Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-06-26

We had got her upt over 80
miles an hour We wer living ana
tho old lady went lcap..lg along like q
greyhound. It's laundering hard work,
let mo tell you, is firing on IL Job like that
You'd hardly believe how the couls are
gohbled up before you've hardly rot them
into the furnace
And MI engineer wants just two pairs
Of eyes and three hands, besides cool
brain, to look after his work, let ,ne tell
you. 1t looks easy enough to stand there
ana hung ON to II lever and just keep your
eyes open for signals, but an engine wants
Just rs much hunoring us IL race horse.
and the quicker you go tho moro she
wants watching. ....... n ..
Well, jack had just started the whistle
In tho usual way us We ran into n tunnel
two miles long when dreadful thing
happened. The connecting rod on tho
right sldo of the engine broke, and Just
heard Jack give one terrific yell us no say
it lily up and inward, when something
seemed to come down upon mo like 10 900
tons of pain and bluckncss and Iknew
no more about it. l never heard exactly
how it happened, but Jack suid that every
thing seemed to go to pieces in front and
around him, and he lost his senses too.
lie woke up prcscntly-it could only
nave been Il second or two--in awful ac
ony, burned aud sc;.ldetl and almost blind
TO nnu himself lying on tho tender, with
tho flesh nll peeled on his hands. And
then he remembered how tho engine was
rushing away to certain smash if he
couidn t manage to get to tho vulyo and
shut off steam
fic said nftcrward that no could sec the
Whole OF tho people i'll the carriages like
rs IN IL mental photograph, laughing and
chatting ana carrying on, unconscious of
the danger in front of them, and especially
he thought of the superintendent little
yellow haired baby and his good pntur,,l
wife. cuddling up in each other arms ms
we had seen them just before we started.
How he did it he never could tell, for
besides tho rest Of the damage one OF his
legs was badly broken, but he crslwlcd
down from the top of the Goals, right into
I thch llnding steam that kept on escaping
from tho 'Eye2Len gauge and shut Off tho
+ steam and wount;; is sSy the brake. There
vas no Westingh onse then, and Al NED
got was the old fashioned style Of thing. 3
When the front guard jumped out to sec
what was tho matter, he found that Jack
had fallen insensible in the six foot way.
AS for mo, they picked me up nearly a
milo back of where the train came to a
stand, and the two of us were taken away
70 the nearest house, while tho guard went
to the next signal box and got them tc
telegraph for help
IL was many weary week before was
able to get about, and poor Jack he lay
between life and death for weeks longer
But no pulled through, and l must say
that all the time we lay sick nobody could
have been kinder than the officials of the
company AS soon us we could 80 they
sent us down to sSeutown and there we
lived like fighting cocks till we were on
the upward grade ngnin.
At last, when we We're Just beginning
to 20 for short walks together and pick up
a BIT, there came Il sudden message that
we were wanted at Il meeting In the com
pany room, and off wo toddled, wonder
| Ing what 1T could be about When we cot
There, the room was nearly full Of folks,
anu there was the chairman of the line
ana tho mayor of the town on the platform
and II whole crowd Of directors and other
swells around them, with our superin-
tendcnt and his wife and daughter AS
soon asW entered there was such o hooray
as you never heard before, and we were
pushed along to the platform and helped
up the steps before we'd time to ask a
question. Then they gave us a seat each
and the chairman of the line he got M 70
speak.
| Well, to cut it short, it turned out there'd
been collection made, and there was a
gold watch and chain for .Jnck on the Ia
bic, and silver ditto for me, and o nice
new silk purse chock full of money for INV
brother and crisp $50 motto for yours
| truly.
Ihca Jack he gets up and rubs the
tears away with his sleeve. and he lifts UP
the child and kisses her. But he wouldn't