The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-04-02


to Mine Creek Bridge instantly. with
DIR. Studley aboard. They both knew
that there had been an accident, and
were puzzled 20 know wha; Ia 90. No.
WAS lyiD. On .Ic siding. with her
fires banked, and Pete Miller and Bar
Headly. the engineer aid fireman. had
gone NJ 10 Bradley on the accommOda-
ton. and could not get back until five
o'clock
at was then three. and two hours
might mean life and death. Corcoran
hurriedly ran around looking for man
to run the engine, but none could be
found. When he came back ne found
Ella standing in the door with her hat
and jacket on and her face pale as a
corpse. That is my fathers train
down there, and am going 10 him,
she said, Il have called the doctor, and
he is coming down the road ROW.
But there is no one TO run the
engine said COrcoran. Il can't find
anybody that knows how 20 start her
or to stop her.
81 will run her. said Ella. con-
fidently. and Dick Harpers lout OF II
boy, who was considerably stuck on
Ella. said he'd fire for her BY the
time the doctor reached the station
Harper had the engine steaming. and
as soon as the doctor jumped into the
cab Ella pulled out and started slowly
L IL.
when he saw the gal on the box, but
he said nothing, and as soon as the en-
CINE began TO steam she let her out,
and before they We're out OF sight OF
the village they were going ut a thirty
five mile clip, with the girl sitting
there purity as picture, with her hair
streaming, her cheeks red. and her lips
closed as tight as she could get them.
She had a clear run of eighteen miles.
with nothing TO do but blow for road
crossings and keep a sharp lookout for
cattle.
ut was little more than half an
hour when she Stacked up at the cut
east of Mine Creek and went creeping
around the bend. There she found Il
nagman and took him up without ask
ing a question. She knew by the look
on his face when he saw her that
something serious was the matter with
her father. Six hundred yards farther
she came in sight of IA bridge, and she
saw sight that she never forgot. Her
fathers engine was down the embaDk-
ment, upside down, and the combina-
ton car and coach were piled on
top of it. Three figures covered
with a sheet, at the right of the road,
told her that she might look for the
worst. She did not faint or scream,
but followed the doctor down from the
cab, with her hands clinched and her
lower lip between her teeth. Where
is my father, Sidney LawsonY she
asked of one of the trainmen, glancing
at the same time toward the covered
figure.
"No, not there said the man. He
is not dead, but he is purity badly hurt
over there on the track.
''She followed the doctor in the d.
rectiOn indicated and found little
group bending over three or four
wounded men. Sid was there, but he
was unconscious. and upon looking
him over the doctor said he had mar
row chance of pulling through. His
right arm and leg and three ribs were
broken. his head badly hurt and his
back scalded. The others were less
seriously hurt, and were tenderly
lifted into one of the coaches which
remained on the track. After DIR.
Studley carefully examined Lawson.
he shook his head and said that he
disliked to move him, but it would
have to be done since there was no
house at hand. We will take him
home said the girl; we can not let
him die here Then he was carefully
lifted into the coach and placed upon
bed made of cushions laid lengthwise
on the seats, which were stripped of
their backs.
There were two men at hand who
could back the engine up to Pine Oak,
and Ella insisted upon doing it herself
until the doctor told her that her place
was by her father. Then she urged
the men to run the engine slow, and
took her seat by her fathers head.
The dead were taken in another car,
and the train pulled out like funeral
procession. 1t took nearly two hours
IN Uat her fathar homo and ha uac
abed for several months. The girl
gave up her place in the depot and
nursed him until he was able to sit on
the piazza and watch the trains 60
by"
1t was an Irishman who, on CT N.
Ing down steep hill on a mountain
coach, suggested that it would per
haas be more sensible scheme to have
IN tho hnrSaS P1IcE