The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-04-07
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The Mastery Of Mind over Ruin
A Wreck and a Repair.

On yesterday morning, at about
8 o'clock train of Emptles com.
ing down the valley, was wrecked
at the road crossing near Falls
Mills, mile up from Logan. Thir-
teen coal cars, seven of which were
new, out of the shop this morning,
were crushed, warped, splintered,
piled three cars deep or high in a
mass of ruin on the track, covering
a space of about four car lengths.
The running gears of the cars lay
and stood sideways, endways and
mostly crossways over the tracks.
1t is supposed the accident re-
suited from a draw beam dropping
on the track and causing the fore
most car to jump the rail. The
car plowed into the ground, half
its length and stopped. The cars
following at a rate of about Is
miles an hour, rushed on it and
others following were heaped up
in a broken crushed mass, the
trucks remaining on the ground,
while the body of the cars torn off,
sided in and over and through
each other. 1t was graphic So
luton of the impossible problem
of an irresistible force striking an
immovable body. 1t was a veri-
table railroad wreck, the first we
ever saw. Fortunately no one was
hurt. The damage is the value Of
thirteen first class coal cars.
THE MASTERY OF THE MIND.
The morning train brought Super
intendent Conners. He FASTENED
to the scene accompanied by Mas
ter Mechanic Cowell and Yard
Master Brady and crew of rail-
road men at hand. The passen-
gers followed up and in short
time hundred and more of our
Logan citizens were on the scene
of the disaster.
The sight of the ruins was abso-
lutely bewildering, but we with
the hundreds of the observation
committee began wondering why
something wasn't done. Would
we have a transfer, must we be de-
layed week. Why not cnop the
cars up, saw them in two, roll
them over.
By some means unobserved and
from somewhere unknown, long
lines of rope cable began uncoiling,
huge chains clanked, jack screws
squated in unexpected places.
Picks, crow bars, shovels seemed
to grow out of the ground. The
workmen moved about we thought
aimlessly, but as it happened no
body got in any ones way except
us of the observation committee.
In the meantime Brady was here
and there seeing to the distribution
of ropes, chains, tools. Cowell
with quiet gesture indicated the
place for a stand of jack or the
fastening of a cable. The morn
ing train brought down Road Mas
ter Murphy. A motion a nod from
a quiet young man, and twenty or
more men of Drawn and brain
moved mysteriously under imme-
date direction, all armed with tools.
A pulley rope had been fastened to
a tree in McCarthy's field and at
tached to the locomotive, and the
end of a wrecked car. The engine
gave snort, pull, the fastening
of the car pulled off. "What's the
matter with the General Manager"
said we of the criticising crowd.
Again the engine pulls. The rope
breaks. s.He don't understand his
business was the unanimous vote.
I he jack screws had been at work.
We inspected. The wrecked cars
had been lifted off the track.
The locomotive with II chain
attached to third story car had
pulled il off the second story ri
der, and the bottom wreck, from
The lit of he jacks. rose up III
the Tree air.
A noise at the other end al
iracied our attention. A broken
car was railing over OFF the track.
We noticed a chain had been
fastened under and around 1t.
The engine had pulled at The tree
IN he field, and the tree pulled
over The Car. 1t was whispered
round, Somebody must under
stand this business.
We passed round 10 The other
side. A dozen or mole men with
bars were sliding out from under
the wreck, ihe track; stretch
of a hundred yards or more. was
moved intact. distance oul
six or seven feet. The track was
clear. A signal and on down
passed The train from Columbus.
not more than a half hour de-
laved.
II was marvellous. How wasll
done2 We don't k now. The
quiet lille man, not more than
thirty wears of age. moving abOnt
as though conducting a Sunday
school picnic. mnii"ning here and
there, suggestion 10 This and
that of his lieulenants, marshall
ing the forces with the precision
of The field marshal. and apply
ing ihe mechanical powers al his
command, with absolutely GER
tain results of a General, which
he IA. Mr.. Corners showed him