The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-14
THE HAUNTED TUNNEL.
A RAILROAD TRAVE LER'S Elk
PERIRNCE IN COLORADO.

Dying Shrek of Woman on a Fast
Express Train-The Passengers on
Board Almost Parslyzed With Fear
AEonizing Cry Sounded Through the
Car, and Yet No Cause.
From the Philadelphia Times.
"Didiyou ever hear,of that haunted tunnel
out in Coloradon asked a travelling man
who works for New York firm and:mskes
hi headquarters in this city. "Well, it is
there, right enough. am able 20 testify TO
that. You wouldn't call me superstitious
man, would youl No more superstition
| about me than there is about grindstone;
and yet say there is something queer about
that tunnel, and that it can't be explained
on any theory / am acquainted with, for
| have investigated it thoroughly.
at was about year ago that l came
across the mystery first. l was travelling
down through that country one night about
Sept. l. Ii was early in the evening, about
2 O'Clock, think. l was trying to read a
little. but was not succeeding very we'll, as
| it hurts my eyes TO read on the cars. All
the passengers IN my coach were men.
! That fact had Just struck me as rather
peculiar. and had looked the car over to
make sure l was right, when all at once
Tue tIdlu plunged into utber uArkneSS, ana
knew we were in tunnel.
1--WE kept trailing along through the
darkness for an interminable length of
time. The tunnel was evidently long one.
/ began wondering curiously what my
fellow-travelers were doing, and picturing
them at all kinds Of stealthy and murderous
work. Now, am not suspicious. l had not
dreamed Of such thing five minutes before.
and yet, without any cause, an image of
some man slipping up behind somebody
with a drawn knife In his hand was 30 vivid
to my minds eye that it might as we'll have
been burned in fiery lines against the black
background of the tunnel.
And while ! gaEed upon 1t with some
sense OF vision other than my natural eye
sight, suddenly the loud, piercing, thrilling
scream Of q woman sounded through the
| car.
| PANIC IN THE CAR.
"For a moment pandemonium reigned.
| When the car shot out into the light, pres
emily, there we all were cropping about the
car, our eyes wide open and our lips
blanched. l could have sworn that the
woman was not four feet away, and that l
| could have leaned forward and touched her
but there was no woman in the car. In the
| direction where the voice had sounded the
seats were empty, and the astounded looks
bent upon those empty seats showed that
every occupant Of the car had heard the
same sound and from the same direction.
without moments hesitation sprank
and pulled the bell rope. The train came
10 a stop, and pretty soon here was the con-
ductor, wanting to know what the devil,
etc.
"You have run over a woman" shouted,
for was wrought up to the highest pitch.
Back there In the tunnel-you must have
done i'll We heard her scream, every one
Of us-didn't wei" and l turned for corrob-
| En- tho VIII stood around and
whose very looks were confirmation enough.
1.-THE conductor had turned deadly pale.
He tried TO tell us that 1t was all imagina-
ton, but weiwouldn't hear to IL. We were
mad in a minute. We concluded that these
heartless railroad men just ran over people
for pastime, and then cleared out and left
them to die by the roadside If they we're
not already dead. We made the conductor
take his lantern amigo back With US to look
for the woman that had been run over III
the tunnel
And we walked all that long distance
and examined every foot of the ground, and
not only saw no sign of any crushed and
of blood. I'll tell you we were apuzzled sci
as we went back to the train aud resumed
our journey up the road.
CURIOSITY AROUSED.
But no old woman IN the world ever
had more curiosity than l have, and
hadn't gone two miles before l decided that
| / must find out what was the matter with
that tunnel. happened to have a weeks
leisure on my hands, sd stopped Off at q
little town five miles Up the road, made
myself comfortable at the hotel, and set &C
work to investigate the mystery.
IL walked through that tunnel and
climbed over the mountain above 10 aud
wandered through the gorge below 1t, with
what object 10 is hard to tell, except that
Na.kxk Al
OF the mystery. / went through the tunnel
shouting and singing 10 find If there were
not some popularity In the way the sound
was focused, which might produce the effect
| l had heard. | even spent sundry dollars In
pursuing a long-limbed and freckled coun-
tryman 10 60 yelling through the tunnel
while stood still and listened. The echoes
were forthwith started by a long drawn
'Whhoopeel Yay-hoo-oi Did you hear
that, misterl There want nothin' wrong
about that yell, was thereP And I wa
forced to confess that there want nothin
wrong with the yell, nor with the echoes IL
aroused. and 10 give up the pursuit and go
away baff1ed.
CONTINUING THE SEARCH.
"Bur. no, didn't give it up. went
back there again one more time and walked
about and stared at the rocky walls of the
tunnel, as IL the whole story might be
written on them somewhere. AS walked
about in this discontinued mood heard all
at once, the loud rumble of the approaching
train rounding a curve few hundred yards
away. stood aside, close against the wall,
and presently here 1t came. with its great
fiery eyes burning through the darkness,
and its horrible roar intensified by the close
shut walls. 1t was the morning express.
The locomotive and tender passed me, then
the mail and express coaches and baggage
car. and then, one after another, five pas
senger coaches, followed by two sleeping
cars.
THE last Of the day coaches was driving
past me, and was involuntarily clutching
at the lodges OF rock to keep myself from
falling and rolling dizzily under the wheels.
Suddenly out Of the roar and din came q
womau's shrek, almost like a knife plunged
into my ears. And it came from the car.
1t was the same piercing, agonizing scream
l had heard on the train and 1t came from
that carl
THE MURDERER DISCOVERED.
81 got out Of shat tunnel somehow and
went back to the town. l believe they all
Thoughts me crazy there, and watched me
pretty closely during my stay. But hur-
riedly packed my belongings and took the
train that afternoon, and when it had
started behold discovered that 1t was the
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