El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-27

her 70 marry johnson, and at night toss
on sleepless pillows try ing to think out
explanations Of the Aurora Boreslis,
why God does not kill the devil, and
TO figure out the proportion of bread
TO labor In the worlds punishmenss
and awards.
We suffer keenly the "weltschmerz"
az Goethe calls the sorrow and wrong
of things, We object to birds being
slsug for millinery and have
definite notions on second marriages
and infant baptism. But all these
problems slide from our shoulders IS
we go on train. We know that little
OF all these subjs cts that 10 enough to
keep ones mid continually turning
them, but We do not know enough OF
trains to worry about them. We ap-
proach them with feelings as un burde en-
ed ana simple as the Greeks had for all
of life.
A train might be Q good hearted
dragon helping men With their bur
dens, IL might be Vulcan In disguise
working fire and iron Into this great
force to help mortsls for all we know.
We accept It without an effort to pene-
trste its mysteries; that is, 1 do. The
other woman studied schedules indus
triously between meal stations but in
four days she never penetrated in
to the comprehension of them
She was q priessess who learned lit
sic jsrRon OF service TO some Infinite
ana impenetrable mystery of power.
She could not sell after two days. study.
ing and reading up on the right and
down on the left, what time We should
arrive in Washington.
We slipped our packs of our should
ers, the train was responsible for every
thing unsil We came 10 our destination.
All of which explanation of our con-
sciences is told to chow the absolute
and US on the train. 7 went to sleep
again.
The other woman story Is from the
other side OF the car and is entirely
different.
About swo hours later 1 awoke again
With another feeling that the train was
not acting normally, that IL had not
budged since 1 bad awakened before.
Sure enough ous the window there Was
rang for the porter and asked him why
We stay. so long at that telegraph
pole and would he put my window down
rs the wind blew the rain across my
berth. "Gawdamtg hty, "said she porter,
'we're staying here cause she hull
world ts blowed away and the station IL
blowed across the track and We cans
get pas"
l became more interested In the te-.
legraph pole and began remembering
the rocking of the car. 1 peered out
through the rain and saw . building
blown 20 exactly she same angle, roof
and walls were intact but leaning with
The telegraph pole, aud every fence
post parallel TO It.
When daylight came the railway
station was cleared from the track
mr. h0n r.rrll fnnr fr,r AZ.
The wind WAS down TO a cold little
breeze. A mile further along We were
stopped by u telegraph pole across the
TRACK. The trainmen got out and
chopped 1t away. clam bered back in
TO the train, ana the locomotive pulled
on again.
Another mile away there was q giant
tree across our track and We sited
10 the wet, where the reeds and cane
whipped fiat to the earth and telegraph
wires and poles were bound round and
ROUND with the Spanish NOES which
had been blown from the trees and had
caught In the wires. Another Glow half
mile WAS covered and there were two
t -ees across she track, little distarce
more and another telegraph pole
off duty.
We crawled through the little towns
all askew, the trees broken, fronts |
blown from houses, saloons. ana |
churches At the stations while We |
waited for the debris to be cleared /
away, gates, fences, coffin boxes, baby
carriages and chairs, all sorts of
human peraphernalta aOsted In the
But everywhere the darkies
we're grinntog and there was NO tale
II loss Of life.
Trainmen jollied each other about
having slept in rocking chairs and
,ammocks the night before, referring
o the rocking and swinginR of the
rains. The darkies were uttering
heir amazed $50 Gswd" and "Bress
he Lore" and "Gswdamighsy" excla-
nations at the sight of she broken
houses and trees.
At Sugarlands we fret began to
eslize how mighty the storm had been,
where 10 the Dig factory every glass
zane was broken, the roofs ripped of,
he very walls torn apart leaving the
,reAt wheels and boilers and furnaces
exposed to the rains, the CAGE beaten
o the earth, and not sign OF human
ife. IL was rs desoIate as q Rhin g
uin aud looked as thought It had been
for centuries, so entirely was
he life taken out of it. The walls
we're orumbled In some places, and
eft entire in others, iron girders were.
,ent and stripped naked by the winds
Santaria was another desolste spot.
Buildings torn in two, sheds fiattened
'ut, vines and plants crushed to the
arth chimneys all gone. 1t was
he utmost devastation that We had
.ver seen, and we began to hear 'ru-
nors OF lives lost, rumors that made US
.rave and troubled. The trainmen
we're calculating when the wires went
lown, whether 1t was at eleven o'clock
night or later or earlier; IL
vas even said that Galveston Was bad
y hurt. One man bswled out that he
lad heard that all OF Florida and half