Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-04-08
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND. INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts AMI Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

Queer Facts AMI Thrilling Advcn.
lures Which Show That Truth l.
Stranger Than Fiction.
''Ir IS not often that an engineer STAYS
or his seat in the face of a collision if he
has chance to jump" said an old rail
road man. when he doesn't Jump it's
because he hasn't time. | remember
once when an engineer was metaphor
cally frozen to his seat. was on the
engine at the time See these gray hairs. "
and he pushed back his hat. II got
them all in about two minutes. 1t
happened on the indianapolis division
of the Pennsylvania line. | was in
charge of the fast mail train No. z, and
Charley Mann, as good an engineer as
ever took hold of throttle, was hauling
us. No. is "a fast train, anyhow, but
that night we were late out of Columbus,
and tell you we were splitting the
wind. Having nothing else to do
climbed over to the engineer and asked
Charley to let me run her awhile, and he
pushed over to give me room. Every
thing went as lovely as a May day dance
until we started down the hill Sudden
ly red light showed up ahead of us on
the track. The awfuness of that minute
| can never describe. 'We are gone.
Charleyp | yelled to the engineer behind
me. There's flat car ahead of us.
See that red light Charley saw it and
started to get down. | yelled to him
not to do it; that we might escape death,
but if we jumped from that engine,
running at least eighty miles an hour,
we would be killed sure. / shut off the
steam, and, throwing on the air-brake,
began plugging her The wheels re-
versed, but she rode over the sand as if
there was none on the track. Charley
chung to me with wide-staring eyes, and
| honestly believe he was praving.
Nearer, nearer we rushed to that fatal
light-and dashed past it. Soon we had
stopped. and | called the fireman to 90
back, with me and ascertain what it was.
He could not move, and when | pulled
him from his seat he was as stiff as
poker, and it was several seconds before
he could utter sound. The poor fellow
was paralyzed with fear, and it was
long time before he recovered. What
was the red light doing there2 A fool
agent had come up the track to flag n
train following us and had left his red
light near the rails. When | meet MIN
meyer felt SO much like numbering a
man in my life
A PECULIAR accident in which COW
and fast-hying locomotive figured
prominently happened on the Metro
politan Branch Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, near Terra Gotta. few DAYS ago.
The locomotive, the Chicago limited
eugine'S40, piloted by Peter Yaeger, the
famous ''fast runner" engineer, noted
for his thirty eight minute trip from
Baltimore to this city with fire engines
at the time of the Patent Office fire, was
on one OF his fast runs When nearing
this place two cows were on the track.
AS the second one got off it was caught
IN cramped position at the end of a
standing box Car and was struck by the
locomotive in such a way that its tail
was cut off as cleverly as could be within
three inches of its body and thrown
hundred feet away, leaving the COW
otherwise unhurt The tail is in the
possession of Alexandra johnson, the
Baltimore and Ohio yardmaster He
has been railroading for twenty-five
years, but says this was something phcn-
omenal and vows he will send it with
its history to the worlds fair if he can
find place for it. The owner of the
COW has already claimed DAMAGES, but
whether for the value of the tail or com
pensation for his trouble in keeping
flies off the unfortunate animal during
the coming summer is not yet known to
the officials of the railroad.
SIR WILLIAM DALEY, the noted Eng
fish specialist in aural surgery makes
public remarkable series of facts re
gafding the influence of emotions upon
the senses. lie mentioned lady who,
standing before the toilet table and look
ing through the door into the dressing-
room, saw in a mirror the reflection Of
her husband. in the act of cutting his
throat. From that moment she was alb
solutely deaf. Similarly sudden loss
hearing happened to young married
lady who was suddenly brought face to
face with her dead husband at time
when she believed him to be quite well
and when she was going to meet him
after long absence. On various occa-
sions Sir William Daily has noted the
remarkable effects produced upon the
hearing by emotional influences, not
only by great mental shocks, bat by
mental strain. He has known not only
sudden grief, but also overwhelming Joy,
instantly to make a person quite deaf,
has known the sense of smell to be lost
by strong emotional influence and with
this the sense of taste.
FRENcH lovers sometimes resort TO
bold expedients to circumvent the law
which forbids marriage without consent
of the parents of both the bride and
groom, even though the couple be each
fifty years old. A case before the courts
is that of the sun of a distinguished
General and the daughter of wealthy
Martinique couple who had separated.
The father Of the bride gave his consent,
but the mother refused A clause of the
Laws provides that If parent has disap.
peared and four persons swear 10 the
fact consent may be waived The groom
produced four persons who sworc that
his prospective mother-in law was now.