Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-01-29

and Tor once he hau no ADVICE or us
enlargement to offer. He had been
ever the road
"Oh. Abe! why do you take that
rum" asked Mrs Leonard, with
blanched face.
Its safer than Sunday school,"
said Abe, remembering when he
lad been caught in the burning
church.
"Gi'me the death run an the all.
night saloon, but keep me away from
mp.meetin' and sody fountains"
Mrs. Leonard wiped the tears from
her tired eyes and Abe went up the
road with his pilot fourteen inches
higher than his tank, and a gage.cock
in the top N his boiler.
The engineer was the least bit ner'
vous the first day, but when his asso.
GATES undertook to poke fun at him
he declared that he had seen worse
things than his Calumet run. The air
lie delightful up there. 5000 or 10000
feet above the sea, and Leonard con.
tinued to go up and down the hill un.
til the middle of the summer without
On accident. The first mishap was the
killing OF whisky" the famous rail.
ioad dog. whose story will be told at
another time.
The Branch had been running so
smoothly that the officials had ceased
to Worry about ii, and the train and
engine crew grew almost careless OF
danger. That's when the Indians
cOme-when nobody's looking. The
train used to go up about 10 o'clock In
the morning and come down in the
middle of the afternoon. One day, in
the latter part of September, It showed
on the Calumet, and when the train
started the rail was wet and slippery,
for the snow was melting as Il fell .
Leonard knew the danger of "a greasy
rail and was proceeding very cautious.
ly. The locomotive at times would
bold herself on sand and help to hold
the train with what is known as the
water break" but presently the sand
save out or the pipes got stopped up
ut the bottom with wet snow, the en-.
sine slipped and lurched and broke
away from the train. OF course, that
parted the air hose and released the
brakes. The conductor and the three
Lrakemen were on top of the train Ia
man to each car and the brake set on
the caboose), but before they could
tighten up the hand-brakes the heavy
Ore-cars hit the floundering locomotive
and sent her down the track like q
sled on a slide. The force of the COLI,
sion, while It gave the engine fear,
full start, helped to check the speed %
the train.
Each of the trainmen carried a club
which they now put into the brake
wheels and clnched them up until all
the wheels were sliding. The whirling
wheels OF the locomotive (whirling
lackardsJ dried the rail so that the
TAIN soon came to a dead stop
The fireman, who had been standing
Ia the gangway, was thrown off by the
force Of the collision, and Leonard was
lett alone with the helpless locomotive
l.: order to appreciate the helplessness
of the engine the reader should under
stand that the power of the water
LEAK does not come from the water
which is flowing from small pipe into
the cylinders, but from the fact that
the engine Is In the back motion, the
action OF the pistons creating vacu
um In the cylinders, and that's what
holds the locomotive back on a steer
hill. The water Is only lubricant to
prevent the cylinders from becoming
heated and injuring the metal. When
there is too much water there can be
no vacuum and no resistance. Instinct
lively the engineer opened the throttle
The boiler was well filled with water
las II must be going down steer
grade, to protect the fues and crown
cheet), the water rushed into the cyl
riders, destroyed the holding power
end the engine ran away. If he jump
cd off on his side, he would go down ia
the bottom Of the rocky gulch. II he
were able to cross over to the fire,
mans slde'he must expect to be slam
!. ed mp against a solid stone wall SO
lac stayed where he was. They had
peeh almost down 10 the bottom OF the
hill when the trouble began, and now
the runaway engine was nearing the
junction with the main line, which ran
at right angles to the branch line along
the banks of the Arkansas river Be
You'd the river the walls OF Browns
Canyon rose abruptly hundreds of feet
End there, Leonard reasoned, the race
must end.
In second he had fashioned to him
self how the engine would look after
she had gone against the rock wall al
full speed.
Now he began to wonder whether
she would hold the rail until they
reached the river, for the pace was
Eaddening. tie recalled. strangely
enough his sufferngs in the hills and