The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26

just stepped HHbD Alie lAlLalAa- VI 10 G.
grass am Southern train. captured TIE
enokin' car, slowed away our buds an
began smokin' ard playiu' cards am
sieepin', just as we had done countless
times before.
cit was q wild night it was late
fn September, am it rained anc blew
an Numbered an lightened some
thin fierce. he an Punch was SKIN
In Pete Brown an Reggie at PIN
ochle, Merritt an Henuessy was
chuckin' dice, an the rest o. the gang
was asleep. / was just goln 10 NET
hundred an take the game am pot
when there came a fierce lOil, an
then a hercer JOLT am then lot o
little jolts. an / knew we were pump
In the ties. am then the cars behind
US got unc0upled. an as am the engine
went tearin' along TO beat the band,
sWayln' from side 60 side, an an the
while the noise under the Wneels was
terrific, an the j0lJs was enough TO
send the cartrucls through the floor
Josh Haywood run out am hollered
70 the engineer. but the storm beat
him back. he yauked thc ben rope,
an we jammed on the brakes, but it
was useless. an finally Pinch Hobbs
an me, old railrOaders, climb over
the tender an into the cab an found
u empty! The throttle was busted,
an we wasn't on no tracks at all
just pIowin' across the prairie!
nat was p rae 10 MAKE your ilt2lt
gray. CricSs an gravel banks an gull
lies an bitches didn't cut no ice with
that engine. AS Reggie remarked, We
stayed not for brake (they was turned
on, as ] said an we stopped not Tor
stone. You bet we didn't. But every
rock we hit we thought it was the
first snort o. Gabreels horn. We just
hung on an waited ike a fe3er does
when he's just dropped a lighted lamp
into a barl o. beuzlne, We was rea-
sonable sure somethin' would happen
soon. an so it did.
ON the gray light o. the early morn
in' I sung out, for I saw water ahead
an though she was swingin' for at az
q fast pace, we all dropped on, grips
an bat bags am all, when the blame
train went spOTtin straight into the
water am was swallowed up-tenQer
smoker, pilot. smOkestacE an whistle
an we was left WatChin' the tracks
where they stopped at the water s
Josh dug the sand out o. his wills
keus-Ee didn't know how TO SIT or
trains-and called the roll We were
an present 1Ie. ketcheT, Reggie an
Dan Delaney. pitchers Pete Brown
first; Johnny Harrison second;
Pinch Hobbs, short, Jim Harrison.
third; an Hennessy, sam Merritt an
Billings helders. We had been TIE
only ones in the smoker an we knew
Just who we had to account for.
'aThe country was desOlate. We
walked briskly for over an hour In a
direction Josh said was SOUTH Wnen
we saw smoke ahead an then sighted
a lot o. little houses an soon we
came up to 'em an DC was a mining
camp where they dig gold, an every
man in town was Chinee or Jap
except One-the boss.
He was a big DiusLerln pirate an
soon na eaar rT- u1nNfn' he
came out with "a gun suekin' out %
each pocket am wanted 10 know VINO
we were, an when we said oall-piay-
ers he cursed a bit an said he thought
we might be a gang he was eXpecJln
10 try am jump BIN, but maybe we
proof. an finally got him to set us a
place where we could snOOze an have
a bite To eat
"He had the Chimes bring US some
bum grub. am then he came in an
questioned us, stTuttin' mp an down to
show his revolyeTs, We We're the
first white men he'd seen in eighteen
months. he said. an he'd be glad 20
see us only he wasn't more'n half sure
we wasn't the aforesaid jumpers. An
81 you was says he I'd blow the
daylight through the bUuchr and he
fOurished his gun am swOre horrible.
Stow that talk says josh. We
don't want your gold. We WOuldu't
take your mine as a gift. We got
better graft. But tell us what league
is this here town in? An where. s
TIE ball grounds
'Oh, yes SAYS the big guy. settin'
down am Crossin' his legs. You fell
lers are bah players The famous Al
falfas. eh2 I never heard o. them.
Can YOU beat the BOstOns an De
troits2
We told him we could, easy.
I thought you'd say that says
he Every bali nine 7 ever saw SAYS
it kin trim another nine before the
game. But kin YOU trim my nine o.
heather Cinnamon Would you like
Co take a fall out o. the great seles-
tyal empire fore you go back to AL
falfat
AT how much fau2' says Josh.
putin out his wallet.
'Ohol Want to bet. ehE says the
boss, puilin' "a bag o. gold dust. Bet
you anything I'm nifty TO 1--WE thou
eve an Clipped I'm am bet him five
hundred. And then he set am. looked
as an over an all of a sudden he
slapped his pant less an says.
u do believe, by all the tuineeS
IN the Delyn Desert o' Doubledee.
that / forgot to mention g.
u " Mention WOt3 says Josh.
" oh. these duu Chinee rules. i for
Got TO mention it 60 you, but these here
heathens o. mime dout do uothin' like
we do. Everything We do is backwards
to them My name Is Ezry Watson,
If I was a Chinee it would be Watson
Ezry. The same way in baseball They
begin scorin' at the ninth innin', an Ga
back 10 the first.
" 'WotinelI kind of game is that?
says Josh. 'S'pose it's "a tie when they
get down 90 the first inniu What do
they do them
why. whatd be your tenth Is the
halfth. and then there's the quarJerth,
an the sixteenth. am So ON. We had
an e1citlu' thirty-secOudth game here
the other Sunday. But that's easy.
Youu get onto that right of. Then.
you see, instead o. Tunuiu' 80 first base
an 50 on round the diamond as we do,
they run 20 third first am then TO sec
end second. am then TO first third an
then back home.
Anything else2' SAYS Josh. lOokin'
as though he wished that engine had
blew up fore she ever struck the Del
win Desert O. DoubIedee.
Only a couple o. minor details.
says watson. Our pitcher stands
where your cetcher does, an the bait
ter has 20 hiJ with the bah instead o.
against il. See the sCheme2 The katch-
er IS RELY an extra fielder. o. course
the helders all field with their backs
10 the plate-thars easy-aut you run
b to bases backwards. guess that's
4 about all,
About all. The cool. calm way that
guy said that near gave me a faintin'