The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-28

for about week when the big accident happened in
town The boilers in the cotton iIl blew up and
killed score Of girls and injured hundreds more.
Miles was at the other end of the division and they
hurried him ont TO take carload of doctors down.
They were<giyen the right OF the road and Miles
tested the speed of that m0gul-pToving that pony
truck would stay the track at fifty miles an hour
which asiot of US franks had disputed.
A few miles out there is coang station. and at
that time they were building the chutes One of the
iroa drop aprons fell Just as Miles with the mogul
drew up to it. 1t smashed the headlight dented the
stack ripped up the casing of the sand box and dome
slit in the Jacket the length Of the boiler tore
off the cab struck the end Of the first car and then
tore itself loose and fell to the ground.
The throttle was knocked wide open and the mogul
was flying. Miles was thrown down, his head cut
open by splinter, and his foot pretty badly hurt
He picked himself up instantly and took look back
he closed the throttle. Everything was coming"
all right; he remembered the emergency of the case
and opened the throttle again. A hasty inspection
showed the engine in condition 20 run-she only
looked crippled Miles had 10 stand up. His foot felt
numb and weak so he rested his weight the ohter
loot lie was afraid he would fall of if he became
weak and he had Dennis take OF the bell cord and tie
it around his waist throwing loop over the reverse
lever, as measure of safety. The right side of the
cab and all the roof were gone. so that Miles was in
plain sight. The cut in his scalp bled profusely and
in trying to wipe the blood from his eyes he merely
spread Il all over himself, that he looked as if he
had been half murdered.
Il this apparition of wreck ruin and concen-
trated energy that Marie Venot saw flash past her
fathers door Fastening the relief of the victims
of a disaster, forty miles away
Her father came home for his dinner in a few min
from his little Office in the depot To his daugh-
ters eager inquiry he said there had been some big
accident in town and the extra was carrying doc
tors from up the road But what was the matter
with the engine he didn't know it the 100 so it
was old man Alexander, he said-and that's the near
est ever came TO being hero.
Marie knew who running the 10 pretty well:
after dinner she went to the telegraph Office for
information. and there she learned that the special
had struck the coal chute at Coalition and that
the engineer was hurt 1t was time she ran down to
see Mrs Alexander, she said, and that afternoons
regular delivered her in town-
Like all other Tsiroaders not better EMPLOYED |
dropped around to the depot train time to talk with
the boys and keep track of things in general The
regular was late, but Miles DistOn was coming with
the special and came while were talking about It.
Miles didn't realize how badly he was hurt until he
stopped the mogul in front of the general Office So
long as the excitement of the was on so long as
he the absolute necessity of doing his whole duty
until the desired end was accomplished so long as
he had reputation 10 protect his viii power subor-
up to the engine found Miles hanging to the
reverse lever by his safety cord in dead faint We
carried him into the depot and of the doctors adj
ministered some restorative Then we got hack and
started him and the doctor for my house but Miles
came 10 himself and insisted going his boarding
house and nowhere else.
Mrs Bailey, Miles boarding house keeper had
been trained nurse but had few years before in
vested in rather disappointing matrimonial venture
She was one of the best nurses and one of the