Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-08-31
SAVED THE TRAIN.


Kane Creek was a railroad crossing OF
the S. and G. G. railroad, about two mile
from the division terminal at Mercer.
was in the midst of n scrubby pine forest
with a sandy road crooking out from TIN
trees on one side and into the trees on tn,
other. There were only two or three houses
little general store with porch like thu
visor Of military cap and a schoolhouse
all arranged in scraggly row along thu
railroad track. The dusty red depot was
an oasis in the midst of cinder desert
with great many telegraph wires singing
overhead.
A dozen trains whirled through Kane
Greek every day with only q Shrek Of
greeting and whipping wake of fine
sand. Only two of them paid the slightest
attention to the girl in blue bingham
dress who stood in the little observation
window One of them was the way freight
which stopped at Kane every time il
came along while the conductor handed
the girl bundle of yellow papers and re-
ceived another like 1t in return. The Other
was the night express, westward bound
from St. Paul, and running at 40 miles
aaus i ,.ith ~ H mao spunola ~ ~
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nne,1, w 49, 49, 80 /. ~ ~ s;nt;f Ian.
the girl in the bingham dress often thought
of the great train as a powerful and Zero
cious beast snorting and roaring westward
on a race with the sun. 1t was beast,
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'isno eApross, VI wnion nor iasner was on
'lneer' was Che heAe Ir"il, uue' Ooulu
'nyeniIs ~ .he inaV'erl nhe ran ouO on
~ ua,k piav,orin 70 see ohaI ler nshes
vere ali III piaoe anu 'nao 'ne swi1ches
we're properly see, 80 thac Cne express
9ouio slip pasG 1he s1atloh wlthou9 an ac-
ioen5. linen she Went pack and called
p Mercer.
Can you get Pinckneyr' she asked.
PlncKney was the STATION which had sent
lpr th6 W0rninO ntgn1fDh tnvctpT10llTlV