The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
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How Jim Lyle's Unerring Eye Aided Him
In Saving the Paymaster's Car.

How Jim IYle's Unerrins Eye Aided Him
in Saving the Paymaster's Car.
Among the recently invigorated liars Of
the town is one just returned from a session
with ozone in Colorado. It was his first trip
through the mountains, and he was much af-
fected by the feats of engineering skill there
manifested, as witness the following:
~ 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 he 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 n 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 il
where Jim Lyle saved the paynlaster O. the
road
"'HowF inquired
at were this way: The paymaster's car
was hitched onto the hind end O. the freight
train, his own engine havin' had 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 a sudden the. back
brakeman comes a-runnin' up and yells to
Jim:
Pull outl 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 paymaster's car, so be
pulled out right peart an tried to OUTRAGE 'eIn,
but it want ND 60. They KEEP gitten' up on
him.
pretty soon he struck the beginnin' 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 ont, an just as we reached right
here he jerked her wide open. Then we see
what was what. Lookin' back, l, bein' on
Inc JIdiu, SStl Ialc ltSb COdSil +,
there was jerk, an away over into the canon
she went
"'Well where does the salvation OF ths
coach come inp asked. 4 don't see any par.
ticular advantage in being spilled over a
mountain side and being shot by train rob
bers' 5000
"'Now don't git risky said the old man,
I'm tellin' this yere an I amt done That
there coach, rs say, sailed over off1n the
track just lilOs the hind boy did when you
used to play "crack the whip" at school II
foated down as nice as you please an Lii Oh,
the track below in the valley, an with the
force it was slung rolled ten miles to the next
station. When we got there it was in on the
sidin' an we pulled by, an when the light
engine load O. rustlers come pullin' along the
townspeople was waitin' fer 'em an the new
cemetery was started in good shape w
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