The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-18
FINGER POINTED THE WAY.
HAILKOAD WRECK MYSTERY THAT
BROyGHT 4 WIFE.
A Bachelor Of Forty-hve Tells How 1t Feels
to lie in n Railroad smash-up-hit
Hard In the Collision and Harder In
the Alter Effort to Solve q Nystery.

49, "a. q, p,ur,,d sma.h-Up-Hi
u,rd In tho CoIi,sion and Harder n
m. After Effort To Solve q Mystery
r.A urso,. u,v Uis wonder.
.mm ,.Ia - IooLir, y,,v uhiskerat
nha "a oo,,ossoa 10, ba vas Az vears old
49,. no bad ,,rrd . nI,o -snd I suppose
nara, .n,tI h.,, hoor u,,red I, 1, had no, beer
-. ..I,a,J ..,I,on, a, .bich I n,,,id p,,ed
4. 81 u,.,asa,s ,ro,,,N,, u, p,ov,depce
n.s -, . romantic and so,nevh, t fatalis,ic ten.
,lo,cr -, rind and ,od IN lido, ,h,, , man los,
~ ho,,, no bo to,rd ,,ici,r- all a , sudden
80, ,Lo, ,,a go, -, oona .,o,y had
.nr.,..on ~. ,ra,,,n ~, I ,hou.b, Vas the one
O., ma ,ha,rh ! h.d rs, s.ys,sI xhom I tried
- na,,L 40 n., .r1 80 ,o.,s ban, .,,,p,nv
~ - ,r, s,,I, . o,5yirn a. ,hs con.
,i,don I'm, I u,s dss,,ned 10 IN . bachelors
go IIn,a,o, mo . L,ow. obs, ia going
... 80, "a on. al ho.,1u5 . twain
90, ~ ~. Wisconsin ,orr ube,s I Wv.d 10 60 10
rhicaro mad in,erdsi ooinv an . nigh, TAIN.
81, -, 7 ror, 90 Ava 40 n.s.-I had . mil
Win ,he railroads in thos. d,v.-vhee I usually
lon, I, in my desk n was no, ,b.re And I couldn't
e,d I, h,,b ro,Iow I,ourd 4, ,tIas, In An inside
xas, ro.L., M, thu ,,,i, h,d pone then. and I
wss to,cad IN vai, ,ll nex,dev
~rbe ,,,i, rama nv ee,lv and whom | got into
co.cb ,hara ve,e ma, moro than a do,en neople
q, /, tv,.tli,ds If them women. Nv the time we
had runn n hundred miles. the car was half full
,rd | sup,os. there wer. twenty women In the car,
mos, ~ thom well d,aSsed and CONSIDERABLY above
,bs avcrop. ,rp.nrence Of women in car load
Io,s But did mo-, give them more than A passing
notice. Tor ~ | said. WASH, paving much a,,en-
,ion 10 women unless there was a good and sui
Gcient reason for II, which did no, seem 10 exist
nj that moment Being a married man maybe
Won don't feel TINT way. but | had learned that
after an unmarried man passes the forty line the
inlls and fnlirs and furbelows don't, exert the
.omc influence they did when he didn I have quite
80 much sense There is an influence, Of course,
,ha, benign influence which lasts as long as life
does, butitis more ma,ured and ma teri Al, q result
rather Of Judgment than Of IMPULSE. See
We're Won ever In a railroad accident, NO.
Well. Won don't want 10 bn. No matter how much
life and accident insurance you carry. II gives
Nou a funny Kind of a feeling when /, hrgins
that YOU never want 10 have a second time not
that YOU yearn for II especially the first time.
Everything is going along smoothly enough
and You arn thinking Of business or politics.
NJ, often If religion, or are gazing comfortably
Uut at The passing scenery, when all at onca there
comes a lar. a bouncing over the rails, a swayins
g. AMI ito that makes you sick a, the stomach
nnd gives You a sons, n utter helplessness, and
then a hang. and possibly you know what
happens next and possibly you don't. In my
Case, all | knew was tina, I was in the front end
a thr car ami all tho passengers and looSs Stats.
with a stove ~ two AMI q few lamps wrr' piled
on top u me and | didn't know any more ill |
walked mp some hours later in a farmhouse.
~ forward truck hal given way as We were
skipping along W about thirty miles an hour.
and our car after dragging for fifty feet had struck
an open culvert stood on its end a s,oond and top.
pied over into the ditch. The car was wrecked. but
the special Proyilencs which locke after such
thinCs. as well a. befor, them, brought no graver
injuries than a few broken imbs, some cuts and
bruises AMI q good deal Of shock to everybody.
J was considerably bruised and battered. bu,
no bones yerp broken. and two hours after I re-.
covered consciousness | was able To get up and
80 back 10 the wreck 10 look for a pocketbook
AZ valuable napars I had lost In tha shufie |
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snunl III all flsIl, ana l also tOunn near IL, a lazy y
lille finger rlinred off as neatly as 1, A had boon
''nr ny u NhdIp hhHP' u was a very pump
lICa looking finger, too, and ! don't know what
possessed me, but | h~urnedly slipped II into my
Oucket and went ,vev without mpntinninu my
INA 10 any one. IL was nobodys business any
WAY. for all the FLASHLIGHTS, except two or IN rec
men, VINO nal Eu' on htNne ihNt Sldioh baCk hau
been taken on Ia their destin alton un the train.
which got over the break In a couple Of hours
nf,ar the accident. a. ours as the only car that
~ IT. -,
10 H""'i'' "lu'"'
! reached chicago about twelve hours late
pnd the first thing din was 10 90 10 , druR sturs
,,J hora M H., =, ~ in .,,,,. !, .a,,,,,