The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-07-07

The lady passenger who, on hear ]
that the engine had broken down, !.
fered the use of a hairpin to reme$
the damage: but few, perhaps, real.
what trffies can i~ncapacitate the strofs
est iron horse that was ever built. w
for instance. would believe that an u .
brella could be the means Of bring..is
a train to a standstil? Yet such !
accident occurred or New York's sts
way as lately as January 3 last.
1t appears that the electric train. !
express, was travelling at a high ri!
OF speed, and was nearing Ninety-si1
street, when ar old gentleman, who h
been nodding in the compartment III
mediately behind the engine, sudderl
changed his seat and tool tfsat dire.
ly behind the motorman's box. Ne
this seat was a switchbox containis
fuses for shutting on and Off the DOW
and %reserving it. Having made hi
self comfortable the old man placed /
umbrell near the box. and when
left the train a few stations Earth
on he forgot to take the property wi
him.
After a time the Inspector pass,
through the carr and opened t.
swttchbox to turn on the head and pla
form lights. and as he did SO the ferru
end of h umbrella, which UP t tn
time had been u%nnoticed. fell into ii
box, and. coming in contact with ii
fuses. caused a short circuit. Immed
ately there was a roar as the fus'
simultaneously blew out, and a blindiI
flash of flame burst from the bo
The inspector and the guard. who. vi
fortunately, happened to be just b
hind. were hurled on to their backs, a
the lights went out, and the train.
course, came to a standstill.
The employees from 157th street, Sc,
ing by the sudden darkness that som
thing was amiss. made their way
the train, n there found the passel
gers wildly excited and the two officia
lying unconscious. Having pacifled Il
passengers and rung up an ambulant
the mechanics proceeded to find out IL
cause of the accident. After a consit
cradle search they found the ferrule
the umbrella damned in the fuses /
the box, which had also destroyed a
the other fuses. and so put the trai
entirely out of order. Ultimately Is WE
dragged to the yards and the damae
remedied. The two victims OF an Of
J mans carelessness, though shocked ar
, painfully burned, were not seriously Ii
jured.
A few months 6 the st. Louis
c%ommodation train was held up by be,
at Edwardsville, and delayed for mo,
than an hour. AT the station sever,
hives were waiting shipment. but the
had not been IN the PLATFORM more tina
ten minutes when the boxes were CO,
cred with thosuands of strange be.
that gathered from all directions, a
tracted by the scent of the honey an
other bees inside.
The train men put on thick glove
and covered their faces with handkel
chiefs. and heaved the boxes on to til
farther trucks, but the bees then lie,
the boxes and swarmed over the Ell
time length of the 2O0-foot platfor1:
while the passengers who had bee
seated In the train fed in dismay. The
a telephone message was sent to tt
shipper of the bees. and when he a,
rived he simply carried the hives to tt
freight house, locked them In. and the
dislodged the stranger bees by NEAR
of a lighted torch. After that the pa,
sengers returned and the train made i
way out of the station an hour afts
schedule time.