Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-03-21


there with a shovel and kept the whole
bunch of me. | thought they would
kill him. But | never tried to chase
range steers Oh foot again.
In the spring we got the rains-not
ike you get now, but cloudburSts. The
section men were good fellows. only
sometimes we would get into a storm
miles from a section gang and strike a
place where we couldn't see thing.
Then Siclone would stop the train.
take a bar aud get down ahead and
sound the roadbed. Many and many a
washOut he struck that way which
would have wrecked our train and
wound up our ball Of yarn in a minute.
often and often Siclone would go into
his division without a dry thread on
him.
Those were different days" unused
the grizzled striker The old boys are
scattered now all over this broad land.
The strike did it. and you fellows have
the snap. But what | wonder often
and often IS whether Siclone is really
alive or not"
ClNltut ' AaA was NAAf ~ wv wv
cowboys who helped Harvey Reynolds
and Ed Banks save 30 at Griffin the
night the coal train ran down from
Ogallala. They were both taken into
the service. Siclone after awhile went
to wiping.
When Bucks asked his name, Siclone
answered. - Clark"
fs,fH 80 uGLnH
Bucks
- Clark"
But what does stand for?" per
sisted Bucks.
stands for Cyclone. | reckon. Don't
H." retorted the cowboy. with some
annoyance.
II was not usual in those days on the
plains to press a man too closely about
his name. There might be reasons
why IL would not be esteemed cour-
teouS.
Il reckon 1t do" replied Bucks, drop
ping into Siclones grammar. And
without culver he registered the
new man as Siclone Clark. and his
checks always read that way. The
name seemed 10 NJ. He adopted IL
without any objection. and after every
body came TO know him il fitted so
we'll that Bucks was believed TO have
second sight when he named the hare
Drained fireman. He could get up a
storm quicker than any man on the
division and. if he felt so disposed,
stop one quicker,
In spite of his eccentricities. which
were many. and his headStrong way OF
doing some things. Siclone Clark was
a good engineer and deserved a better
fate than the one that befell him.
though-who can tell?-it may have
been just TO his liking.
The strike was the worst thing that
ever happened to Siclone. He was one
Of those big hearted. violent fellows
who went into il loaded with enthusi-
asm He had nothing 10 gain by it
AT least. nothing 10 speak Of. But the
Idea that somebody on the East End
needed their help led men like Siclone
in and they thought il a cinch that
the company would have to take them
all back
The consequence was that, when We
staggered along without them men Ike
Siclone easily aroused. naturally ~
violent passions and with no self re-
straint. stopped at nothing 10 cripple
the service. And they looked on the
men who took their places as entitled
neither 10 liberty nor life.
When our new men began coming
from the Reading 10 replace the strik-
erS. every one wondered who would
get Slclone Clarks engine, the 313 81
clone had gently sworn 70 kin the first
man who took out the 3l3, bar no
body
Whatever others thought Of Siclone's
vaporlngs. they counted for good
deal on the West End. Nobody wanted
trouble with him.
Even Neighbor. who feared no man,
sort of let the 80 lie in her stall as
long a. possible after the trouble be-
gan.
Nothing was said about il. Threats
cannot he taken cOgniZance Of Official
IL. We were bombarded with threats
all the time: they had long since ceased
10 move us. Yet Siclone's engine stay
ed i'm the roundhouse.
Then. after Foley and McTerza and
Sinclair. came Fitzpatrick from the
east McTerza was put on the mails,
and coming down one day on the
White Filler he blew cylinder head
out Of the 4l6.
Fitzpatrick was waiting 10 take her
out when she came stumping in on
one pair of drivers, for we were using
engines worse than horsefiesh then.
But Of course the 416 was put out.
The only gig left in the house was
the 313
| Imagine Neighbor felt the finger OF
fate in il. The mail had TO go. The
time had come for the 3l3. He order
ed her fired.
The man that ran this engine swore
he would kill the man that took her
out" said Neghbor, sort of Incidental
ly. as Fitz stood by waiting for her to
steam.