The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-10
Experiences On the Rail.

Last Wednesday evening as train No.
on the a. V. V. Ry, in charge of Pat
Horn AS engineer and NJ. j.. McEnteer,
conductor. was running at good speed
just above Pancoast the train made q
quick stop. Up went the car windows
and rush was made for the doors to
see what was the matter. 4 short dis
tance in the rear Of the trein something
was lying in heap in the middle OF the
track. oh, horror. had smother victim
been run down by the merciless iron
horse? A man, woman and little girl
who lived in house hardly ran out and
the conductor and a humber of passen-
gers ran back to look at what they sup
posed to be the mangled remains OF
something. 1t was a sheepskin, and
nothing more. The engineer and fire.
man avow that some one pulled the
stop bell' on them. No one in the
train could be found who had pulled the
bell or who had seen anyone pull it. II
the bell did ring, was it the work OF a
ghost? The sheepksin was laid across
the rail so that the engineer and fire.
man could not tell what it was. and to
be on the safe side Horn applied the air
but he will not give in that the bell did
not ring. Pat Horn is little man but
he can haul a passenger or freight
train over the road as fast as any OF
them, in fact little too fast for real
comfort when behind time.
Railroad men are ever and anon hav-
ing experiences. In the early days of
the Low Grade railway when considera-
BILE oil was shipped over the road and
freight trains ran on through to Reno
vo, Pat Horn made the fastest run ever
made on the p. q +. railroad In those
days stub switches were used which run
a train off the track il turned wrong.
There We're two sections off the Low
Grade, Horn was hauling the first sec
tion, which pulled in on a siding six
miles this side Of Remove to pass p. &
f. train, the second section being too
late to make that siding After the p.
& f. train passed Horn started with his
train for Remove and the fiagman neg
lected TO turn the switch after the train
got out of the siding and it was not un-
til they had pulled into the yard at
Remove that the mistake was discov-
cred. Horn knew that it meant big
wreck and sure death to perhaps three
or four OF the crew who were following
him II that switch was not thrown for
the Main track. His brother was firing
for him and he said, "here, you get off
and let this brakeman fire for me, one
Horn is enough on this engine just
now," and his engine was cut loose from
the train and Horn started back for
that switch, and it is said he went back
like whirlwind. His engine had just
been stopped and the switch turned when
the second train off the Low Grade
went laundering by. The crew were
surprised to see Horn there with his
engine and no train or crew, yet they
gave him friendly wave of the hand
as they passed by, little thinking of
what an awful death he had barely
saved them from.
When the Low Grade road was being
built Mike j. McEnteer was conductor
on the gravel train and reckless fell
low by name of Jim Costello was his
engineer A man was killed at Summit
tunnel and the gravel train was sent
after the corpse to haul it to town
down the road for burial. When the
train was ready to start the engineer
said: "If this train jumps the track
that man has gone to hell, and II it
doesn't he has gone to heaven The
train was wrecked and M. j. McEnteer
had his leg broken in the wreck.