The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-14

water tank for 'im-so ed ave t.
make an extra stop for water, or some
thin or other would lay i'm out two
or three times a week. That KEEP i'm
ustlin' TO git in on time an save is
job.
rOne night e started out in a 'eavy
rainstorm- One O. them kind O. nights
Wen yt dassent keep yer cad inside
an. can't see nothin' with it out The
coal was poor, an though e averaged
ten pound o steam light all the way
e adnt the cart to growl at is fire.
man"
Mighty considerable" remarked Bar
ney.
Jack merely shifted and continued:
All e sed was, Try an keep 'er 'ot,
Billy. for Gods sake; I'm losin' time
every minute, an if l don't ketch it up
agin on the flats. We'll go pokin' in
ilNe or SIX minutes late Billy was a
. DIT uffy; e said e was dom all e
could. an If that didn't suit e was
Wlilin' to git off right Were they was
Wen they get to the flats there was a
strong side wind, that crowded the
Ranges o the w'eels ard over agin the
rail; Sd. instead o ketchin' up anything
! e dropped a couple o minutes more.
! The fireman see e want slowin
down none as they approached Jen-
( kins', an 'avin' a proper regard for
Is own bones. e sidles up behind Woods
an asked if e s'posed Jenkins was all
right.
I dunno says Woods. I guess It's.
Amt. been no trouble there in a good
Vile Anyhow, I can't slow down to-
night. I've lost more time now'n I
} can make up So on they vert
J Here Jack paused long enough to re-
! fill his pipe. For once Barney failed to
rise TO his opportunity, SO that, undis-
turbed. the old man proceeded:
I lawn OF o,-t- Of boT
/ station, Coin' extra work-hauln' sec
tons, relievin' crippled engines an
/ shown stalled freights up a heavy
grade there was there. I'd been doublin'
! the division two days with Barnum's
! circus, an had went to bed clean tuck
cred cut. A little after l o'clock the
/ caller reused me out an told me TO
hurry up an get the wreck train.
Watts the NATTER says l, 'alf
dead. an feelin' for my clothes by the
! light of is lantern.
- Dunno, says e; wreck up the road
some eres; hurry UP, they're waitin fer
We
30. aye says I. of course, they're
allus waitin' fer We. but it don't matter
CIV much we ave to wait fer them.
Away e goes. an left me in the dark,
an the first hing l does, vile 'untin'
for match was to walk, with my
stockin' feet right into a puddle of
water, wat 'ad run often is rubber
coat.
wal. 1 got the wreck train after a
VILE an pulled her up to the telegraph
office for orders. Out comes the division
roadsnaster an climbs on the engine.
watts the .troUble?' says l.
% Twenty lights ditched at Jenkins
says he, an Woods can't be found
Il got orders to run extra to Jenkins
fill 1t was still pourin' rain. That
ha ftyanrU-flWp miles T
ever run. There was other fills an
things between US an Jenkins. an it
was on'y about arr the time that we
knOwed were we was The roao.master
said if l didn't get a gait on me we
wouldn't git there fore next summer.
o.. says, l. I didn't know We was in
hurry an before I'd gone another mile
e told me TO slow up a bit, or We
wouldn't never git there at ali.
We picked up twenty lights flag
arr a mile this side o the fill, but e
didn't know nuthin'. E run back.
soon's e felt the jolt, an 'ad been
wondeIin' ever sence. w'ot could be
to the station ahead to report the
wreck. 50 e admit seen nobody.
Il pulled up to the wreck, left the
fireman in charge an went ahead with (
the rest. The rear car was a sleeper.
They found sOInethin' wrong with the
brakes on IL Jest ptlCIe lHGN ltll, 80
they cut the air off it. Wen the engine
pitched into the ole she broke the air
connections, settin' the automatic
brakes On all the ether cars. They was
held like a wise. an the sleeper tele-
scoped over the coach ahead. The coach |
rammed the berths an passengers all |
in a 'eap into the rear end o. the |
sleeper. Twas the worst sight / ever |
seen: broken wood. twisted iron an |
people, all mashed together in a pile.
The conductor and uninjured pas |
sengers 'ad tore out the end o the car |
an pulled out the dead an injured pas /
sengeTS an 'Cused them in a coach. We |
left the doctor with them an went |
ahead
The engine lay on 'er right side, at |
the bottom o the fill. The fireman 'ad /
smothered the fire with mud, so there |
was no danger of 'er BLOWN up. The
tender was crossways o. the engine. an
bottom up. The baggage car stood on
end Just behind. an the smoker was 'arf
way down the bank. Part o. one gang
tore open the side O. the baggage car,
an pulled fifteen or twenty 'eavy
trunks of the body o the baggagemas-
ter 1 allus said that the worst place
to be in a wreck was in the baggage
car. The trunks are piled as Ugh as the
roof sometimes, an wat show as q
man in there Wen cars are flyin' end
over end or rollin' down the bank?
The engine crew as whatever chance
there is to jump, the trainmen amt no
wuss off than the passengers, but bag
gagemasters an express messengers
are too busy to notice every little jolt,
so wen it comes they gently git it.
The rest on us ripped the roof often
the cab, an there. by the light o lam
terms, we saw poor Toms left arm,
stickin' up as stiff as a poker. 1 s'pose
wen e felt 'er goin' from under i'm is
and flew up, naturally, to steady i'm
self.
"All we could see besides was the
back of is cad, is face bein' damned
ard down into the mud. is arm an
cad was swelled up nigh to Dustin, an
was as black as the biler butt. We dug
The mud I'm under i'm an got i'm out
''Some'Ow everybody forgot to notify :
is wife, so the first she knowed on it |
was Wen the boys brought i'm to the
house, wrapped in a dirty OIL canvas ,
engine curtain. !
Wall. they filed up the ole again,
IN Strengthened out the iron, but for {
iome time arter that there was a stand
n order for all engineers an conduc-
ors to get word I'm the station next :
o Jenkins'-either way-that the fill /
vas all right before Droceedin'." I
Shortly after this a new local train !
vas put on. and father got it. He now i
lad a very pleasant job. He got off at a
O'clock in the afternoon, and only ran
i've days a week. He became quite {
was elected town treasurer !
the master mechanic by a :
handsome majority, and began to shine :