El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-05
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1 slow up bit but another 1urch tossed
me against one of the observation win
dows breaking it. Then I knew some
| thing was wrong and this was con
irmed when I pulled the bell cord.
Finally I got into the engine cab.
| Feathers had left his seat. and was
standing with one hand on the reverse
lever the other on the throttle. Just as
| 7 crawled over the tender both cylinder
heads flew off and n cloud of steam told
| that all power had gone and the train
| was beyond control. The fireman was
| craZed with fear and it took 10th of us
to keep him from jumping to certain
death. / tried the hand brake. but it
was broken. so there was nothing to do
but to let her slide and trust to good
luck to reach che level safely.
| I'VE were running at speed of fully
| sixty miles an hour and the private car
was jumping around like chip on the
fsurface of a whirlpool. Feathers was
as cool as a cucumber, seemingly. while
| I.-well. every hair on my head stood
| up like the quilts on a porcupine. 1
asked him if he thought we would get
] through o. X. and he replied that if
we got past the next curve, the sharp
est on the line, by the way, we had
good show. This was just before AL
pine is reached. and never expected to
see the engine hold the rails. When We
struck the curve 1 shut my eyes. L
could feel the engine raise upon her
side and fairly tremble. then settle
back on the rails and fairly leap rs she
made the rest of the rur down the
mountain. After she struck the desert
she ran seven miles before she came to
a halt.
Feathers and / were Oft as soon as
the engine came to a halt and were
standing looking at the wrecked ma
chine when Mr.. Dillon came up. He
was mad clear through. and began
calling Feathers down in vigorous Ian
guage. He threatened to have him
discharged for running recklessly and
came in for dressing too. Finally
Feathers suggested that we take look
at the damage and when Mr.. Dillon
realized the true inwardness of the sit
nation his face grew white as ashes.
hen eFathers gave him a rake overo
Then Feathers gave him n raking over
for insisting on sending a single car
over the mountain with so light an en-
CINE.
We'll. to finish the story, l went
ahead to Lancaster. about six miles
from where we were, and telegraphed
for an engine to pull the crippled train
INTO Tulare. President Dillon never
tried a mountain ride with any such
handicap again. II was an experience
1 have no desire to duplicate
SAVED BY A WOMAN.
Miss Mae Heath is the heroine of AL |
buquerque. She saved a mans life in !
that city Saturday. The incident occur |
red at the Santa Fe depot and the man !
would have been run over and killed !
by an engine had not Miss Heath |
n GOOD him from the track
The man is from Missouri. That eX-
plains why he stood in the center of
the track He had been told a train |
was coming and he had to be sighted. !
While rubbering down the track to see
if the train was coming he failed to J
see an engine coming from the other |
direction.
The engineer on the engine which |
was coming upon him from behind |
blew his whistle and it scared the man |
so that he fell across the track. The |
engine was now nearly upon him. The
engineer reversed his lever. but is was |
too late. The engine could not be stop
ped before it reached the PROSTATE
In an instant he would
be ground to death beneath the big
iron wheels.
But no. he was not yet to die. Miss
Heath saw him, sprang to his side and
Selling his clothing dragged him from
the track just as the engine sped past.
1t was such a narrow escape that the
feet were struck by the
engine, but were pushed from the rail
and not hurt.
There was a large number of wit
nesses to the incident, but Miss Heath
was the only one with the presence
Of mind and GOODNESS to save the mans
life. If that Missourian is single there
Is an excellent prospect for a romance,
in which the heroine saves the life of
her future husband and lives to see
the day on which she wishes she had
let the engine run over him. for he is
from Missouri and must always be
sighted
UNIFORM BOX CARS.
Steps toward the adoption of di
mansions for a standard box car will
be taken at the second annual conven-
ton of the American Railway Engin-
eering and Maintenance of Way asso-
citation to be held in Chicago on March
IL, IS, and IA. 1t is said that the OPP
Grating officials of several of the |
most prominent railroads in the coun-
try will argue for such an adoption.
Under existing conditions, with all |
shapes and sizes of box cars in use, |
full interchange of traffic by the roads |
is not possible, the physical condition |
of some properties not being adapted |
to the handling of certain cars used |
by the big lines.
If the association favors standard |
it will recommend to the |