Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1905-09-21
SAW BRAKEMANs GHOST.
Engineer Was Scared Until He In
vestigated the Spook on
Car 1882.

he switches m let us in on the
'idin's.
"We always took the sidin' at
Miller's to let one of the Allan
lie flyers go by. Jim would
Jump off the engine, run ahead
n throw the switch, m then
limb on the head milk car as we
pulled by him in the switch.
The fagman on the hind end
would close the switch after we
got in.
"One wet, slippery night Jim
made misstep as we were pull
in by him m fell under the
wheels of his car. | got a fran
tic bunch Of blasts on the signal
whistle from some one who had
seen Jim fall, but before | could
stop the train we had killed the
poor fellow.
eve had two sets of milk
cars on the milk, as the cars
goin' down one night couldn't
be unloaded and be ready for
use the next night. Thus, you
see, we got Jim Stebbins's car
on alternate nights. | remember
the number of it, 1882, very
we'll.
"The second night after jim
was killed | was rollin' 'em
along about so miles an hour,
when | was startled to get a
number of short, sharp blasts on
the whistle signal, the same as l
got when Jim was killed. We
were goin' through a lonely sec
tion of the country m | couldn't
see any earthly reason to stop,
but a signal like that is notifica-
ton to stop at any stage of the
game, so | brought 'em up short.
"The train laid there about
five minutes, the conductor final
ly maxim his appearance m
askin' me what was dom.
" 'Doin'Y says astonished,
| got q signal on the whistle,
just the same as | did the night
Jim was killed
"The conductor suggested
that I'd better pull myself to.
gether. I'dprobabiy been brood
in too much over Stebbins
death, he said m ! ought to for
get it.
81 was in no gilt frame of
mind when | started the train
again. no more'n got 'em go
in fast m dandy when | got
that frantic bunch of blasts on
the. whistle signal again. You
see, that isn't a regular stop
signal, but the man that pulled
the cord the night he saw jim
fall under was SO excited that
he forgot the regular signal, but
just pulled it as fast as he could
81 stopped again m we search,
ed all over the doggone train,
| but could find nothin' that even
looked suspicious.
| "Murphy got my ear before |
started again m said he'd bet a
dollar to q Cassie Chadwicb
creditors share that,it was Jim
stehbin's ghost a-spookin' us.
" There were so many tan
trums last night he said, 'wher
we didn't have that car Al 1862.
" 'Fiddlesticks,' | says, back
to your dream book for yours.
But though | gave him the
laugh | thought I'd watch his
tip.
"When we got to pikin' it at {
fifty mile clip zip, zip, Zip,
went the signal again. This
time | looked at the back cal
Al, 1852, which was next to the
engine. Great guns, if there
wasn't some wavy ghost-likt
thing llutterin' from the from
end of that car.
Snow, say, don't lay mucl
on superstition, but my teetl
were shakin' m my bones were
rattlin' as bad as the skeleton il
a 'Fads m Fanciers' closet wher
grabbed my torch 'n' wen
back to have a look. My fear
were quickly allayed, however
by what | found.
"Some dairy company hat
tackled a broad canvas sign OF
the side of the car II 1852 to adj
vertise their product. One enc
of the sign had blown loose IN