Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-04-22
THOUGHT DEATH SURE.

1t is 1913 miles from Atlanta to Ma
con as the Georgia Central runs, and
the schedule time for the fast mail is:
Leave Atlanta at 4:3J, arrive at Ma
con G:45, including four stops, several
"sI1w" signals. and more than one
heavy grade. Two hours and fifteen
minutes was indeed scant time, but the
stops reduced the actual running to
inside of two hours. Short time for
so lono a run and o! so very short to
the man with his hand on the great
lever, his ewes strained ahead along
the rails, and the assurance firmly set
In his heart that each revolution of the
wheels beneath was hurting him to an
Inevitable doom.
Tom Meyers was a railroad engineer
anu pulled the fast mail over the At
lanta and Macon division of the
Georgia Central railroad. He was
quite a young man, but was known to
be thoroughly reliable, sober, and
without fear, and had been chosen
from among many men older in years
and service to run the fast train.
Tom Meyers knew in his heartily
one Of those mysterious prcmonitions
thai at times come to doomed mOrtals,
that defy all reason and SO rarely fail
of fuiElIment that he was rushing
onward to his death in some Violent
and awful form.
Tom had known that it must be so
that morning as soon as he had opened
his eyes, and knew that no human
power could evade his fixed destiny.
His wife kissed his haggard face and
smiled a bright good-by, while his
4-ycar-old baby girl ran with him
down to the gate, chattering pleasant
ly and urging him to get back soon
for play on the grass. But it was
with Che pain and cold desolation of
death in his heart that he stepped
into the cab Of his engine, No.
I'll. for the trip north, leaving Macon
at 9. arriving in Atlanta at 11:15.
This run was made in safety and on
time.
While waiting in Atlanta with other
railroad men the COny ersation had, of
course, been OF the road and shops 1t
was recalled by one how Young Franz
Hujltzcr had been crushed beneath his
engine in recent accident down near
Griffin. lie mj@hr have jumped and
sa} Cj himself. said another. Yes"
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sandwich or mug of beer could move
him. Ed Munday's awful death by
scalding in the Barnesville collision
was then discussed; then the terrible
telescoping affair out beyond West
Point was brought up with all its hor-
rors and Tom Movers felt blue indeed
as he remembered little Bertha at
home waiting for him IA come and
iojn her in q 6Iay ON fine rras.
He never drank Therefore when
DromDflv nj 40 y m he stepppd into
fha oh for thn rcfnY1 rim he was No.
feclv sober and ~ he drew hack the
lever and the tbrobbinr ENGINE slowly
nullad ont of Tho oar. S6nd rs Atlanta
loves 70 con u the the or %roat '' Union denot
there seemed perfect sympathy be-
troo, Mod ond iror hntwon;, mo
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nev-tiIlod folds who're in recent war
time, bravo bIua and o.r,, clad men
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minute-it re0nires bravo man, one
to whom duty and honor are dearer
than life IN ride ca ,-bap ono motion
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