The Lamar register., 1897-11-13

, ever set eyes on them a1ter tnat, puf
strange sights and strange sounds was
heard that night by Tnore'n one. Miss
Higgins, the miliiner, was walked by
noise like a train passin' her win
der. and Dick Henderson was run over
by train and had his leg broke. There
want no track, mind you. where they
found him, and good many folks said
Dick was too drunk to know what hurt
him.
But old Mr.. Fellows is the soberest
man you ever saw, and he heard train
tootin' and bellerin' that night. like
all possessed I heered him tell ont
down to the store. He thought the day
OF judgment had come. And the Wild
der Storm. a mother in Israel. II there
ever was one, says she was a comm
from a sick neighbor's and saw right
before her an ingine. but she didn't see
no one else till the car passed her. and
then, sittin' by the winder that was
all lit up, she saw beautiful young
lady and she was a cryin'.
"She felt SO sorry for her, the Wild
der Storm did, that she says she never
thought of there bein' no track for the
car till she got home and then she said
she shook like a leaf, and she remem-
hered that the smoke had dreadful
curious smell.
Just a year from that night / hap
pened to be eamped out in Dixville
woods. and long towards midnight. l
saw passin' high up on the peakid
rocks train tearin' along at a ter
| rible rate 1t was all lit up, but there
want only the ingine and one car.
Twas too fur of to see inter the win
dows. but knew II was the same train.
That feller was tendin' of the ingine.
and the pretty girl was cryin' inside.
/ was sure ont. fur when man calls
on the devil as he did. he's sure to git
help, and he's pretty sure to git more'n
he wants ont.
Wall. the next year me and Jim
Gallagher though, we'd git higher. II we
could. an so we set out to climb the
rocks. long in the afternoon, but sure's
your born. We never got no higher.
though We elm an elm When nigh,
came. we was in a different place, bu.
no higher. BY an by the train camu
| tearin' along Il looked wickeder this
| time. The ingine seemed possessed. an
beIched an hlowed an qulvered. and
1 tHTONu uTP, anu ltll5 tllut q CDhlu JUST
make out the figger of man walkin'
on the car. / looked round at Jim an
he laid on the ground rollin' an twist
in as though he was in fit, | shook
him pretty rough an he set up and
gasped.
"''wall. Ki.' says he. L never bellev-
ed nothin' before that you ever see 1t,
but that's phantom train. sure 'nough.
Where's 1t goln' tor
"Sure's the world. | never thought OF
that. but Jim's a readin' feller, you
see AT the rate that train travelled 1t
could go round the world pretty quick.
or down to Chlny. and round t'other
way. for 1t don't need no rails, you see.
But who was the feller an who was the
girl. an was 1t a lie about her sick
mother7 I've hggered on 1t pretty
stiddy. but / don't git no higher the
truth.
wall, two or three years after
tall. melancholy man come to the Phe-
MIX TO inquire after his daughter; said
he'd tracked her so fur: said he sup
posed she'd gone OF with stranger to
him. His daughter got acquainted with
him somewhere to school Course no
one could tell anything about her. and
there want no one could bear to tell
him the turrible stories goin' bout the
phantom train. so he went back to
Canady."