The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-12
DhggS & Danger,
Flags and Banners.
Flags and Banners.
Bags & Bangrr
PURATED mr. runaway CARS
For Very Good Reasons the Fat Engineer
Was Unable to Get Away from Them.

| u was dropping 'rmsdown Cataract Hill at a
| twenty Ave mile an hour clip night before last,
said the fat engineer. when Murphy who hap
| pcncd {" glance back along the train as we were
| rounding a turn with the sight on the left side.
| says
| Hey, Fat we're broke in two
Huh! says. rather startled like az Murphy
and hadn't been on good speaking terms ever
since the night told him 10 Jump off AT Glendale.
when he skinned his face and he had steadily
| given me the frosty mitt
| We're broke in two.s ure's live. and, II you
don't believe me. come over and see for yourself
| says Murph. See that light back there about
! half way the length Of the train
| saw IL
| We'll that's in the flag shanty on the righ,
hand side Of the track Now II the train WASH {,
parted how could you see that light on the left
! hand side 81 the track without you had an y ray
| IN your eye to look through the boScars behind
u.s.
| ~ guess you're right Murphy. and this is a
mighty bad place To be- chased by the hind end
/ too Says J. i wonder how far back 1t is
"Bu, didn't have long 10 wait to find that out
for IN moment the light was blotied from sigh t
by the high boNcars in the end and could
see the green lights on the markers Of the cabonsc
as they sailed "ut from behind little knoll
DOLLY Peters" says. there they come only
about ten car lengths behind us and coming to
beat the band See the tail liz h ON the ca boose
i give tw" jumps and was over on my side
aud pulled her wide open. give three long blasts
Of the whistle the train parted signal. and then
W. started down that hill Ia beat the band. Muir
ply sat looknr behind with his eyes on the tail
lights ~ the cabouSe
coming like the odd boy himself and gaining
on us al every lick. he hullers over u me
See body out on topyet'
Nope
|\G; darn EN-, I says / s'pose the hull hit and
behind the train ur else playing whiskey poker
I'm hanged u don reppr, en- some day for sleep
ing on duty
Then gave three more blasts Of the whistle
Murphy had t." get down from h = scat now and be
Ein slnn.nlns c"ni mt thc frcboS, as ! had been
hhmmeflng her :" all fired hard that the lre was
gong out 81 the stack in chunks AS big as your
! head would occasionally look back, and when
side | could see the lights in u little Italian box
car settlement on the left hand side Of the track
through that open space and then after about ten
ear lengths they would he blnttcd out by this
could tell tina; the hind end was about ten "a
lengths behind rs and making Just as good time
Them fellows in tina, hughousc on the rear
". said To Murphy Then some one il get fred
= kept up t"otlng on the whistle and finally
looked back and saw man coming over the top o:
the train II was 81 dark cuuldnt see the iellcr
hut could trace him by his lantern He was
ahead # the break and was sprnung toward the
I
life II me tell how he got on the head end but
kept feeding 1t I" her for dear life and that hind
end sui seemed Ia keep going as fast We did
blmehN the man coming over the top Of the train
reached the tank all out oi breath partly from
swearing and partly from running so fast II
proved H. be- Kane the conductor
Wv ell he says when he got his speech yhs, in
thunder ~ the matter with YOU
"'Wc,Ic broke in two, says Where you
been Sleeping IN one 81 the boxCars" The
hind ends been chasing us for the last Ave miles
down this hill
You're another says he because | lust
walked over the top of the train all the way from
the CahnSc Ia the engine
We were dancing around another curve lust
then and pointed back
'l.""k back there, will you. and kindly tell me-
II the trains oil together. how | can look back
and see lights ON the other side of the track through
that open space
He locked back
cars Never heard ~ en- before have yuI,r'
We'll say, II anybody ever felt like a Nat car,
| did " '' ''''