The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14

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for more. Once ne met the landlord OF the
MOTEL coming back with his buggy nl-ec
with food. they looked az each ether Ile
man who was walking glanced at the man
~ no was riding. Wlat was death and aeE-
truction 10 one section and Wla- had
crippled railroad was an Overlooking
cofnucopia for these two men. although
the situation caused them 10 hustle
Finally the travellers were fed. ii was
struggle, but they had made it, They re-
turned TO the telegraph office and still
there were 10 tidinss. The division super
lhlendeHt OF the road knew nothing That
IS. be said nothing The passengers di-
! Fid6d into groups, some going about town.
some walking on the track and some back
70 the coaches. The various porters OF the
sleepers gathered under the water tank
ald related experiences some OF the tray
eIeTs sat in front OF the hotel, on the We
&5 51i, waning IoE Qlhier.
Inere were two men who took posses
son 81 a baggage truck on the platform.
ana they were soon surrounded by others.
natives of the town. The two men had
some walnut shells and some dice. They
put down the shells and manipulated them
QeNlerOusly. But somehow there We're no
biters- The old game did not work. 1t
Is a mystery where these two men came
sucH an occasion Ihe greater the calam-
lty the holder these men become.
Al noon tnere was another gathering
ABOUT the MOTEL There was some excite
ment, TOO. The rumOr had gotten out
Inal there was q regular baseball team on
the train, and that il had come to the ho-
not much of town for bicycles. There
are only few in the place, but everybody
every nine in action is kept IN OelWein.
And when II was noised about that reg
ular nine was at the hotel on its way TO
Indianapolis Wnen II could get there, the
town came down to look at IL. Men and
boys gathered around the nine which had
all the chairs Of the hotel, and We're hold
lh5 tnem down on the VCranda. They
talked ball for the edificatiOn Of the
small boy, who Sazed and listened with
opeq mouth II was the first real, live or
Bdnlzed baseball team that had ever
struck Oelwein If there had been no cy-
clone there had been a ball nine, and the
chances are, barring the dsa ster of death.
Oe.wein did not regret the cyclone.
Three of the real live nine got out in the
street ana pitched ball for exercise. The
crowd of citizens stood and watched i'm
rapt wonder. If q circus procession had
passed by at that moment no one would
nave looked a. IL. The proprietor of the
motel came 20 the door in his shirt sleeves
ana said lit" was ready. The baseball
nine got i'm first, and the breakfast scenes
We're repeated Mephisto on the corner
was again on his steps.
For a while the base ball population Of
Oeiwein forgot the cyclone and talked
while the real nine' were al dinner. the
OelWein nine got out in the street and
gave an exhibition of its ability. 1t was
only q pitching game. however with an
occasional bat. The nine had a new reg
ulaton ball. After some exercise the man
with a bat, one Of the favOrites. hit the
ball an awful swipe and knocked it out
OF sight He was a regular Casey. The
DalI tell some where in the weeds, and the
cry of Lost BALI went up. A number of
QUEENS turned out and hunted for it, but
1t was not recovered.
Meanwhile the real live nine had fed and
came OUT. laey affected a lofty indif-
ference for the presence of the Oelwein
nine. and blasphemed about the imDrob-
ability of reaching Indianapolis in time
for Tuesdays game. The cyclone was
forgotten except as 1t stood in the way of
the tarrying nine
The telegraph office had a glimmer of
Imormauon IL was given out that the
train would not move until morning and
the hotel and restaurants prepared for
another feast. Meantime a train was
made up to so west on road which had
had no cyclone. and there was one chance
IN forty that it might connect with some
train going east. The base ball nine-the
real one-boarded that train and left Gel
vein. It was sad blow to the town.
The local nine, unable to find their ball,
| left the street.
Darkness fell upon Oelwein. Likewise.
silence, for awhile. Then there was a
noise up the street, which was finally
| construed as being music. The landlord
said il was the Oelwein silver cornet band,
and that the music was a complimentary
tender on the part OF the band TO the
strangers VINO We're side tracked on ac-
count Of the cyclone. 1t was a sOlacing
idea, but the cold fact came out and stag
sered the dream. 1t was the bands night
| TO practise.
The travellers sought their coaches and
! hunks for the night. At IL o'clock that
| night a man having authority passed
! through the coaches and Informed the
| passengers that there was no probability
| that the train could get out to go east
| Tor two days The company had, there
| fore, concluded TO check back all who
! wished to return TO St Paul And all,
! save an Englishman, who had been saying
! all day that he wanted TO see q cy-
| clone, agreed to go back. Then the man
/ in authority told them all to so to sleep,
/ and they did. At o'clock in the morn
/ ing he returned and aroused every one
! with the information that those who
! wanted to return TO St. Paul would have
/ to get up and take another train. There
/ was some emphatic talk, but all concluded
/ to do 1t, including the Englishman, who
| said it was his bloody, bloomin' luck"
| The return train Dnlled ont AT 2.iG a
| m. and arrived in st. Paul at a. m
! There they learned the extent of the
! cyclone. There they came in contact with
| the world once more. But they also
! learned that few of the roads running out
/ of ST. Paul We're running trains to Chi
! cage on time. The agent Of one line said
| he would get the people into Chicago
! some time. That was all he could prom
1t takes a cyclone to bring out the
/ resources of railroads. The man who had
/ left ST. Paul Sunday night for Chicago
and had been turned back from Oelwein
/ started again tuesday night. Wednesday
| he aWoke somewhere in Wisconsin. The
/ conductor said the train was getting to-
! ward Chicago, but that it was going over
! the lines of all the roads IN two states
! to make it. He said wherever taey could
! hire piece of connecting road they did
! H. anu ti4eAt oOli4fti4lltS lLlt Tram was
! going due west in order to make a con-
! nection with some road that would head
| the tram east. The train reached its des-
/ tn1uOn several hours late, but The agent
| at St Paul had kept his word To dc it.
! however the train had travelled over three
/ states and had seen some new country.
1t was a triumph of railroad skill and
! pertinacity. The cyclone may desolate
and kill, but it can't thwart a railroad
| company very long in this age Of the
world.
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