Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-25

se'eu'y-nVe ises OF sne nrss secuon ana no
ence OF my railroad life. OF course had to
pu. on great deai OF dignity with the men. but
VIC! uever nesro OF tne occurrence from mead
tu.. seIs, - ING conductor nao the drop on me.
49,. 10; auu NY oMh Poeiuon oepsnoeo upon
'" s.Ws oeinS n,Ain'aineo IN the matter.
Al. "AeIe 'nefe any o.nor remarkapie escapes
tnat came 70 your knowledge during that
nlqeilso 1hs reporter.
vi .nein' ou' none 70 equal tne one
.Sn Jus' oiu you OF. nave you ever heard OF
y; az LIZ ,n u was hetaIy frozen 20 .ne seat
Of nv orav hairs rsms ;th M ,snm nos.
"a H. s, s nairs came WIN tnat experience
sni. ~ .arr;hI. sps,syss was 'ne na.uIa re-
at the time "fP'0 W 1'
MANY queer things happen in the railroad
business. I have seen an engineer lose car
gu, OF MS tram while running at full speed
"; ~ nnSGwng II, .ne cars Delng coupled up
occnrr.d -, D.e s Al uns eoupii.s pm nas ~
tbe rails tro,,, r'oIoo % ~ oe.s VI
inc d;tcbeS ~. corr,;no hois,na NC ~, ,%n ~.
mil the 80 st,t;oup .s uP ane
t;on discoror.5 -. "s sl-: 10 anu VI. ~
for excitement "A laval "--
AFT is NOT of.an that O, .r,;r.or .,,rs IN h;s
seat in tbe face Of a coiIis;n,, If ha ba: ch,rno
To hmm VIII, he doasn,t ;rmr - IL h.o.nso
he hasn't the time. 7 was cor,ipp east ON tbe
Cincinnati express and occnnied the f;reman's
seat keeninc = .hor,, IooIor,t - -. r;,n;,,, a.
bell when eross;ncs or small torns hnse Inv Nv
sight.
Little Phil Underwood aa oood an eno;neor
as ever pulled , tbrottl. Vas The enc;neer
The EXPRESS ia a fnst train on her rsonI,r
schedule Int trains were aIw.vs !. 70 tint ga
owing to the western travel and ha;ng bsey;Iy
laden, That night we we're late az nsnaI mil.
ing ont of Altoona ond taI yon mo r..
splitting the wind Getting tired Of being
alone on my side of the cab and having so lii.
tie to do I climbed over to the engineer and
asked Phil to let me RIM her awhile and he
pushed back on the seat to give me room I
might add that had graduated from thu ranks
OF the engineers to nv present position.
rur sc.p on
.puu.,:. -'
"e "s io'ei! may oay
dance until we started down the hill Just west
Of the Juniata valley about mine miles above
Huntington on the middle division. We were
running like the wind and had abont tvaIve
crowded Pullmans behind us.
"Suddenly a red Iieh. showed mn ahead nj ma
on the track. The awfulness of that moment
can never describe
ave are gone, Phil yelled to the ene;-
neer behind me. There's a fat car .bsad og
U.s. See that red Iiebt?'
"Phil saw it and started to get down. I
yelled to him not to do il. that We MIGHT escane
death, but if we jumped from that engine.
running at least eighty miles an hour. we would
be killed sure.
81 shut of the steam and. throwing on the
air, began plugging her. The wheels reversed
put sie rooe over inc sand as II there was none
St a nc ~ h eiuus 70 me WIN vice.
ing. Ne; rer. nearer we rnshed to that fatal
light and in a twinkle dashed by it. but no
crash came, and our breath came from our
bodies in gasps
"Soon we were stopped and called to the
fireman to go back with me to find out what
was the cause of the danger signal. He could
not move, and when pulled him from his seat
he WIS as stiff as a poker and it was several
minutes before he could utter a word. The
poor fello. was paralyzed with fear and it was
a long time before he recovered.
What was the red light doing there? fool
agent had come up the track to flag train
following us. and left the red light stand on
the ties beside the rail- When l met him INV
hands itched to let go from the shoulder. and
the fireman wanted to swIpe him with the
lantern he was CARRYING. 1t was a narrow
escape for all of u.s. because il we had been
running, say about forty or fiftv miles an hour
instead of flying as we were doing, we would
have taken the chances of being killed bv Jump
ing.
Experiences something similar but not ouite
so thrilling were occurring at frequent in
tervals that year, and look for the same sort