Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-12-11

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'.Hezekiah winters said one gentle
man, rising and placing chairs for Miss
Alden and myself, was about 10 tell
OF the Phantom Train which is popn-
larly supposed TO appear every 10Th
OF September
Let us not interrupt his recital"
said Mr.. Ackley as we all exchanged
glances.
You see said the old man, Il was
hostler down to Cohos, and I was
tendin' TO my duties, when into the
stable comes young man, genteel but
sorter dissipated Iookin'. and with
somethln' In his eye that I didn't like
the looks Of
They tell me at the house that
can't get to Dixville tonight. but I'll go
il the devil win help me, and believe
he will
They say be helps his own says
/, perliteIy, but he didn't seem to mind
what said
lyon see,' says he, there's young
lady with me. an her mother is very
sick: If we can get through the Notch
tonight maybe she will see her mother
before she dies. We've got TO go an we
win co.
but there amt no train and there
amt no team that goes this time err
night says /, and turned round to
card one er the bosses and when look
ed round he want there. / was sur
prised. because you see. the stable doors
opened and shut terrible hard and
squeaked on their hinges.
We'll, he was gone. Vanished like.
went up to the house an the cook an
the chamber maid was taIkin' about
lady in the parIor.
She's handsome as drawn pic
ture.' says Mary. and her feller is
handsome, too. They're a runaway
couple. b'Ieve'
Handsome said the cook, He's
too wicked looIzin' to be handsomey
81 wish could see her. says /: for
you see pitied the girl If she was go
ing to run on with that man.
well, come with me- says Mary.
I guess you can get look at her, for
/ am jest a goin' to ask IL she wants
anything
Il followed Mary as fur as the par
Tor door, but in minute she comes out
lookin' scared. She amt there says
she.
Wall, ladies and gentlemen, no one
ever set eyes on them after that. but
strange sights and strange sounds was
heard that night by more'n one. Miss
Higgins, the milliner, was walked by
noise like a train passin' her win
der, and Dick Henderson was run OYER
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 hartl
him
But old Mr.. Fellows is the soberest
man you ever saw, and he heard train
a tootin' and bellerin' that night, like
all possessed. / heered him tell ont
down to the store. He thought the day
of Judgment had come And the Wild
der Storm, mother in Israel, If there
ever was one, says she was a comm
from 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 mover
thought of there bein' no track for the
car till she got home and then she said
she shook like leaf, and she remsm-
bered that the smoke had a dreadful
curious smell.
"Just a year from that night hap
pened to be camped out in DixvilIe
woods, and long towards midnight, 1
saw passin' high up on the peakid
rocks a train tearin' along at ter
rible rate. 1t was all lit up, but there
a want only the ingine and one car.
$ Twas too fur OF to see inter the win
: dows. but knew ii was the same train.
2 That Teller was a tendin' of the ingine,
r and the pretty girl was cryin' inside
q / was sure ont, fur when a man calls
r on the devil as he did, he's sure to git
i help, and he's pretty sure to git more'n
he wants ont.
e wall. the next year me and Jim
Gallagher thought we'd git higher. IL we
i could, an so we set out to climb the
II rocks, long in the afternoon. but sure's
your born, we never got no higher,
IS though we elm an clim' When night
v came, we was in different place, but
:. no higher. BY an by the train came
n tearin' along. 1t looked wickeder this
= time. The ingine seemed possessed. an
It belched an blowed an quivered, and
d throwd fire, and this time / could just
make out the figger of man walkin
on the car. looked round at Jim an
70 he laid on the ground rollin' an twist
Or in as though he was in a fit. / SHOOK
It him pretty rough an he set UP and
/ gasped.
re ""'Wall. XII says he. I never believ-
ed nothin' before that you ever see it
D. but that's phantom train, sure 'nough
a. Where's it goin' to-
:, "Sure's the world. never thought OF
d, that, but Jim's readin' Teller, you
S, see At the rate that train travelled II
could go round the world pretty quick
I'd or down to Chiny, and round t'othel
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