Arizona republican., 1892-12-23
BAGGAGE SMASHER

pstweeu the stories of Conductor Tom ,,rs and Sandy McTougal, backed by s'5y McTougal's friends, one gets a .,.tty good idea of Sandy's remarkable i,,.pture with voice, or, as Sandy .,u, it, with the devil in a box. rou Pope is conductor and McTougal ssggage master on the Air line, ,sieh runs from the Atlantic ocean to ss middle of next week"
 Most astonishing thing, that hunt of ,,siy's for voice, said the conductor, |, other night.
 aUnphP grunted Sandy, ''that may i. ysr way of lookin at it, but call it s,rin for the devil, and findin him." SAre you going to tell this story" in- ,,irsd the conductor.
 aSot by a long chalk" McTougal an- wrsd.
 Thsn Tom narrates, and very prettily w how he and Sandy were transferred night runs in August last, and how ,,sly the baggage man became because svss cut off from fellows to listen to stories and offer him cigars.
 sYoa allers smoked 'em, Tom," inter sytsd Sandy. "I don't smoke, ye rv,'
 I did get a good many puffs that ur. I'll admit" said the conductor. Thgwere about the only thing Sandy sr gave that could get any light out r
 als you telling this storyg" asked ETougal. If so, tell it."
 Sandy was lonely and miserable, r minued his friend. Nobody talked him or gave him a quarter for not zshing their baggage, so he took to rvn studies and maps between stations. De night of his voice business"- .Dsvil, tell you" cries Sandy bHptly.
 'Was crowded one, continues Pope, iihOut noticing the interruption. "His rVas jam full of luggage"
 And the more trunks Sandy has on Ml the crosser he gets. There was a mp meeting on a switch-of track, and ths junction picked up a lot of mob pssengers who were leaving for AI places of amusement, and there BHO end of trunks"
 -NcTOugal got things into shape but Il o'clock, reckon, and as there's lprt of the run where it's a good hour tween stations he got ready for sas, He picked out the softest trunk iAs pile on which to pillow his head, asd back his chair with his feet on the ,nis pulled his hat over his face and Vai to sleep. How's that, Mac?'
 Quite keerect," responds the bag a,s master.
 Very we'll; then you tell it for awhile. unt there, you know"
 'hdidn't seem s if I'd been asleep aNn minute" begins Sandy, "when ss was lively jump of the car an I Gd come to life with a jerk. At the Hs time l heerd, as if way of, a noise D some one a-talkin. But thought sS brakeman outside, an was jes' a1n of again when right at my ear, llthin, sharp voice, su'thin said, oh, .rlr
 iGin't no fool. ain't," Sandy asserts, rvving back his head defiantly, "an 'An that tin whisper comes into my Hl ies' half opened my eyes 'spectin se some of the boys around. But not lvh thing was visible. So l said to ESf, I mOred; that's what's the mat an of I goes a-noddin an dreamin. Then agin hears that voice. Itsays re distinctly, I want to get outF 'Sow want a bit mistaken this D. lheerd it. But fore l could get FEiis together there was a yell sound way of.
 That's my death call, says l to my instantly calling to mind fellows | had heard like sounds an were dead ESn week. Then I saysto myself, saty, don't be a foolr an jumps to my as wide awake as l am now.
 Y was woman's squawk, and l li have sworn to it. Then it sung 1h tn trumpet style:
 Help! helpr
 Hauled over the tool chest, an the RG barrel, and the cupboard in the aer, an looked out on the platforms ad everythin q man could do under Icumstances, to find out what was -asin of that fuss. l went to the aoOr to cool myself, an was a-fannin lace when, blame mel if I didn't acornet start off with the 'Rogues' GEa, and a gruff voice foller it with: Tn the midst of life we are in '!anked my head round, an didn't AQthin that wasn't there before. Y threw me of my pins. Then a Ss erowed, an a feller with cold as nose counted ten forward and ,Oackward, an another cuss, with a S4Iog voice, ordered me: Wake upl
 OeTl wants your You needn't sa, gentlemen, when I tell you run; "Oyou if you'd been thar, l was NA the devil had come for me-late sGe-an I didn't wait for him to @ my ticket"
 ..a Pope at this point broke into a s, brian laugh.
 u gentlemen, you'd seen Sandy
 lying into the car where was
 syou would never stop laughing.