Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-13
A RED LIGHT ct Ttie CROSSING.


Philadelphia Times: \ heavily
bearded man about i3 years Old and one
perhaps ten Years his junior We're seated
in the Canal street Union Railway sta
tiun Chicago, evidently waiting for
train. \ couple of large satchels lay
near them, indicating that the mon
were going some distance. reporter
recognized them rs IA "scab engineer
and fireman who had been pulling
passenger train on the Chicago, BurIing-
ton aud Quincy road.
"Hos, | am going home 10 i'vnn,yl-
vania, replied the engineer. "aui sois
my frcIu"n. We have mad enough.
"AIraiU oi DYNAMITE are YOU:
mo, il ain t thnt.'
'"Threatcncl by the Brothcrhood:'
NO. Bat we have been br some
thing else and concluded to set out OF
the country. wouldn { work hore any
longer for double pay Tell Eou about
il? People wouid only laugh: bat we
know what we are talking about just thc
same. Doyou care ii tell. John; Wen.
il may interest somebody, for it is
strange.
when the strike on the 90 took
place we came here aud went 10 work.
We had been Idle for quite while, and
our families had learned what it was to
90 hungry. | do not believe in taking
another man 5 job, bat when ! looked at
my children pinchcd faces and patched
| clothes jumped at the chance to 90 80
work. For Il time we pulled freight
| and everything went smoothly. But
| one night something happened that
made mo q coward 1t VA. about 10
ninIo,.,, ond ,,o,v io,l, Rain wns fall
irr staadilv and | could not see far
nh9oa hnt I vos tr,inr 10 l,ennon t1,ne.
W. Ia ~ b,o,.,. tr;in aud - ~. We r,,mhini
| oIo,,,l + onoasinn,ll,, "lnnrad hnrl, tn san
| if fcv9rvthino was All riUht. had a sort
| Of ,,,,oSonti,,Sont thaf snT,nt Linr wns .ro-
j., inct = to bannnn and fnlt unrasy
irbi WI .tIod fo,.a rood r,ossino inst ni,nn,d
! tha ,I,,,,, n,,d ,ybo, ,,,o ,rni ".lo.. IN If .
1aSb f ii1,.,,in, hrom~bf thin,,s ont 80
nio.r ~. d7,,, man In 81 vornn d,;v-
;Ir 90 of bn,,n,, n,o., ,ro.,,, Tho t,,nl,
| an3 ,hn .,i,n,I. hod hn,o,nn ,,n,n,n.ma-
| III, + s,,.,,,o, f,o,,, mn, sn,t rnvnrsad
NV npoinn ma cave her sand. T-hon
| shI,,t nv, o,.cs IN ~, instant wa sf,ucl,
thon, ou ",S tS,,d hao,d The rrnrili," v.oo1 oS
! no n,,Tron u,nc h.ol,nn INFO f,.nSmnnts
..,rh1 t,.,in uns ston,,a5 ,n1 ,s soon
nc nonn,nn had oonn ahead I wont
bocl The man and both horses haI
i,"o,, ma n"d tha w,n,ro,' ,vos oniv
~ooa ~ooa fnr n,.iU kindi,n% i" h"jd th" j,nt",n
a., $50 ~ the fnne If 7ha l,nfo.tunate d,.ivn,
oppI pI " NO onnd,ctn,. racnoniynd him Ua
,,,', ,,,,ri,,ao ,T7hn bod orn,,o out
,,;tn ibo sirite and While Idle hud
haa, ,',itt;n" in tIa tin,a m his fathnr's
farn, po,.I pao, hT We iifted the bodv into
thn h, - aahonsa aud ns we stnrtnd ahead all
faIt ,'i,rLt,, hino
.t,rbn7nlyt Ti,rht an ,bo roturn tri,, nc
wa nanna TO tba c,o.sinU where tbc arri-
dert occnrra6 saw - rcd ioht. and
whiStIod fnr hrnlfns Grttinm nnarer
hotb The iramnn and 7 distinGuished n
,roCron Stan,Iinn on the trarl, aud in il
",as What nnnn5rod to he tha man we
had I,iilod Ike ni~ht before, Nv hair
stood @ On end ns he coolly swung the rod
Ggbt and signoiied MS to ston. had
leaned thai il was foolish to be super-
.titiouS hnt the wov he handled thnt
lantern showed me that he was an old
hand at the business. and we could not
sion too ouick to suit me. Before the
conductor. and brakeman had come for
ward, horses. waron. man. and lantern
had disappeared. and / started up. not
WISHING To eyplair and be laughed at.
"XVhen we reached the end of the
division | learned that the man we had
run over had up to the strike been in
charge of the engine that killed him.
| wanted to Law off few davs and kind
of brace up. but the company was short
of helm and | could not. The next night
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