Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-06
COOL HEAD AND STEADY NERVE.
How an Engineer Boldly Dashed Over .
Cavc-iu and Saved Hts Train.

How an Engineer Boldly Dashed Over y
Cave-in and Saved Hts Train.
Had 1t not been for the cool head
and ready hand of Frederick Titus.
an engineer of Lehigh Valley freight
engine No. $50, says a dispatch from
Wilkesbarrc, Pa, to the New York
Tribune, himself, his crew of six
men, the engine and four freight
cars would now be lying at the bot
tom of an old minc.hole. Titus this
morning found himself In a predica-
ment SO terrible that, we're he to ex
perience 1t again, he says he is afraid
his nerve would fail. Titus was nj
the lever of the big engine as She
ratified down the heavy grade on u
long siding running towards Miners
Mills, q small town near here. He
was pulling four empty freight cars.
and going at q speed of twenty milGs
an hour. The track was wet from
an early rain, and the big drive
wheels OF the engine slipped on the
rails. Titus kept a sharp lookout
ahead for danger, and stood ready 10
whistle down brakes at any moment
suddenly he glanced down the track.
his attention was attracted to dis
turbauce in the road bed, only "a few
hundred feet ahead. lie was sur.
prised to see large holes appear, and
Us he looked the entire surfa, @ OF "A
distance of several feet sank out OF
sight, and the edge on each side OF
the hole continued to crumbic. lie
Immediately realized what had hap
pcned. The place was honey-comted
by old mine workings. and one Of the
gangways, hundreds Of feet below,
had fallen In, taking down the sur
face with It. The rails and lies
alone remained straight and SYM
III trical, and the hole was AL the
time growing larger
In less time than 1t takes to write
one of these lines. al, this passed.
tn Ough the. mind of the kengi
and as II did he acted, intuitively,
perhaps, for h, said aftcrward he had
no time to think. Grasping tho
throttle. he threw II open, puttinH
ON full head of steam, at the same
time opening the sand tube 10 give
the wheels firm hold. Tho big en-.
gine sprang forward like q Splinter.
and, gaining speed with every inch
Of advan Q, shot ross the chasIn
swiftly and safely, but none too soon.
for barely had the first car cleared
the edge when the rails ana ties fell
with u crash into the big hole, After
the train had been brought TO u
standstill, the crew hurried back to-
the scene. The hole by this time
was fully thirty feet across ana the
bottom could not Dc seen. Titus SAID
he knew there was not room on the
down grade to stop the tram heiore
II re 4, he'd the cavern and he felt the
only safety was In Swimming acr osS..
1.-THE Lord VIII Provide.
"Any knowledge or exper ence
which stirs our inner nature TO iis
do ,,ths, which brOadens our outlook
beyond the narrow circles OF cur own
personal interests, or which touches,
our hearts to finer issues, makes rs
In every important sense better men
and women; and whatever sanctinGss
Us, however IL may temporarily sad
den US, fits US for ascent into lanes
CT higher and ipurer JOY. Events.
experience, circumstances, are all
transitOry; their character abidcs
forever. And IL IL uDon char-
acter that all true blessedncss DC
ponds, whether Of men or angels. Ths
very purpose for which the universe
exists IL to arouse and enlarge mans
capacity for holiness that he may
thereby become partaker In ever in
creasing measure Of the Infinite holl-
ness and Olessedness OF God. Every.
thing that is, everything that ever
happened or ever will happen, WINS
foreordained to call forth the capaes-
ties and powers that l.e EMBODIED in
mans nature. No conflict with DIM
Guilty or adverse conditions Of exist.
ence would mean no Joy OF pcace.
Our own profound conviction Is that
even those calamities which most
appall us, II VIC could comprehend In
its fuilness their relation to the d.
vine economy OF the universe--that
10 to say, II we could trace out ALI
their remote equences through,
the ages Of eternity-wOuld seem 70
have been blessings In disgu Tina
severity Of God j. the perfection III
His goodness; not the impulse. hnt
the wisdom OF u Fathers mind.
Let w never doubt that, In His own
good time and Ills own hest way.
He transmutcs everything which We
Call evil into some form OF good. All
present misery Is future happiness In
the making, aud we may rest assn! cd
that Gods delay 10 the making Is 40.
complishing some hidden purposes uf
love which we are not yet able TO un-
derstanL. Verify He dOeth all things
we'll. alike In Heaven and uppn
earth,n