Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-10
AN ENGINEERS EXPERIENCE.
The Ohio Man Says 1t Never Could Hay
Happened In His State.

Happened In His State.
from the New \ ORR Herald.
1t was one of those cold, rainy summer nights
that are not unfrequent in the mountains, and
a group of men had drawn up their chairs be-
fore the open fire. The flames, dancing glee-
fully, cast extravagant shadows against the wall
and the cracking OF the log fire alternated
with the sound Of the rising wind.
This reminds me of q tough night once
had. said one of the PARTY, and he knocked the
ashes from his pipe as he spoke. THAT was the
last night run l Civ up engineerin' after
that. Somehow / couldn't stand il no longer
Nv narves got the best OF me-"
He leaned forward. gazing into the fire.
at was nine years ago thi- very month -" he
continued, land somehow this rain and the
wind a-screechin' reminds of it all Good
Lord, how it did thunder and tighten that night
was then rulnin on one of the roads down in
Yorkshire, an didn't have no roo on the cab
but only a so-, OF a screen up in front. | don I
know why they don't give US all-round cabs in
the old country. onle-s they calculate that we
attend to business better when we're ouconforta-
bic. Well. as | started TO say, on this pertker-
lar night. the fireman was took with one o his
spells. He got he had EN- often sor;er
queer and twitchin' like. We Was going purity
fast. for it was down grade. and We was twenty
minutes behind. too In one of his commissions
he Jest went right out of that cab like a streak
L Felt a jar. There was a flash of hShtnen that
made everything clear as day. and saw on the
boiler stack as / lain as see any of you head
with teeth grfnnin and eyes starin' at me.
Then all was black again"
The speaker gazed for minute OF two then
looked up vacantly Mt his companions.
well, rs said, never went onto the road
again. That's the reason / came 20 Ameriky
and took Up mimi. 1t amt SO hard on fell
lers narves"
But what did you do when YOU saw .ha,
S,aA ahn.l v no taA -. Al
whole story.
Il never knew what happened at the time ex-
cept that the fireman fell OFF and We rode over
somethin, and the next minute there was head
on the boiler. They sfterward told me that the
train came to a standstill purity soon and some
body came and poured water over nv face
seein' as how had tainted. I'll never forge,
that night not if l live hundred years. he
added. soberly.
WAS that really the freman's head that YOU
saw or simply hallucination?" asked an Ohio
man who had been listening with considerable
interest
"'Twasn't no Authorization nor Imagination
nor nothin' but a head, but it wasn't the fire.
mans. He was picked up afterward, not very
much hurt, either. 1t seems We passed by a
cattle guard, and some lunytik put his heat
through-thar WAS an asylum near-and wher
it was cut of it few right up and the blood
made i, stick to the hot boiler"
A silence followed the speakers exclamation
that is, a silence within--and each seemed to b,
recounting the horrible experience. Outsid,
the wind shrieked louder and more demoniac
ally than ever.
Some one got up ard put fresh log on tn.
law fire.
The frs. to break the silence was the Obi,
man.
''Waal." he remarked slowly with an air O,
seriousness strangely in constrast to his words
that thing never could hev happened in m,
state. We don't low dead heads on the Ohit
Valley road"