The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-01-16
THE STRIKE AT MULEY PASS.
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to the Pass. Being lntunated with Logan,
they brought an exaggerated story Of the
injuries and indignities that were to be
rained on the disaffected at Muley Point,
and counseled extreme measures of resist
ance
Most of the talk was Italian and
Dreamy could not understand it. but he
made out from Braconi' 5 speeches, which
were partly in English, that the young
leader favored running some of the cars
from one of the sidings down on to the
main track and claiming the wheels fast to
the rails He also advised building bar
ricade on each side Of these cars in the cut,
thus bringing Logan to a staudstill, where
they might possibly force him to com
promise settlement before he rot the new
men and the solder, into the works
Dreamy crept back to the shed and re
ported this to me by wire Just before
he called me. Green Elbow. telegraph
station six mile, east Of bridge Number =,
reported Logan -oin. west. There was no
telegraph operator between the Elbow and
Nuley Point. rs Dreamy yrawied nrt Of
the iron she'd after reporting to mo. be
jumped to h,> feet with yen Of rerutr.
4 switch had been opened and -jv ear,
we're passing down the main track. \ clear
half moon threw a silvcry riInnca vn the
mountains. and he saw shat the gaa front
ears. a hox-car carrying twelve thousand
pounds Of dynamite aud a dag-car headed
with structural iron. were uncaupled from
the other, and leaving them hehlni \
man was walking forward on tap ot the
rear cars setting the brake. IT, came 20
the ifauf end If he fourth car almost at
the m,meut Dreamy cried out aud he.
too. yelled With Consideration. some mra
we're walking down the track after the ears.
and a Wild effort was made to catch the
twa ruuavays Dreamy irspei forward.
scrcamiu. Then : dynamite gu chat
from, car Cat,h them Hold them 'ar
Goi- ,ake. men bnt the runaway,
went iovn the steep grade in,a the -l.am
Ike frightened snakes
Dreamy stopped running SOME tTu hna-
irri feei ca,, Of the Telegraph ,hei Lake
great ana fearful .bce, If flame. 'bst
which va. likely to happen dashed 4a7~,
his -oul When sba, iaaa ,huata- sar
Of uitro ]ycyrinc hurled itself into logan
tram. when the steel beam. on 'hs second
car drove through the dynamite ear DO .hg
COLLISION he cr5ei 9a, IN atisE srrar g
the vision The -hry, end 70 the cable
that hung -crss~- th, mighty ehasn 70 the
Nalry wa> nsa . l.zsa sas.I- from h,n
A. be tarp,l about, bl- rye, ;ru upan b..
BeFaud lhe yawnia- eer-e hes az she
black mas i the f1rgs, covered ridge.
uli'c asay, sy the " \ .wi,sh 4 Hzhl
dashed into b. faec. ciraH e .ssos' hing
high and -tran-c. and alHaet IN she tsmr
,La, il took Go draw breath b. had
rlsehol the cable
In the moonlight a SWITCHED fat a-r.s-.
the abvs Ike .5lyeg thread i@inlbns To
the shadows Il lhs -agsb shore to ,1ase-
thing TIA, looked vcrv Ike a strsai az
.,-Saues The wheeled Garner. uith 10.
iasu dangling graphing ,rpa-. hang apen
the cable. small airs rspe. attached Co
she Garner and ziai.ug aP'n wini!AS.ci
dram Ia drawing the l1ai, acr0,> tryu Ihe
opposite shore hang a, b, ssh, Ilc
threa the brake Of the dram. lcaVvi up,
ami esu-h, the graphing baaks in hl,
hand. aoi shut out al,as lhe cable
The ~aa,h end of thg cable "a. she
lower. that the carrier might or-s by b.
awu a,5sh, Wub preamy weiEhl add
81 the Garner fairly arw iianSag there
by has haais above she great abyss. hy -,
a glimpse q stars aud moon whirlins sa.
rrthrr above him. of the Maley baslJus
white far below. aud tcli the rjshI ar
rushin. against hi, face aud beard Wheel,
burrinz IN bis ear. thea suddenly he was
thrown headlous to the earth On the ,aalh
.horc. The carrier bad struck the baas
in T,oss a, the end d the cable
Instantly he lsapci 10 his fees and asaIe
for the summit Of the riee Everything
that be iiI seemei somehow terribly clear
tie knew that Logan train had left
Green Elbos for had goIi bira - hence
when be sho, across Muley Grove on the
cable the trsiuload Of rneu mgsst have been
some four aud a half miles below the y
while the two runaway cars had some uine
miles "a pass over before reaching H. and
he himself a mile Logan wouli come
rather slowly, owing to the grade, while
the car Of dynamite and the car Of iron
must necessarily attain enormous speed in
passing down the mountain Could he
reach the Y before the runaways passed
it? Tha, was the question ,ha, something
in him constantly shouted a. he went up
the slope. across the spine Of the ridge
aud down the other side, springins over
rocks. laundering up hedges jumping down
banks, and over fallen tree trunks, falling
aud struggling up and rushing onward
heeilessly and bliudly through the moon
light gloom.
He seemed to have been many DAYS in
going that fearful mile, and his throat
seemed as a pinhole through which he
could get no breath, and his pulses burst
ing when he caught glimpse Of the bridge
below him. He turned to the right then
and went downward in reckless leaps.
suddenly he came to little precipice aud