The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-15

AZ the engine slowed under the pressure o.
ne had missed The coupling. Again snsin;
the ar, with the same result.
we were running now At q speed Of sixty
OF, seventy miles an hour, and when you con
slider that the track on the hill is the crooked
deep r%ayines and cahons and leading along
ger OF the run. Down the hill we Numbered.
ewinGing through Coop cuts and around sharp
her springs us II struggling in M effort 20 dash
EhSGrseI into one OF the gorges lining the track.
OF, dust through which at times j caught
Rlimpses OF the, cars. pitching and tossing like
some dismasted vessel in a storm et sea. |
for their doing so-ana ditch the locomotive.
but we must take the chances so long as there
was q possibility Of %stopping the runaways
sou Sifinia f SSt f fsiiea y each srl tims to / PS SiS n sss
Know until all was oyer the difficulties the Are
in f. socket that IA 'f t had Il d0E 70 Se rS Tss Il six iSO ST
link was being put in place. This required two
hands. and as the fireman could not maintain
using nsi Sos on ! hama am me &c s NYini g f9 tSs GnSd without Ss
S Sfn not get the link in place and drop tho
by this time We we're within three miles OF
buckley. AS the locomotive and tleeting cars
dashed across a trestle 100 feet high ] caught
in the valley surrounded BY a network Of rails.
l. opened the whistle and kept II shrieking
nn We were within 200 yards of Buckley. but
as we flashed, past the telegraph office the
white face of the operator, his eyes wide open
WITH alarm and horror, appeared at the win
dow for the fraction OF an instant.
LONG AS sr we q da tSs q pas past h The iie negEntnpd !, ol1ce the the
j thanked God that the Rea next BLOCK was still il
open and that we, had another chance for life.
we had eight miles OF clear track and might
ever, was In catching the runaway cars. as
Mere No 2 T vas ne ne telegraph office at csmpton and
Ing toward us as fast as three big engines
cogg ND send her and without a stop ahead.
rattle OF c~lanktng rails. and swung around the
point Of the mountain and down the winding
through cuts-the old los jolted us along at
me rate OF seventy or eighty miles an hour.
Buckley we were within sight OF Campton. nest
ling below us in the valley. Hurd had been ST.
l s5s , sSfem nj Eil for ho Sas and whether vi the IN, 10
and been ground to pieces i did not know. /
realized now that there wa, no longer a posi-
and what my hope was, II l had any at all. / do
not know; there was only a mad determine
structlon to the end and die with the rest.
and the thought that il four Or i've score
SAhh WHY w 4 q NiAStsh ly
carelessness l would die with them.
AS TIE roofs of Campton came into view
miles below. lay the half-deserted mlning
now | could see the rough board sta
ton. the red and white switch targets and the
the abandoned test shafts. Then l distin-
euished a form on the station platform. a
sunbonpet.. Even at that distance l could see
was toward me, but I knew her to be Nettie
BlSCOm. the uauClter OF the Ole-leRged flag
man; 1t was ten seconds. perhaps. before the
girl heard the whistle then she turned slowly.
an instant toward us and with, a quick
sprlng was at a switch stand and had thrown
the lever. and the white of the target turned
to, red-and No. IL and her freight were safe.
Il quickly brought the engine TO a stop as
the two cars turned into the sidinE-a safety
spur built for Just such a purpose as this-and
moved up a steep incline toward q dozen stout
forced by a pile of rocks. to act as a bumper
for runaway cars.
AS the old los came to a stop I staggered
the footboard. Said he. Bill. p What he
intended to say never learned. as his words
ISg o dr fSe rails o{ kn Sa esP ; of 3er t head hiItsd a fhs
smokestack and, blew the cab into splinters.
building in the town was blown down.
was practically deserted that there weren't
any number OF people killed.
Those cars we had chased for thirty miles
hey crashed into the ~deadwood at the end of
the safety spur the whole thing exploded.
NTH n he we seven sEeSu coaches tne q ih e.rnoswTSfeeSr k nee exc e4cn ar.
went bowling by. II the dynamite
ears had met the express train. you askH
That's the story. and now have finished
running. am going up to my ranch near
Greeley that the company gave me for chas- |
girl that threw the switch2 She'll be there.
She has been a half ouner IN that ranch
since two months after she saved the train"