The sun., 1888-11-04
LOOK OUT FOR THE ENGINE!
4 TRAIN OF GOOD RAILROAD STORIES
MADE UP FROM ALL AROUND.
TIE fhanteu Train In the Cleuts that wss
Fererunner OF Disaster-An Experience
that Icft an Engineer without Nerve.


Fererunner OF Disaster-An Experience
that Isoft an Engineer without Nerve.
Fron ne Brrstnenam <st
You ask II have ever had an adventure
on the railroad that would be Interesting to the
81 shs & had
SaSs that sIss for ssn 9ns years have been
Of the oldest engineers running into BirmipR-
hsm. His train had Just pulled into the Union
MSS the Rens hS
round house. The engineer was attired In the
rough garments common 70 the guild while on
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o s fTsn
these two points z grand n places. The noun.
In No No7smbsr. and a topdon The toesrsph hSSs op.
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g. sf iSs mad
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In s sSinS9n n e
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"gaes burst mss Into Into loud suraw; Why.
Cap'n. you nervous; that is too good and he
ssd Ssshing else; but y the uncomfortable &C :, be
feeling 9Gntsnusd did aos n t1SSw ,S Il ss ths h
time. jack, n the mean time. was pillpg pp
tps st.r low @
tsps1es wsal haze 3S better re and w' be In Chat
~SESs TSs grim n November twilight hung over the
stsn MY I miles, sse nsni sae
an engine n9sa Or she %
straight ahead, where the from bands far down
the track seem 70 unite into single rail- Then
look therer ,pointins with TREMBLING hand to
sM up f@ cof sG efFi 81 In
as :s psa 0w e. wssht face Witnessed as
to booa 70 I Which,
n
phantom engine drawing phantom train. An
hs Of sosG sHNss s sS% ss
lights in the coaches. Al as plain as II the train
was running on the aide track 5y stood
saddsa 50 Gn and Feeaed s
P%ysh By q sse bell gopS msds
What's the. matter with your asked tho
bs sGnRs 4n to to nS ineSS hs
wayf Why. man, you look as II you had seen
apss j sSfs s. 'ff ssssshns
sss $sas Up Up Ssli n hour: and We pulled II iato .
SshIna lime, From @ shs sIns @ oi tSe spPssrsnes
Of the spparition to the time We pulled into the
s Hsts %ss
his face l did not like, The affair was not dis
cussed between rs. Jack was STRANGELY taci; i;
Inclined to talk about the strange sight seen In
y 1St ss az psss s s RR.
Sss @ q .5s sssSsn Tip e. e eAssss:ssSsss :s & q y;
aS hs leRi % so
Hsassd is@S p tho sshs sias @ snd @ sssagsd
chossn tn shs wong Side and tie D S @
ihs ascidens 6sPpened a t6e very spo. where
shs seSsse Ss Sagsd SS.
mss snOtSsr san
line. I asked to be excused from duty pending
the Investigation made b. officials into the ac-
cldeEt and on the day the Investigation was
concluded and I was exonerated from blanc.
walked into the superintendent's office and
You needing feel badly about that acci-
dent remarked .a % The superintendent: peri M kindly
tered, and want to change my location,
as 1 mentioned my nerves. but he gave me
my time without word. I spent five years in
picture from my mind. Finally came back
East. but the photographic camera could not
engine In the mountains Of Tennessee fx itself
in my memory. l am only 40 now. but you can
white in single night as the novelists tell.
but In few months after the occurrence the
worry over 1t good deal; and that, too. when
was only 80 years OF age"
For some minutes the engine had been stand
ing still In the yard. put the reporter did not
notice whom 1t stopped. 30 thrilling was the
veteran engineers story.