Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-07-19

n yoer1hlo Wruck prevented ~ the
sss 9s v1sesa ee = Dyen6 MAa.
PSs0 ~ ~ IoG1s Clu6p DelnoeraI
a nsuhef q reilrosd men ~ In ~ 70.
teuda q ~ IAgleds the other night ex-
ZION gr6duaily dritted into stories having
! saeSrnati1vS1 tings, qnd among them was
The following. related by well known
eoms yssrs sso,v hs said. "in the town
quarters Of the Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad's
Chicago division, there lay sick engineer
named BoarS1man. He was wildly deliri.
Gus, and his rawlings took . serious aspect
. times. One evening he was told that
Engineer Moses had been called to take
soiiowins No. 3. Engine ~ sia =, was sine the prids %
Of the road and OF Its engineer, then no
eeriously sick. II had not boou sent out
before, the foreman Of the roundhonse
wishi1g to gratify the wishcs of its eDgl-
neet, but on this Occaslon II was necessary.
~ specia! train containing an opera COM
pany had to make Washington In twenty
hours, = run of $50 miles from Chicago, aud
NO other engine on the Chicago division
was equal % the speed demanded by the
Sosfdmau, lying in his bed, was sud-
denly gifted with supernatural power,
and IN his rawlings would say:
80 Hicksville!i Ha! How she spins
Runs UP the st. Joe grade like the wind
Twenty-Five miles; one stop for water,
ono stop for railroad crossing and thirty
minutes gone!'
"Then he would be quiet rs the grave for
. moment.
80 Holgatei Listen at her spin! She's
got the crossing. There she goes. Defiance
to Ho!gase was like step to her.
Could he have the power Of second sight to
watch the movements ofthe train? One Of
the boys was sent to the dispatcher's Office
but u few blocks away. Before he returned
Boardman had called out water station
and said
80 Four minutes lost. Why couldn't she
do without waterf All, ah I Watch her
pound sand now. Isn't she beautyf'
The man had returned from the tele-
graph office, and told the other watchers
that he had followed the train correctly. A
feeling Of awe came over the boys. The
sick engineer was IN seeming. trance.
His breath canre slower and more iaborious.
The boys crowded nearer and were about
to raise hlm in the bed, so that he could
catch his breath easier, and the family were
about him and cried:
80 irifini Red light Stop for orders!
My God - iicre he held up his hand as
II reading an order.] Stop No. second
tiys, Aye engine No. 7i2' Prepare S, to meet thy
..Then he sank back in the bed, dead.
The hOrried boys stood amazed and speech.
less. II was presentiment. One rushed
forth to the dispatcher's Office and cried to
the cast end man:
For Gods sake, Dizzy, stop second five
at Republic
''Quick over the wires the call went and
was answered, and then this message:
Stop secoud five.' There was wait of
breathless anxiety when the news came
back: Second five is stopped. Conductor
wants to know what for.p b this time
the story was known In the ulspatcher,s
Office, aud the answer was sent to Repub-
lic: Had a terrible presentiment. Tell
conductor to proceed cautiously to Chicago
Junction.
'' Hardly had the answer gone when
Attica called up and said:
"Stop second five at Republic. First
five ditched a mile west Of here; engine
and three cars off. Cow on track. En-
gineor killed by jumping
"'And tue man who had saved probably
five score of lives lay a corpse at his homo,
with his sorrOwing family surrounding
him. The opera company made up purse,
which, together with the life insurance he
had carried, made the engineers family
independent for the rest of their lives. +"