The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-09
IT RUNS OSoE, 4 YEAR.
a Ghost Train That Many Have Heard. Hut
None Has Ever seen.

From the Washington Evening Star.
Speaking OF things" remarked a Philadel-
phia drummer. Il had q strange thing happen
to me about a month ago in Georgia. 1t didn't
exactly happen to me, either, but 1t was in my
hearing. l. had attempted to drive across coun-
try to catch a train at a station which I could
not have reached otherwise, except by n long
and uresome detDGr over a miserable piece or
road, and when a railroad in Georgia Is Dad it
Is bad with any sort OF an adjective for elnphe;-
sis you choose. 1t wa twelve miles and through
q mountain gap. and as It was nearly dark
when when tb s'l lGrdik ! wSsp %hs SP p 1Sl s i s,Iask i0 a r ~q9
fair two-story house that, looked like II might
have been q summer hotel once upon n time.
Il asked the man who responded to my cal!
how far 1t was TO tho railroad. and be told ne
ten miles, and l had %'Htter light and sta al
and meat and a drink OF moons.tine I went To
bed, tired enough to have Sslcpt on a picket
fence. It was then II c o,cioG SEcn ana my aoGut Two
by hearing a train whistle appare ATTY a mile or
less away, and then rumble along, coming
and | heard no more. | was too sleepy 10 give
1t much thought, and rolling over l went to
sleep again, wondering why my, host had told
was TO deceive me out OF the price Of a nights
lodging a =. hroo,,.., ru.,,,on.s
the fact to him.. aud he laughed in an uneasy
kind OF a way and assured me that 1t WAS ten
three lines that far after | had driven over to i.
The noise i lad near =. he said, was probably
the wtal blowing down the chimney and bans,
Vent on NY way to the railroad, reaching there
an old Foadocd with the ties and rails still "a
1t in places lay near the wagon road all the way
FIT the station, wLilo waiting for my train,
I got to talking with the station agent who was
2 bright, sharp chap. and lnGidepidiiy ! asked Is
me quick as a wink, and asked iEc the part,cu-
fars, which told him;
night 1t always comes. When, the road vas
frat built hero there was a branch that I'm back
up In that country 10 a place about two or IL 20
resort up there, mineral sE a1n I'd 90 ~ ! w ,Ssr.
the other way. Ten years sHo tonight an ef-
cursion was coming back from there, and just
neer saw an Obstruction on the track that was
going to throw the whole shebang over the banI..
aud whistling down brakes and cutting his
1t on the track. OF course he and his eng. 10
went with IL, and neither of them was ever any
saved. and that was enough for a man TO die for.
becaul there were 700 women and children in
the EXCURSION.
| tho neighborhood had attempted to wreck ttu
train, and 1t spoiled the excursion business.
nine or ten miles of 1t In operation for u fcv'
years longer, but there mover was another pa
s SSnssE train wa. thea e FG 0S that a,' i! p's tS ss mheT nef sss s sn.
other train that ANYBODY ever saw; but there
has been one go over the spot, or rather go to II
and stop, ono night in every year for the past ten
years. I have heard I, and so have the men IN
that house and you, hut no more that l know
OF, because his nearest neighbOr Is three mile
away and nobody ever gets In that neighbor
hood TO stay all night. j suppose 4 would not
have been there If he had not ,asked me as q
friend TO como up on one q the anniversary
nights and hear II, 30 he could talk to mo about
It and advise with me whether to move away
very nearly forgotten all about II, Tor really
the subject hasn't come to my notice in four o.
i've years, and you can wager money / never
went back there to listen 10 1t any more. II
be blamed II 1 couldn't see that engineer ant
his engine whirling TO destruction the night
stayed there, because l knew What to eXpec
and sat up to wait for 1t with every nerve at IT.
highest tension. Darn queer kind OF q ghost
amt itf'
drummer ''and when ! suggested to him tina
/ might perhaps toll The story to some one els
laughed and said that was just the sAno n
keeping II a dead secret, for nobody IN tia
neighborhood took u newspaper or could rea'
one II he did"