Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-09-19

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cry letter. this came from Ogalalla
Heavy gust caught twelve coal car,
on side track; sent them out ON mair
line OF down the grade"
They were already past jackson
eight miles away, headed east aud run
ming down hill Galatians eyes tnFnSt
like hares TO the train shset FIFTY
nine. going west, was due that minute
to leave Calendar. From Calendar q
Griffin is twenty mikes run Their
Is a station between. but IN those days
90 night operator The rumuay coal
train was then less than thirty miles
west OF Griffin. coming down a forty
mile grade like cannon hail II 50
could be stoaTcd az Calendar. she
could be- laid by in FIVE minutes out Of
the way Of thu cTtEtn destrrtSn
ahead OF her on the main line Gala
han seized the key AMI h-Can caiIiDg
On" He pounded until the call burn
ed into his fingers. II was an age ~
fore Calendar answered. Then Gala
hans order fed
Hold 80 Answer quick
And Calendar answered: Fifty ninc
Just pulling ont Of upper yard Too
late 10 stop her. Wlmt's thu matterr'
Callahan struck the table with HIS
clinched fist looked wildly about him,
then sprang from the chair. ran 10 the
window and threw up the sash. The
NOON shone n bit through the storm OF
sand, but there was not n soul In sight
There were lights I'm the roundhouse o
hundrei yaris across the track. H.
pulhed a revolver every railroad man
out there carried one those days-aud
covering one OF the roundbouse win
agTs. ssga2 eri1g i vas risk
thousand OF his killing a night man
But inere wers q thousand chances to
one that whole traih load q MN ald
women would be k.lsed hsS2e o. thlrt-
pinutPs Il be couldn't get help lie
chose window IN the machinists sec
ton. where he knew no one usually
went at night He poured bullets int
the unlucky easement rs fast as pow
DER could carry them. Reloadins rap
IDLY. he watched the ruundhcJrse door
and. sure enough. almost at once. n,
Wa cautiously open,-i Tr,en he crel
into the air-one. two, three. four. FIVE
dx-and he saw a man start for tn
station on the dead run lie knew. ton
by the tremendous SWEEP Of bis legs
that II was ole Anderson. the nigh,
foreman the man OF all Others b.
wanted
Ole cried the dispatcher. waving
hts arms frantically a. the giant Swede
leapssd ACROSS the track and booked VI
trUm the platform below. go get
Bucks. I've got a runaway train go
Ing against 20 For your NE. Ole
rum
The big fellow was into the wind
with the word Bucks boarded four
blocks away Callahan. slamming
down the window. took the key ami
began calling Rowe. Rowe Is the firs,
station east Of Jackson II was now
the ffrst punt at which the runaway
/ coal train could Ia headd
RIO. R-o,- he rHtthed The operator
must have been sitting ON the wire.
| for he answered az once As fsst as
| Galatians fingers could talk be told
Rove the story and gave him oRiers 20
/ get the night agent who. he kIew.
must be down 90 SCH ttckets for 30
and pile all the ties they could gather
across the track 70 dprail the runaway
train Then he began humping for
kolar. the next station east OF Rowe
aud the second ahead OF the runA ways
He pounded and he pounded. and when
the man at Kolar answered Callahan
co'Ild have sworn be bad been as sep
Just from the way he talked Dos II
seem stranger There are many strange
things about dispatcber's senses
Send your night man 10 west sN tch
hOuse track and open for runaw way
train Set hrakes hard on your entities
IN siding 10 spill runaways n pos. ole
DO anything AMI everything 10 kopp
them from getting by you. Work
quick"
Behind Kolars o. *. came q frantic
call from Rowe 'RunaVays passed
tere Ike a streak Knocked the ties
INTO tcothp-cks. Couhn't bad then. -
Callahan didn't walt 70 hear any
more. He only wiped the sweat from
his face. II seemed forever before
kolar spoke again. Then IL was only
to say, ~Runaways went by here be
fore night man could get 10 switch and
open tt
Would Bucks never Gomez And H
he did come. what on earth could stor
he runaway train now? They wer,
heading into the worst grade on ths
West End. II averages l per cen
rom Kolar to Griffin. and there we ge
DOWN OF the Cheyenne hills with Ionl
reverse curve and drop into the canyon
)r the Black-wOod with a 3 per cen
grade Callahan. almost beside him
sell. thseV open north window {,
ook for Bucks Two men were twin,
Town Main street toward the station
he knew them: II was Ole and Bucks
But Bucks, Never before or sine,
Z. was seen on street OF McCloud sucl
4 hgure as Bucks In his trousers an,
IS slippers, with his nigItshirt free as H.
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