The times., 1897-05-02

firteea miles north OF Rich mond, ft
Jumped the track, and he was terribly hGrt
in the wreck He was taken 90 Richmond,
and IL was a couple of months before lie
was able to work again Then he was
given light work about the Richmond yards
or la Wight runs until he W as thought 10 be
fully recovered About six months after
the wreck in which he received HIS injuries
he began taking regular night runs, and
appeared to be as good an engineer as he
ever was
One night it happened that he was put
on the same train that he was on when hurt.
1t was noticed that he was a little nervous,
but no attention was paid to htm. The
nigttturned out TO he the same kind Of one
as thaton which he had got hurt more than
eight months before. 1t was dark and
dismal and rainy
AS the train reached the point where
the accident occurred the fireman noticed
DICK slack up his engine, and at the same
time he began TO get paler and paler, and
as they rounded the curve where he had
been ditched before, Little wood uttered a
shrek and fell over In a faint The strain
had been too much for him
He was taken to Richmond and was
again taken off his engine; this time for
good, OF course, and was for couple OF
years later doing switch work In the yards
AS an engineer, his first cali had ru-
fned him for life, and he often remarked to
his feIlow-engineers that no amount OF
money could hire bin TO steer an engine
around that curve again after dark, and
he was known to be a man of great nerve,
too.
zFYrr N p H.
ern road, between Washington and Rich
nond, never becomes tired of telling how
he received his first ''caIl" and the lucky
way be pulled through it 1t was back in
the seventies, when work on the railroads
all over the country was extremely flat and
thousands of men were outof work
81 had been an engineer about three
years. said Jerry, telling his story to
your correspondent down at the round
house on Virginia avenue, land, OF eourse,
was one OF the first men laid of. I was
then working for the Pennsylvania road,
running out of Philadelphia westward. /
went around to the different roads, ask
ing for work and through frequent visits
to the Baldwin works, had become quite
wen acquainted with the foreman Of the
locomotive departing ns-
whenever a new engine is shipped to
q Western road reliable man is sent
on the new locomotive to protect it from
tramps and other vandals. 1t happened
that one OF these engines, ordered for
the Denver and Rio Grande road. had Just
been completed, and the foreman put in
a good word for ME, especially as zone
OF the Baldwin people banker after this
Job. You can gamble on it. / jumped at
the chance.
1.-TWO days after being offered the po-
sition the new enginc--and she was a
beauty--was shifted into the middle OF tte
fast Western freight, aud we began our
Western Journey We went over the
Philadelphia and middle divisions all
right, but is was on the P:ttsburg, divis-
ion that my first 'cali'' came off. This
division takes In the Allegheny Aio1n-
tains, and the tough places on 1t almost
eqBal those on .he Rocky Mountains
''The engineer that handled the throttle
on the engine ahead was Billy Duncan,
and knew him WELL both personally and
through reputation. He was fearless
runner, and would never jump from an
engine, no matter how close . place he got
into. Duncan invited me TO ride with him
in the engine, but declined, as had
charge OF that Rio GraDde engine, and
wanted TO see her landed safely at her
destib tion.
$50 ! went back 20 my charge Just a
minute before we passed out Of the Al
toona yards, and In q few minutes had
made myself comfnrtahls with couple
OF hIankets had brought along.
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