Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-04-25

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I'nJl hauE that's ala Didnt YOU
Snow Thar Eve biz banks there closed
iN"'r door yesterday Worst panic
100 the United States. That's what I'm
here for and five huskies with me eat.
'ng and sleeping Zoo this car" clntinu.
cd Ferguson lopkIug ahead. You're
not going to tackle that bridge. are
youf'
owe a-c aud right on II there's
ANY of your huskics want to drop 11t
u'"- their chance said Pat Francs
as Sinclair slowed mp FOR his run
Ferguson called his men. The five.
with their rifles. came cautiously ~,
ward
Boys" said Ferguson briefly.
there's a bridge afre ahead These
guys are going TO try 90 run II. rs
not in your contract. that kind Of "a
chance. DO you want 20 get oTF I
stay with the specie. myself You can
do exactly as you please Murray.
what do you suyt' hc asked. address
Ink the leader ~ the force. who appear.
cd 90 weigh about 200
What do I sayT echoed Murray.
with decision. as he looked FOR sof
place 90 alight alongside the track 81
say lll drop ont right here | don't
mind train robbers. but I don't tackle
burning bridge not II ! know It"
and ue jumped or
Wei poItcrs.' asked Ferguson o.
tlc second man coolly. do YOU want {.
.HyF
"MeF' echoed Pcatcrs. looking ahead
az The mass 81 flame leaping upward
Me stay Well. not IN thousand
years You cnn have my gun. Mr. To..
gusou. and send check 20 439 MI
Wnukee avenue. 10 please. Gen.
tlcmen. good day And OF went
relters
And OF went every last man % the
yalorous detectives except one lame
fellow who said be would Just as lief
be- dead as alive anyway and declared
hc would stay with Ferguson and die
rich
Sinclair. thinking he might never get
another chance. was whistling sharply
Tor orders Francis. brcathless with
the news. ran forward.
"Cout How muchl Twelve hun
dr,d thousand Whewr cried Sinclair
Swing up Pat We're on
The Five NIne gathered herself with
spring Even th, engineers heart
lulicd as they lway. lie knew
1.- business aul III. snow that n only
tho rails hadn't hucklci they were per
fr.uy safe. f1r the heavy truss would
stand LOT OF burning before giving
way under swiftly moving train.
Ouly. us they flew nearer. the hlaz"
rolling up Boo dense volume looked h.
rhly threatening After ON. 10 w..
fplhardy. and be- felt ~. but he wa
past the stopping now. and he pull d
,hc chokrr 90 the limit II seemed %, &,
.hr never coycgc steel 30 fast Under
the head size now had the cracking
bridge was less than i've hundred.
four hundred. three hundred. two hun.
lrrd feet. and there was no longer
time % think with stare. Sinc.Ii,
shut on He wanted mo- push or pull CO
the track The McWiliams Spcc.a'
was Just a tremendous arrow. shooting
through "a truss Of fire and half a dozen
spccchlcs- men on either side Of the
liver waiting FOR the catastrophe.
Jerry MacEIroy crouched low und,"
the gauges. Sinclair jumped from his
box aud stood with "A hand on the
throttle aud hand on the air. the
glass crashing around his head Hike
hail 4 blast of fiery air and flying Gin
lcrs burned aud choked him. The en-
glne alive with danger. few like q
great monkey along the wrIthlng steel
So quick. so black. SO hot the blast and
So terrific the leap. she stuck her nose
into clean air before the men in the
cab could rise 10 IL.
There was a heavc In the middle like
the mrch Of seaslck steamer. aud
with II the Five-NIne got her paws ON
cool iron and solid ground, and the
Mattaback aud the blaze, all except %
dozen tongues which licked the cab
and the roof OF the baggage car n min
ute. were behind. George Sinclair
shaking the hot glass out Of his hair,
looked ahead through his frizzlcd eye
lids and gave her fun head for the
western bluffs OF the valley: then look
I'd at his watch.
II was the one hundred ana niue.
tcth milepost just at her nose, and
The dial read 500 10 a second. There
was an hour 70 the good ana seventy.
six miles and a water 10 cover, Mt
they were seyenty-siX of the prett.cst
miles under ballast anywhere, and ,he
Five Nine rcclcd them of like a cyl.n
Ter press. Seventy nine minutes later
sinclair whstled for the Denver yar.s
There was tremendous commouon
among the waiting engines. If there
was one there were fifty big locom'
lives waiting 10 charivari the McNli
dams Special. The wires had told the
story In Denver long before. ANA ar
the Flvc-Nlnc sailed po1derously up
The gridlron every mogul every con
solldatod. every ten wheeler every
hog. every switch bumper, every air
hose screamed an uproarious Welcome
IN Gcorclc Sinclair and the gEyscraper