Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-21
SOME YARNS TOLD BY ENGINEERS
DRIVERS TELL STORIES OF QUEER
ADVENTURES OK THE ROAD.
WARNED IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY
AN ENGINE STOPPED by a FIN
GER FROM THE HAND OF A
woIAN THE MACHINE HAD
KILLED.


An old engineer who had served his
nnprant,coehtn al, thn eo,n,ar, ,oaas
III.
Heiu'
II was running an engine on the
Nashville and Chattanooga road nj tho
Tim, .,a 49,, 10, ~. 80. ~, -, !,
- ~ We iei' '"' '"'''' wy AZ
o'clock In the morning. little late.
1t was an awful nisht; the rain fell In
torronts while tho wind moaned and
49,, 80 w "i 'lO''' "'u
wh'stied through the pines along tho
road. When we passed around the
point OF Lookout mountain and l saw
tho groot o,,or,,,,,,,,. rooL ana ,o,rt
V'''""'e'"A 'VNN "'u near
'he oak trees snap as the poughs
crashed into each other felt more
lonely than l ever did before or slnce.
az
you Were acquainted uowh III
'hat region You would know that there
are a good many small mountain
streams crossing that road, and lust
on the other side OF Chrlsty's station
In n long trostie over a hundred feet
high. | always felt glad when we got
over 1t. and that might | was so nervous
that 1 could hardly hold iho lever. Not
u great distance beyond this dangerous
trestle IL "A smaller one. under which n
mountain stream runs,
"Brfore W. reached mia trce,Io no.
came perfectly dumb. pnrnlyzcd with
fear. l reversed the engine and stopped
It, II WINS an unconscious act and
why | did Il / will never know. The
conductor came running through the
train with his lantern.
"'Hello, GeorEel what's the trouble?'
he asked,
"Darncd If know ! shouted baclS.
4 couldn't help IL, and that's all there
Is TO IT,
Losing your nerve. cid man. oh p
Nhc said with sarcastic laugh. Pun
her wide open and let's got ont OF this.
and with muttered obth lie started
beck to the Cnis.
"GiGsping hold ( tho lever tried 10
start ny engine, Tut my land seemed
par5lyzpd, aud couldn't make her
move.
"Bick came tho conductor on the run.
= m'ro a heaut.' he shouted mn M ma
In the cab. WHY don't Won 20 nhe1dg
Wen get baci. un tho time of No. "a.
and then therein be the lingo TO pay
Itu no use, old man. answered
back; there's iunppr Inst ahead. but i
don't know what II Isl
II couldn't see ten foot head nf mo
IN the pitch darkness and rain. hui
something told mo there was danger.
and / wouldn try again TO budrr In.
train.
40 say TINT the conductor vns.mod
hut family Describes II. in fnct no ,yns
about tho mnddcst Individual / ever
saw; hut l maid no nttcrtlon ia him
and grabbing a lnntern. | walked out
ahead of the train. had MOI rome
nifty yards when 1 found Tint tbe
bridge was gone, knocked into the
river by the high water and rubbish
that cnmc rushing down an its crcs,
hurried back nnd told the conductor
and then n crowd of MS wont To 500
the extent of the dnmare. When tho
conductor saw tho rushing waters nnd
realized how he had urged me on mud
the narrow escape the entire train Ind
made. he sat down ON n mo IN thc
side OF the road that Ind boon blown
down by the storm and cried llkn n
child
I'VE were fled nm tberc until ho,,-
light the next morning ma il VIVA
noon before the waters had sufIicieniy
fallen TO permit us TO throw n i,inn.
ornrv bridge ovrr Tho RIM mia ,,nt,r,
down In that countrv rise tn nnnd
height and subslde in n nipht II IL
very seldom / tell This starry ana IA
seems no ridiculous to anyone NOT NO.
ounIntcd with our cv..v-dnv M, ~,
one nus been able Ia RAnlulm IA
mud I can't undorgtnnd IA mVsalf All
/ know is that / was poyericss I'm tho
hands Of some rnt an unrrs1 pn,va,
stronger than I w1au
"Expericnces down I'm TINT count.,
are bound 10 be exciting" smoke mn a
bright-lool<ing man of middle mn
whose face denoted great firmness and
n more Than uatlni intollignnce 81
,yor{ed down thorc FOR n,c vnare ana
''fa'a
drive one TO drink. II might suIt n
plcture paInter. hui "A railroad cpginccr
out OF tho country throurh s,,ners,itIon
at was In 1855 / mad Iust bcen nTo.
NOTED TO n messenger run an thn nan
was n might train crossing tho NOM
Trims. and had the reputation or navn,
having moi with mls,inn
tbe ronpe win Ita dIamni sh,dn,,,, 49,,
zine strike something. / ind moi ace,
anything. although INV bend wns ont
of mo window nj Tho limo nnI + yvo,
looking directly ahead SomeibIng Snr,
awent over INV moe causint, N sa,s,, H.,
not trll whether ia origin was ln,cr,,ni
az eytnrnnI 'e"' ""' ''''V' ''"'
"rhe nos, instant 7 looltod o,or,a 10
Ito hnd inst o,.nncd tbn arat,,s 49, '',' :,
m snmethin,, frr,n tho 49, az H., p,eh
ana eXamlna IL nv mo Ileht az tho No., o"'
6, 10 "rusnism. ~ Lsir,, ,t,,ia,.,