Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-11-28

kls~ Of a foreign machine in Ii
haAa
started her easy, felt my cars a
gg l5id- Il was before the days 0
so q trains aud couplers. We pulIe,
ttffafs We had a run of seventy
fol 1miles schedule time two hours
tN to.run,it in one hour and twent
mipates. There were to be thre
sleN-ups and one dead halt at
drdNer. That would give Inc most O
the miles in about sixty seconds.
of en- do that for a mile or two; ever,
fast train does every day. But sew.
enty-four such miles are mighty trying
on q machine, and nigh on to the enc
you don't know what minute the pool
old creature may break her heart OF
ye.'
4 looked the Sycamore over as
took her out O. the shop always dc
that with my own eyes; but if had
known what we were to try on, I'd
given those connectlng-rods more at
telfion. We used to wedge them on
the. wheels; you have seen the steel
kew? Nowadays they are fastened
in ..3e shops 81 the men can't wedge
theA TOO tight every station or two.
1t i tbs new way of fastening that
causes the ringing noise that you now
hc'e as th. Big drive wheels pass you.
Diason never notice?
glyell, soon began to feel of her
wiad. She W not long in making
thai firemen's box too uneasy for my
general manager. He danced like a
toy man. Then he closed the window
aheld. Then he shut the one at his
sidi. and braced his legs. Then he
NJ ~ "indows alone, though they
not let Sc; g3e;;.A... he lost his hat which
place his hat. Tne a!a. The hagga@e
dust, anyway, so it was put into the
tool-chest. Now we were just flying
never took my eyes off the iron, but
out of the corners OF my eyes | saw
how distressed he was.
"He undertook to holler something,
but | paid no attention. The fireman
showed in the sprinklings fine; he
knew exactly how. Firing is half the
battle in big run Well, we were
going so well that | was afterwards
told the paymaster's car, which we
were pulling home, could not keep the
dinner-dishes on the table! No, sir
Twice, going round curves, every dish
the boys had was swept on the floor.
If we had had dining-cars in those
davs, wouldn't the soup have been
spilledw
~ should have thought your con-
ductor might have interfered," sug-
gestcd.
81 expected he would" was the re-
plv. "But as time went on, and oul
rate grew simply fearful on the pas
sengers, knew welI eh6iritgil tic Tic 555S;ssF
ductor had been scolded as well as the
rest. No; he told me afterward tha
he simply sat down and said his pray
ers. But to go on saw that we hat
made up twenty-eight minutes, thel
thirty, then thirty-t three-bcing only
seven minutes behind But there W,
huno. She could not increase her lead
do my best.
81 knew then that we should sool
begin to lose again, for she was heat
ing. Whether the boxes were luggini
on the cars or glue | could not b
sure. Then, too, it might have bee
the curves; at all events we were lug
ging and losing. We fell off | ca
culated some five minutes, wheE W
struck the tunnel. 1t was heavy ra
and straight track there and
pulled her clean out for one nor
spurt. live or die, as we dashed int
the steam and darkness of that Ion
hole. In there you can't see anythin
but signals. The S gamore answere
me for Just one plunge. But the nel
instant, crash God help me! III
whole side Of the cab was flying
splinters. knew what that meant.
jumped from my seat in front of Il
fire. box.
s.Thcre, under my seat, was Il
general manager. lie had been me
cifuily knocked in instead of out, b
he was senseless. My drivers he
their rod yet, but l knew the stra
could not last long without snappil
that rod, too, as ] could not find +
throttle to shut her of. 1t was
, queer about that throttle. turn
{ round and round trying to find it;
a kept turning to the left l thought
had an extra eye just over my ei
n and my other two eyes were bin
4 The new eye showed me a beautif
i clear light, but not the thrott
G Round and round that fearful ST.
Il hammer. the broken rod, kept cra'
Il mg and tearing out the shreds of
II cab on that side, Then the other c