead of US. Fifty
| yards from il, before the wheels mad fair
Iy begun to revolse good, the headlight
| flashing on the track before rs showed
US rock that must have weighed two ons
on our track. We STOPPED the engine with
/ the COW catcher not twelve inches from
! the stone, which loosened b7 raiDs had
rolled dowr from the bank. Had we not
! stopped on account of that white dog we
would have struck it on fuH headway and
| you cal see what that would have meant.
| | got shaky soon after that and resigned,
! and the very mention of whits dog,
much less the sight of one, brings that
! strange ride back to me-"