Arizona silver belt., 1896-02-15
SHE THOUGHT OF SOMETHING.
4 Mountain Girls Bright Idea That Saved
 the Lives of Passengers.

4 Mountain Girls Bright Idea That Saved
 the Lives of Passengers
 Speaking of experiences on the rail- road" saId New York travellng man, "l had sngnr scrape one t,nie on mountain road m Tennessee that may be worth hearing.
 We were connng down long grade of ten miies m d mixed tram. I nat Ia, we had goudola loaded with ties us the end car, with our two passenger coacncs anu baggage car, anu shoutu say We weIe mahhig about -U niies an hour on d track that wound be tieat'Ae us ,eIy hlnuiy If It didn't snns us niio elern,ly II we dared 10 add h'e m'ies in tuur lu our speed, when happeheu 70 look out oI the rear door ana saw n wau llain oI loaded coai cais swnSng down alter us. They hau eNidrnt'y starteu ul a upple wnIcn We nsia l4i.Sseu ouIy u lew ui,nutes OeioIe, anu when l sa" luem luey were goins so iast 'n''t they u.s,aueru tne men on the stouhd, Who u,aur d run To get on anu stu,' .n.'n iurlneT ntghI. l made w,iu iusn Tor tur Iouuuvtor, but before fvacncu mn h nuu olucIeu the engineer to let oui ms chg dIc Ior al sne wRs N ortn. anu in tnis wuy ke,p anead 0. our chaseis. F-:- tuuaIeIS We mad n ) women aboard, is.d the men could oe kept in better controi, tnougu IL was all We couId do to heep LIem rom JumpIhS oil.
 "lt Was only a snort time until we began 10 see that our salvation lay in the rursu,ng train hying the track, be- cause NC nid reached our Iimit. and our train Was swaymg and tossing 50 that ry0ouy Mas scared out al ms wits. l know Was, anu just sat in my seat anu neld on, waiting anu listening to the thunder of the tram Uen,nd us, which Was not 500 yards away anu gum ing every second. It was lar heavier than ours. and knew that Il any body went oh the track it wasn't going to be lnv yUai tram. | saId Il mulnent ago We mad no women aboard. l meant we had nODr to speak of.
 "InvIe was one, but she was q homely noun U.,n sIri, who didn't seem to know anA I...s, ,.uu because she sat quiet in the cOrDeI aud didn't scream we thought snc u.uu amount 10 enougn To count. Was looking at her in a a'i1cd kind of wuy wuvu all of sudden she lit out O her seat as if she had been shot out of it. and, Knocking everybody out of the way, snr dashed out of the rear door before amp body could touch her, and we tnuus.G she had jumped oil. but she hadu |. Aue jumped for the open car, hanging on like eat, untIl sne got to the ial end of 1t, and in second she was lunIUnug lnOSe ties oil at the rate of q dozen second.
 "Inry "ouid hit the track and bounce every wnIch way, but she kept piling them ou. the coal train getting closer every second. and at Inst couple of them sIuck up m n cattle guard. and tLe next thing we knew there was ter rife crasn. rails and ties and tracks and coal new and the coal tram rolled over itself anu went down the hill In a heap. By George. as that girl stood there in Ter ptaun caiico dress and her old sun bonnet aI'd watched that train pile up her feet, thought that Joan of Arc. Cleopatra. Queen Elizabeth, Grace Dar- ling and the lot of them weren't q patch ing to her. and, as tar as we were con cernrd. they weren't.
 'Shc had saved our train and our lives. and we took her on with us in triumph. Then we made up purse for her big enough to buy farm with. and I'll bet snes got more good clothes. and jewell " und books, and trinkcts aud things than any gIrl in the mountains, for we never foI get her. She doesn't quitc app precate some of the fine things she Las. but what do we care for that? Ne appreciate her just the same."- Wash ingtoD Star.