Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-11-26
A NIGHT WITH A CORPSE
AN EXPRESS MESSENGERS ADVENT
uRe IN THE WILD. WEST.

In an alley which by an easy descent
leads from lower broadway to the inferno
Of draws FERRIES aud uamins on North
river n chon hons. bnrro,vs henaa,h ,ha
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vorkmen from, !, III, ..x,,,.,ss h,,iIdins, ,aar
by and the interloper who set, down this
record.
The talk had sunk 10 the matter Of
corpses, which often travel by express.
though never by invitation Of the express
messenger.
During the winter OF 1885," said a burly
man with shock Of black hair. II was in
the Wells-Fargo service between Kansas
City and San Francisco. The run was
made upon the Atchison, Topeka and
Sante Fe and Southern Pacific railways,
that join at Demng On Christmas eve,
bearing eastward. with the tourney so far
done from Frisco the train drew out OF
Yuma, facing the Arizona desert In the
midst Of an astonishing storm OF sleet and
rain Yuma marks the California line,
and there, as we took on the stage com
/ panys strong box, counted upon the last
disturbance Of the night. Until daybreak
the Journey lay through Alkali stretches,
\ where at every 100 miles the train rushes
! shrieking through a poor, uncommercial
/ cluster OF huts and halts long enough for
| the locomotive TO take on water.
"Unscheduled stops, however, were not
infnequent at that time and there hung
within the car rack OF repeating car
bines, charged and primed
TRAyFttSc wIru 500 nn
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"a little slow mariner r,nliad n man
| an the nlatforu, .it,s. cnnir
"A moment later | vas alone with the
| cnrnsa In !, prisnp a. s.,pr, i. !, to,,h
| while n. yvLaels rnar,d hsna,t Il and tha
storm raved outside
"Somehow I WINS neryous and couldn,t
keep my ewes of that cofiip fanci.d that
il moved and was slowly rising nm ON end.
or that il was preparing an onslaught:
then that IL was about 10 disclose the dead.
The last of these uotions-that the oc.
cupant of the coffin might liberate herself
got hold of me and couldn't shake IL
of. The box was of unusual size and ex.
ceptionnlly III made The wood was rnuvh
warned and filled with knots and kpot
| holes. All this might easily have been due
| 10 the limited facilities of n desert town
| don't kno,y why lnit I couldn,t resist
| turning il over. face down. IL seemed 10
| me tn roll horribly
..Then imagined heard n noise M IN.
| car door and NJ ~. s.m,. mn,nant a p,oy.
ment IN The cnnin Tkne,v h vas fonIish
hut rolled ,he stage co,nnany,s s,rong
! how with it, 2no ,.cnnd. ~ ,,rIJ "a ,hs
! coffin and set n pnon tbe ii tn,yar,i ~.
| larger end
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sas .'ia. Ngs ho,il,leu ,pe uoesii s., e1'
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l staggered TO tne gun rack, tore doWh
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'he ,oa ven ,'yt "Na'
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humping anu tnr.ashihg ~ tne poA, i1red
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came iFantic ana shfiekea IKE tahatio
ssia i.,ie ..e asaa', an,' asain a .ns
uoA uti''i ,he in"s"1'ne was eN'''us'eu' anu
then rusheu y set hho.heI.
but .ne pine ''oA was spli. ana torn
h .ne lloa 'foA was Sow s1 .usns e, ~ aoMh,
throukh gaps ia 'he "ovu o'oou was
streaming anu u" so"i'us """'e'er isaueu
from thf comm