The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-30

fearful. But by-and-by their voices were completely drowned by the noise of the cars. It reached higher note as they crossed the short bridge over Vaughn brook, and dropped to a deep bass as they flew through the cut beyond.
 Daisy could still see Tim's lips move in apparent comment, as he pointed out to her the objects that they passed; and he looked down into her face with a smile when she showed him how her bonnet had blown off and her long curls were flying in the wind.
 At the old steam mill they saw 8 man sitting on the porch, reading. He started to his feet as the little train went by, and ran down to the track, but they were out of sight before he reached it.
 Two freight cars stood on Robin- sons siding as they passed, and shut out, for an instant, the view of the long, dark buildings of the tannery.
 At Hoadley's loaded coal train was standing on the main track, but the switch was open, and the two cars darted into the siding, out again and under the bridge and away before people who heard them had time to come to their doors to look. The speed attained was terrific. Tim knew that when the first obstacle was struck the cars would be dashed in pieces.
 The sharp curve above Middle Greek Falls was rounded with lurch and a swing. The falls themselves were just dash of white below the track, seen for an instant and then lost to view. The next minute the smoke stack and engine house of No. II were in sight.
 No. 14 was an inclined plane on the light track from Hawley to Pittston. At the foot of the plane the loaded track crossed the light by bridge. Above this bridge, on the loaded track, stood two cars of coal.
 Tim looked ahead and saw them. He knew that the end of the ride had come. Another moment and it would all be over. He took Daisy in his arms, put his hand over her eyes, closed his own and waited for the shock.
 The afternoon passenger-train was just coming in on light track from Hawley. AS it stopped at the foot of No. IA plane the people in the cars be- came aware that something unusual was going on outside. Men were shouting and running toward the upper track.
 A gentleman and lady looked from the open window of the rear car to learn the cause of alarm. This was what they saw; two-loaded coal-cars coming down the other track at almost lightning speed, and, on the rear car, two children, boy and girl, and, just ahead of those moving cars, two other cars, on the same track, at rest.
 They had hardly time to look before the crash came; terrible shock, with flying timbers and culm leaping into the air, and then-wreckage. The men reached the spot minute afterward.
 "Come," said the lady, taking her hands down from her eyes. "Come, Walter; perhaps l can attend to them better than the men can."
 Her companion looked anxiously into her face.
 "Do you think you had better go?" he said, Git will be very painful sight"
 "Yes," she replied, "I can bear it |; I have been much with the dead. They were children; will do it for Daisy's sake."
 They climbed up the steep embank- ment and came to the point of disas- ter. The cars were prostrate and in ruins. In the midst of the wreck of the rear car a great pile of soft culm lay, and from this pile the men had drawn the bodies of the two children; living bodies, living and unhurt pro- tected by the culm, which enveloped them like cloud, with which they rose when the shock came, and into which they fell.
 "Daisy Daisy!"
 It was the woman who called. She was down on her knees and had the child in her arms for through all the disagreement wrought by coal dust and magnified by fright, she had rec ognized her baby.
 The men stood back and looked on in amazement, until Tim told them who the lady was, and who Daisy was and then one of them went up and kissed the child's face, all needless of the black dust that covered it, and she smiled back at him from the tender shelter of her fathers arms.
 Late that afternoon, as Tim's mother was returning from an unsuccessful search for the missing children, she was surprised to see them coming up the path accompanied by Daisy's par ents.