The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1896-07-23

'e Der e, ~tadng the uhann A. u4d 'h
hrsko before lssvtas the boz
a A dog taa drove Of hoss under lb
% horses feet and 10 ath the sptut,d "a
mails wtre tcshes down The ridge
some one al Nevada Cttw happened :,
be fcsuaipe The ROAD through deId gIas
aud suddenly ,houted The stage is con
e ing hell beat for lection and DIN aint OF
the box,
O Tue news spread through the taun lk,
Wild Are. snd 10 40 Incredibly short tim,
! the Shole town turned ont aud all wbt
bad field glasses we're suItou,ly watching
the swaying stage in its mad clrecr along
the rise toward the steep grade leading
] into town, II was still some faur mile
! distant
} The excitement was intense. Every one
knew that MaIhewson, helpless aud veai
. 'ay inside at the mercy Of the four blood
ed anmsIs The wheelep especially were
/ a splendid pair Of metllesoms stations,
and the leaders carefully selected No
power on earth could haya stopped them
oa that ridge Down the erade they plun
ged The speed was terrific. Strong men
turned away 10 horror eIpectin3 from mo
meut to moment that the stage would so
crashing into tho canyon below.
Halt the distance toward town had been
. ! ,rtlt a.,
broke from the watching multitude. The
stamp the bowldetl Three miles from
town the stage road led between a stump
on the lower side aud bowlder on the
upper side Of the grade.
With long plunglng stri les the animals
approached this danger point.
The crowd WIS too houGei to shout, |
Oaiy a shill'd Rroan, more eloquent than
words could have been hoard.
few rods more and God help poor
Msthewson, revently murmured etizlled |
miner, as the tears flowed down his wriuk
led face. Many hard looking but ten
der hearted man around hlm murmured,
Amen.
Gaming iuofease momentum ut every
bound, the stage ran into a cloud OF dust
Just before reaching the stump aud boul
der. Awed, pallid. upturned faces gs2ed
with fascinated intentness at that little
cloud Of dust,
They've done It, whispered a man in
front, with eyes still lled to his glass.
With only fourteen inches to spare on
either side the danger was not yet over.
The steepest and rouRtest part of the
road was yet TO come,
As the stage reached town the people
gave way on either side, none dreaming Of
trying to stop the foam covered stations
in their wild run.
Along Coyote at. they whirled, then ,
making fat iron turn entered Main still
on they dashed, wheeling into Com mer
cisl, then up into Pine and still at full
speed to Bread, heading for the destina
tion OF the stage 10 front Of the Nation =,
al or Persons Hotel. in the middle Of ,
The blook. !;
Arthur Hagsdron, the owner OF the
stage line, WAS standing, pale with excite !
nent, close to where the stage usually rein
ID in. None can ever know how IL came
about. but at the sight OF the familiar fig
are the four intelligent stations slowed
10 aud came to q stop within q foot Of +,
y here they would have been driven bad
Din been on the box, :,
Stepping up to the head horse, HagSr =,
Ion stroked bis wet neck and said, No 81
lie fellow, you've done yonr last days :,
work. I,
Mathewsou was unhurt and feebIy thank
ID friends and acquaintancts who crowd
d around the stage to congratulate him =,
u his miraculous escepe, T.;
Such Is the record OF one OF the widest :,
tsge rides ever taken by man. -,
Oue Of the wheelers on this stage was =.
be stallion 81 Clair, the sire OF Senator
tsmiCrd's famous Oecidept. II is not ,
enerally known that the late Senator ,,
pserves much Of the credit Of helping to .,
erfect the instantaneous process IN photo
rapby, -
Oecident was said to have the finest &C
on OF any troiter Of bis day, and Stan 90
,rd spent two years aud 500, 600 before .,
e finally succeeded in obtaining a satis -,
ctoy photograph Of Ocoident at bis
ret by means of the instantaneous pro a.
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