Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-04
THE HAUNTED TUNNEL
A RAILROAD TRAVELLERS AWFUL EIPE-
RIEsCE IN COLORADO.
Il Sounded Through the Car and Yet No Canss
For the Sound Could Be Assigned.
What Was Discovered
By Accident
Philadelphia Tmxs.


"Did you ever hear OF that haunted
tunnel out in Colorad0?" asked a travel
ins man who works for New York
firm and makes his headquarters In this
city. swell, 1t is there, right enough.
/ am able to testify to that. You
wouldn't call me q superstitious man.
would you? 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 ex-
planned on any theory am acquainted
with, for have investigated it thor
oughly.
at was about year sgo that came
across the mystery first. / was travel
ing down through the country one night
about the LIST OF September. 1t was
early in the evening-about o'clock, l
think. was trying to read little, but
was not succeeding very well, as IL
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 the train plunged into utter dark
ness and knew we were in tunnel.
"We kept trailing along through the
darkness for an interminable length OF
time. The tunnel was evidently very
long one. began 10 wonder curiously
what my fellow-travelers were doing,
aud picturing them at all kinds of
stealthy and murderous work. Now, /
am not suspicious. l had not dreamed
of such a thing five minutes before, and
yet without any cause, an image or
some man slipping up behind somebody
with drawn knife in his hand was so
vivid to my minds eye that 1t might as
well have been burned in fiery lines
against the black background OF the
tunnel.
"And while I gazed upon II with some
sense OF vision other than my natural
eyeslght, suddenly the loud, piercing,
thrilling scream OF woman sounded
through the car.
"For moment pandemonium reigned.
When the car shot out into the light,
presently, there we all were cropping
about the car, our eyes wide open and
our lips blanched. / 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 wo-
man in The car. In the direction where
the voice had sounded the seats were
empty, and the astonished looks bent
upon those empty seats showed that
every occupant OF the car had heard the
same sound and from the same direc-
tion.
without q moments hesitation ]
sprang and pulled the bell-rope. The
train came TO stop, and pretty soon
here was the conductor, wanting to
know what the devil, ETC., etc.
"You have run over 4 woman" /
shouted, for / was wrought up to the
highest pitch. Back there In the tun-
nel-you must have done It! We heard
her scream, every one OF us-didn't we?'
and l turned for corroboration to the
men who stood around, and whose very
looks were confirmation enough.
THE conductor had turned deathly
pale. He tried TO tell US that IL was ali
imagination, but we wouldn't hear Ia
IT, We were mad in minute. We con.
cluded these heartless railroad men just
ran over people for pastime, and then
cleared out and left them TO die by the
roadside II they were not already dead.
We made the conductor take his lantern
and 90 back with us to look for the wo.
man that had been run over in the tun.
| mel.
And we walked all that long dis.
lance and examined every foot Of the
ground, and not only saw no sign OF any
crushed and mangled body. bat we saw
not even a stain Of blood. I'll tell You,
we were puzzled set as we went back
to the train and resumed our journey
up the road.