The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., SEPTEMBER 10, 1908.

home happy. Pullmans-t and sunny
in the mountanscame nothing but Brooklyn
ye To describe might invdious but the
grade where No then climbing would alone make the
fortune OF an ordinary eastern scenic line
The Overland freight No. S. eastbound with long train
of tea pulling of Totec station No. stuck its
head into the foot of the Moose.
At Totec, day run, we take mans breath
give him large his bit of the pretiest
engineering anywhere on earth
Toltec lies in the Powder range great
called the Moose because time engineer slips
the head of his train ntoit his breath until
he gets it
The Totec Moose is engineering magnificent; it
rairoading without wordsunless one counts the wicked
words Eagle Pass station Of Moose, looks
unspeakabe directly Toltec
seven miles that curve, without
perquisites either
Every train that the is double headed both
ways and nowhis beforethey ada to keep tranmen
off the relief scrap, pusher.
That day there pusher behind Overland
freight and No. Us they pulled of Toec to
climb the loop could plainly above and the
stormng struggling choking engines they
neared with their load summit o Eagle
The wind bore down to them breaking
Ing roaring cut of the quiven
in the door of the old John Parker
the mead brakeman beside him. looking together at the
freight with the absorbed air
who watch the loaded bucket the top
thin clear mountain air they could almost
engine They see
freight conductor
as they looked they his train break in behind him.
and the end parting like TAIL
headway and roll back the HILL hind end
darting from the caboose the ladder like
and began setting brakes The passenger the
brahe-shoes clutch in flame the slipping trucks but
the drawbars couldn't stand big
drawhead like again
broke in two this TING behind the brakeman and the
caboose with five $1,000 pound shot down the grades
and No. climbing Toltec
A voley Of danger signals curled white from the
freight sprang
cord but it needless his engineers very
threw double chambers of the wheels.
1t caught off the whist tables, baked
potatoes into the bosos asonshed dners it spoiled
point pretty tedum stories
it royserers staggered
to the hearts and chill brains it
stop, severe one-No against
frightened could vestbues
gines working in the back motion and No. 2
scuttling the Moose from impending dis
baggage door,
with their glued the the Moose
feet that their fight could
backwards the for
mile they could crowd into it's wheels the
making Pat Francis frst-saw
they had covered half distance They
could make the hill of the Moose wasn't in
beat gravity. Moreover,
might elevation, go gulf.
thing to down hill and another thing fall down
hill. The tea train was falling down hill.
turned bareheaded
him his watch and his money
What do you mean? John Parker choked the words
out, because he knew what he meant
this stuff in Bucks, John, I it.
It's all company money
brakeman greenish dazed steaded himself with
hand the amb the baggageman stared wldeyed thru
drop Toltec switch may be 1 can open
it to catch that sringweH make this John
in Gods world
might as jump the canon; you'll
never switch-key Pat-we're crowding
minute
Francis looked at him steadily he pulled his ring
switch key off the bunch
They're crowding g. John
The slued under them. John Parker tore off his
specacles.
pat I'm lighter than you-give me the switch
key he cried gripping the conductors shoulder
lowed him out the door to the platform.
NO
'Your children younger mine Give me
key,
'.This is my train John Ask Bucks look after my
Insurance."
With these words Francis tore the old mans hand
roughly away. When minute is mile, action is quick.
seconds meant the Toltec switch
conductor already from the bottom of
gage
Francis was built like gorilla He swung with his
long and from the Keeling rhythm,
dangling the suck cinders
lightly against the Then with the switch
key in his mouth with Parers thin hair streaming
him, whirlwind sucking wheels
drivers racing him hundred passengers
staring below him, Pat Francis let
in the sleepers, only half understanding,
burst of akali the track