The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-19

usual and unacCountable speed, and as he
leaped to his feet in half-dazed fright
they shot through Tunbridge-a place at
which they were timed to make a ten
minutes stop-and he was conscious of
seeing, as in flash, crowd of fright
ened and awe-struck faces looking at the
train from the platform. He sank back
on the cushioned seat, seized with q name
less terror. Time and space seemed to
his. overweight nerves to be
filed with tokens of some
approaching calamity which he was
powerleSs to prevent; the terrific speed
and violent swaying of the train, the
shrill howl of the ceaseless whistle, the
terrible. darkness and silence. of every
thing outside his immediate surroundings,
and the recollection of that crowd
of terrified faces, all seemed TO thrill
him with a sense of impending horror,
and the wretched man sat terror-stricken
on his seat, q mere mass of highly strung
and delicate nerves.
Suddenly, as he looked into the black
night, a face passed the window, as of
some one walking along the footboard of
the engine; a stern-set face, as of one
going to certain danger and needing all
the pluck he possessed to carry him
through, and at the apparition the trav-
eler fairly shrieked aloud, but the face
In another moment there was sudden
shout, terrific crash, a wild chaos of
sight and sound, and our traveller knew
no more.
When next he found HIS senses he was
living among cushions and rugs in the
waiting room at Tunbridge Wells station.
He awoke with faint SILVER and tried
10 raise himself, but found to his aston
ishment that he could not so much as lift
Ey,cr A. ,n4 not hn rae
among those whom the busy surgeons had
given up as desperate cases and, after
doing all In their power to ease him,
abandoned in favor of more hopeful sub
jects but he did not know this.
Several of the passengers whose in
juries were only very slight, were discus
sing the accident in an animated manner,
and, as usual in such cases, many wild
and fanciful contectures were passed
about as truth. at last one said; n
"Does any one know the rights of the
matter7''
eyes, l do" volunteered young man
with an arm in a sling, and Margraf lay
silently listening, unable TO move or
speak
"Well, what is it,"
Gust after we passed Grove park
the fireman was on the from of the
engine oiling, when he felt the
locomotive increasing In Spe6u blll
it became so appalling that he grew
terrified and could not get back. He is a
young fellow and this is his trial trip At
length ne managed to crawl back to the
cab, where he found the driver lying, as
he supposed, dead. This 50 increased his
terror that he was only able to open the
whistle and pull the cord communicating
with the rear guard, and then fell in a
swoon across the tender.
"The rear guard. plucky young fellow
of about six and twenty, twiggling the
situation, came, as we all know, along the
footboard TO the acknowledgement lis
tened with all his remaining strength
sin order TO stop the train before it ran
into the Ramsgate express, but appa-
rently was too late"
"But what was up with the driver, and
where was the front guard in the mean
while2"
We'll it appears from what the front
guard says-marvelous how he escaped
with hardly scratch--both these men
had been drugged, and as they were both
of them to have run the mail train to the
continent tonight thinks look very fishy."
Margraf nearly tainted in his efforts to
listen more intently
"They were changed on to this train
at the last moment, and hence this acct
dent. The rear guard, poor fellow, was
shockingly mangled Stone dead, Of