The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-12
The FIELD0F ADVENTURE.
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND Dan
ING DEEDS ON LAID AND SEA.
a Girl DitcheS O Runaway Train
Strange Rescue at Sea-tmpris-
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Strange Hescue at Sea-impfls.
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y PEAKING Of experiences on
~ the railroad" said g. New York
y travelling man to WASHINGTON
Star writer, 81 had a slight
scrape one time on mountain road IN
Tennessee that may be worth the hear
ing. We were coming down &
long grade OF ten miles in q mixed
train. That is, We had gondo!a
loaded with ties as the end Cal.
with our Two passenger coaches
e2d baggage car, and should say We
we're making about twenty miles en-
hour on track that would be treat.
ing US very kindly if it didn't sling US
into eternity if We dared to add five
miles an hour to our speed, when /
Lsppened to look ont OF the rear dcor
and saw q wild train Of loaded coal
cars swinging down after US. They
had evidently started 81 z t;pple which
We had passed only few minutes be-
fore. and when ! saw them they were
just about under headway.
CAT least, they were going so fast
tbst they distanced the men On the
ground, who made run 10 get on and
stop further fight. 7 made wild
rush for the conductor, but before I
reached him he had ordered the en-
eineer to let ont his engine fo. al she
was worth, and in this way keep ahead
0; our chasers. Fortunately We had
DO women aboard, and tho men could
be kent in better control, though il
was all We could do 10 keep then from
jumping of.
'sIt was only short time until We
began to see that our salvation lay n
tbs pursuing train flying the track,
becasse We had reached our limit, and
our train WAS swaying and tossing 50
that everybody was scared out OF his
wits. l know I was, aud I just sat in
ny seat and held on, waiting and lis
tening to the thunder Of the train be-
hind US, which was not five hundred
yards away. md gaining every sec.
ond. It was far heavier chan ours,
and knew that il anybody went oG
the track it wasn't going to be the coal
train. I sad g moment ago We had no
women aboard. ] meant We lad mons
to speak Of.
ssThere was one, but she was E
bomely mountain girl, who didn't
seem to know anything, end becars=
she sat quiet in the corner and didn't
scream, we thought she didn't amount
to eccush to count. I was looking at
her in dazed kind OF a way, when al
os g sudden she lit out OF her seat as
il she had been shot out OF it, and.
knocking everybody out c. the way,
she dashed out Of the rear door before
anybody could touch her, saa we
ttoughv she had Jumped of, but she
hadn't. She jumped for tbs open car:
hanging on like eat, until she got to
the far end of it, ard in second she
vas tunbling those ties Of at the rate
Of dozen second.
ssrhey would hit the track ara
bounce every which va!, but she kept
piling them of, the coal train getting
closer every second, and At last
couple of them stuck up in cattle
guard, and the next thing We knew
there WAS G. terrific crash, rails ard
ties and tracks aud eoal cars flew, ana
the coal train rolled over itself and
v~nt down tie hil! in y heap. B.
George, as that girl stood there in her
plain calico dress and her old sunbon-
u4s and watched that train pile up at
her feet, I thought that Joan Of Arc,
Cleopatra, Queen Eiizabajh, Grace
Darling and the lot OF them weren't
patching to he-, aud, as far as we were
concerned, they weren't.
s:She had saved our train and our
lives. aud Ne TOOK her on With US il
triumph. Then We made up purse
for her big enough to buy farm with,
and I'll bet she's got moro good
clothes and jeweiry and books and
trinkets and things than an7 girl in
the mountains, for we never forget
he-. She doesn't quite appreciate
sore OF the fine things she has, but
what do We care for that; We appreci.
ate ker just the same," and tbs Star
man could scarcely refrain from ris-
ing and giving whoop or :wo for the
mountain iassie Of Tennessee.
Strange Rescue at Sea-
The American schooner STIR Of toe