Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-13

! most sh uted, and without looking
around even to see if he were OBJ
/ served, he umred on the engine,
opened the regulator to the full, and
as she tOuDde forward leaped OF at
| the other side.
AS Arthus Munro had quilted the
| carriage to look after the luggage,
| the only soul in the runaway train
| was poor MiIly. Munro had not left
the train a minute when loud shouts
OF alarm arrested him.
'sWhat is it? What's the maJter?"
| he asked, facing round with horri-
bic sus picion that BastabIe bad at
ia ked Milly.
'sThe express has run away" ex-
| claimed one porter.
Good heavens She'll be into the
B ngham train at Lifford." cried an
other
Milly was alone in the train, and
yet Munro did not lose his presence
of mind. Flying to the eEd of the
p atfOrm, he jumped upon the en-
CINE of the local, and withouta word
to driver or stOker put bis hand out
and seized the regulator. Before he
could open it the driver stopped him.
Hold on, sir! Hold on! Bill, un-
hook the traIn!"
In a minute Bill had leaped down,
unlocked the engine from the ira. n,
and was ba again on the engine
plate just as she began toagIide out Of
the station.
'Express!" shouted the driver,
pointing ahead to the runaway.
| Couldn't catch her up with load
like that on" chucking his thumb
behind toward the train they had
been detached from by Bill.
But they lost nearly as much time
by the stoppage to unlock the train
as they gained by the tightening of
the load, for the runaway had got al
most miles start by the delay.
'How far is Lifford?" shouted
Nun. O. IrantIcally.
''SiX miles"
''My wife Ny wife," he moaned
in blank despair
Then wrenching the shovel from
the stoker he proceeded to feed the
furnace, with all an experts skill
finging the coal far in and well to
the sides. Every other moment he
Strengthened himself to look ahead;
but though the engine was going now
at rate that made it rock and pitch
violently like boat in breakers, they
had not sighted the runaway yet
Suddenly she slowed down from sew
enty to fifty miles an hour, and
Munro, looking up, saw the steam
shut off.
ssW What? Why?" he cried.
"Litford distance" replied the
driver, pointing to the signal" GAIL
up by this ! We should only pile up
the smash now"
Then Munro lost all heart and
hope, and sank in heap on the en-
CINE plate. hiding his face with his
hands. Meanwhile, the driver, by
putting the b axe SO hard on that
the wheels of the engine gIowed red,
had nearly got her under control as
he swept around the curve and came
in sight Of the stat on.
All clear A wire from Worston
had got the Bingham train into a
siding only just IN time. AS they
gided past the platform the station
master shouted, =
They have wired to Rentham to
switch her into stop blocks at that
siding"
That was, of course, to wreck the
train against the block.
Munro heard, and, starting up like
a mailman, he wrenched open thu
regulator to the full, shouting only
''My wife My wife ~
1t was all he could ticulate for
the moment Presently, when they
had got again into swing, h cried, -
''My wife is in the carriage next
the engine )"
There's Benham Bank :" shout
ed back the driver encouraglngly.
BenJham Bank being a steep grad
lent of one in forty-eight, where the
sevenfoOt driving wheels of the eX-
press would need DIR ver'S Skilful
coaxing and sanding to keep them
trom slipping at every other revolu-
zion.
keeps the rails" shouted the driver
as they shot through a tunnel like
bullet thr ugh its ri barrel
All three men were now on the
lookout, since nothing more could be
done that driving or stocking could
do. In less than minute they woulI
sight Bentha II Bank, and. if the run
away had topped it, she would be
matchwood in two minutes. The
in Ii at the other side was nearly
as steep as the ascent at this, and to
go down it with a DAD under full
head of steam meant pace of ninety
miles an hour into the siding and
against the stop-blocks at the bot
tom.
told you" shouted the driver,
excite ly, as they sIgnte the run
away half rp the bank before them.
but Munro did not hear him. He
was already at the smoke box of the
/ rock ng, reehng engine, having run
along It's boiler holding on by the
RAJ
STEADY, sir, steady We're nto
her" and indeed, they struck the
runaway with the smart shock of a
M Id coll sion.
: The river hurried after Munro,
and gave him a steadyin1 hand across
the TOUCHING bu ers If the engine
and train; and then, as Munro put
the brake ha d on in the guards van,
the DIR yer stopped and managed, with
wonderful GOODNESS and hardness to
hook on the engine TO the runaway.
"neverSe her, BiIlr' he shouted to