Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-25
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Eow jim Lyle's Unerring Eye Aided Hin
in Saving the Paymaster's Car.

EOw jim Lyle's UnerrinE Eye Aided Him
in Saving the Paymaster's Car.
Among the recently invfsorated liars Of
the town is one just returned from session
With ozone in Colorado. 1t was his first trip
through the mountains, and he was much at
fected by the feats of engineering skill there
manifested, as witness the following:
II had heard Of the curve on the Pennsyl-
vania, where, according to the time card
scheduled, the engineer is obliged to lean out
of his cab and exchange tobacco with the
brakeman on the rear end, SO as to give the
passengers something to talk about, and
now believe it. There was an old, honest,
horny handed miner who rode over the road
out of Denver with me, and be told me sew
eral things Once, while we were being
jerked around the edge of the mountains and
could look out from under the roots of our
hair at the track opposite in the valley, he
told me tale. Said he:
"'That yere track down yam is the one
we're onto, but we won't tech it fer an hour
We run up the ravine an down the side of
the mountain an double back Down thar is
where Jim Lyle saved the paymaster O. the
road
"'HowF inquired.
"'It were this way: The paymaster's car
was hitched onto the hind end o the freight
train, his own engine havin' had a little trou-
BILE with her runnin' gear an being aban-
doned fer awhile up the road. Well, the
train was snortin' and crawlin' aroun' the
mountain, when all Of sudden the back
brakeman comes a-runnin' up and yellS to
jim:
"'Pull Quit Pull outl They's gang O.
rustlers has caught the engine an are humpin
after usl Pullr
well, Jim Lyle noticed that He seen at
wunst that the engine had been fixed up, an
that the rustlers had took her to ketch him an
git the dust in the paynasters car, so he
pulled out right peart an tried to OUTRAGE 'em,
but it want no go. They KEEP gitten' up on
him.
Pretty soon he struck the heginnin' O this
yere curve. He didn't slack breath, an the
conductor came rushin' up an bellered
. For Gods sake. what kin we dol II we
run this way we'll climb rail-
'Sallright,' said Jim Lyle IF l calclate
rightly that car is saved an he gave her
another pull out, an just as we reached right
here he jerked her wide open Then we see
what was what Lookin' back, l, bein' ON
the train, seen the last coach go upin the air;
there was jerk, an away over into the canon
she went
well, where does the salvation Of the
coach come inF l asked I don't see any par
ticular advantage in being spilled over
mountain side and being shot by train rob
berS'
Now don't git frisky,' said the old man.
I'm tellin' this yere an l amt done. That
there coach, as | say, sailed over ofln the
track just like the hind boy did when you
used 10 play crack the whip" at school 1t
6oated down as nice as you please an lit on
the track below in the valley an with the
force il WAS slung rolled ter miles 10 the next
station When we got there il was in on the
si6in' an we pulled by. an when the light
engine load o rustlers come pullin' along the
townspeople was waitin' fer EN- an the new
cemetery was started in good shSpe'n-
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