The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-06-07


with the storm howlin' all around us,
and the rain fairly sizzlin' down on
the engin,
Morris and / kept a sharp look.
)It with our hearts lyin' pretty near
our throats; for we wasn't very sartin
Is to what minute VIC might come TO
some onucKy end.
"lOu see, tho road wasn't no
/ double trackcr, all the way, in those
days; we had passed two out-trains
waitin at stations for the delayed
Eastern; and thought we might just
Is likely as not telescope into II along
the track. And you see tnat wasn't
very cheerful thought, with us
| ,raNclin at the rate OF nearly mile
minute.
The old superintendent said never
I word, but he couldn't even smoke
| The cigars he ghtcd, oaly kept bitin'
/ The ends OIL and pitchin' OF 'em away.
"And when we got down into the
Coon County, in the long stretches Of
wuOd-we'll soor be a-passin through
en-, mdam-the wind was Jest a
tcarin' az trees aud made the
| limbs and shaders beat across
/ the track that even with the light
/ u the cngln' we couldn't always make
Jut what they was: and a dozen times
Jr so Morris and l looked at each
other sort nf goOd-by
hut at last we ilew out of the
:hadcrS almost down by Coon Creek.
U a IannarnNG
u Il place; first the creek, with a
narrow brilgc-and one track across
IT, and then n high bit OF land,
through viii h the road had been cut
with IA sudden curve.
"Wcll, we were just a-sweepin'
near enDug TO see that the creek
wa, awfuliy swollen, when Morris
gave Il sore I'm.
Good heavens" says he, there's
4 woman on the hridger
II looked. and sure enough there
'hc was: taking careful steps from
inc plank TO another, with the river
l.rushin' beneath her.
"'Ale,' says the superinte ndent,
stop the engine. for heavens sake,
stop the engine"
i can't, sir says ]. It's too
late and Just then she saw the light
)i the cngln', turning round, and
threw W her arms; and there we
we're, bearing down upon hcr-though
Morris was slowing up the best he
.ould.
"A sudden thought came to me.
m Gtalt hssN ,l
;en for the womans life, and that
,nance I'd give her. for the sake OF
The mother and sister l loved at
home.
III sprang out on the engin', and
down TO the cow catcher
"The bridges, as l said afore was
narrow; and IL hadn't SO much as
plank OF sidn'.
II reached my place Just in time.
Another minute and she would have
been lost so young and pretty she
was, ton
"a ~o ~n s9oa he- eso
logs-i gathered oil my .rciss., aau
dung her into the riyer.p
''uood gracious" cried /, wrought
up IN a state OF intense excitement
by the narrative, II thought you
were going 70 try and save her."
That's just what I'm a-tellin'
you" said the engineer "You see,
10y the time We got across the bridge
we slowed up. Now, sir says l TO
the superintendent Pm a good
swimmer Can l 90 in after the
grip"
lies says he, and, Morris, you
take a lantern and go on ahead along
the track, and give me the other, and
III see II | can help Abe, here, rescue
the girl
Il just no. ped right into Coon's
Creek
81 knew the current would bring
her toward our bank, only little
lower down.
"Ani sure enough found her, and
got hcr out IN no time; and, If you'll
believe me, the plucky Little thing
was a-cl.ngln' TO an oil can she had,
lnd rs NoOh as she opened her eyes
called out:
I'm all right! Take the oil
quick, quickn
" Take the oil for what?' saws /,
thinkIn' she must be somethin' wrong
in the head.
''But just then saw Morris Ian.
tern come Iush ng back along the
Track, like mad, and he a-screamln'
to the superintendent.
There's been a landslide round
In the cut and the wires are broken.
and the rails half-covered with sand
and stones"
Yes, that's it, said the girl, and
the Express hasn't come YETI
And then she closed her eyes. as
II she had done her duty and left the
rest with us.
"Well, the Superintendent sent
Morris round the other end of the
cut with his lantern, and when the
express came lalong, twenty minuues
after, he succeeded In stoppin' her.