The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-02-07


swell surroundings Bucks wouldn't
know them. 1t was Harvey Reynolds
who took them off the other end of the
wirea boy in thousand for that
night and that minute. The instant the
words flashed into the room lie in.
structed the agent, grabbed an ak and
dashed out into the waiting room,
where the sheriff, Ed Banks, sat with
his prisoners, the cowboys.
Ed cried Harvey, there's run
away train from Ogalalla coming down
the line in the wind. IL we can't trap
II here it'll knock SO into kindling
wood Turn the boys loose, Ed, and
save the passenger train. Boys, show
the man and square yourselves right
now. | don't know what you're here
for, but l believe it's to save 40, Win
you hep:"
The three men sprang to their feet.
Ed Ranks slipped the handouts off in
a trlce, "Never mind the rest of It,
Save the passenger train firstw he
roared. Everybody from Ogalalla to
Omaha knew Ed Banks.
(which way? HOwy" cried the cow
boys, In lather of excitement,
Harvey Reynolds. beckonlng as he
ran, rushed out the door and up the
track, his posse Mt his heels, stumbling
into the gale like lunatlcs.
''Smash in the tool house doorr pant
ed Harvey as he neared 1t.
Ed Banks seized the ak from his
hands and took command as naturally
as Dewey.
Pick mp that tie and ram hern' he
cried, pointing to the door. "All to-
gether-now"
Harvey and the, cowboys splintered
the panel in twinkling, and Banks,
with few clean strokes. cut an open
Ing. The cowboys, jumping together,
ran In and began fishing for tools In
the dark, One got hold of wrench;
The other, a pick. Harvey caught up
claw bar, and Banks grabbed a spike
maui In bunch they ran for the
point OF the curve on the house track.
1t lies there close to the verge of
limestone bluff that looms up fifty feet
above the river.
But 1t Is one thing TO order a con-
tact opened and another and very diff
ferent thing to open 1t at in the morn
Ing on Dec. % by men who know no
more about track cutting than about
logarithms, Side by side and shoulder
TO shoulder the man of the law and the
men out OF the law. the rough riders
and the railroad boy, prled and wrench
ed and clawed and struggled with the
steel. While Harvey and Banks claw
ed ut the spikes the cowboys wrestled
with the nuts on the bolts of the fish
plates. II was battle. The nuts
wouldn't twist; the spikes stuck like
piles; sweat covered the assailants.
Harvey went into a frenzy. Boys,
we must work faster!" lie cried, tug
ging at the frosty spikes. But flesh and
blood could do no more.
''There they come-there's the run
away train, DO you hear IL? I'm go
Ing to open the switch anyhow" Har-
yey shouted, starting up the track.
Save yourselves"
Needless OF the warning, Banks
struggled with the plate bolts In Il
silent fury. Suddenly lie sprang to his
feet. "Give me the maui" he cried.
Raising the heavy tool like tack
hammer. he landed heavily on the bolt
nuts once and again, ana they few In
a stream like bullets over the blur.
The taller cowboy, bending close ON
his knees, raised yell. The plates
had given. Sprlnglng TO the other
rail, Banks stripped the bolts even
after the mad train had shot into the
gorge above them. They drove the
pick under the loosened steel, aud
with pry that bent the claw bar and
a yell that reached Harvey, trembling
st the switch. they tore away the
ltubborn contact and pointed the rails
ever the preeIplce.
The shrek OF a locomotive whistle
eut the wind. Looking east, Harvey
had been watching sos headlight.
She was pulling in on the siding.
lie still held the switch open TO send
the runaways into the trap Bucks
had set II the passenger train failed
10 get Into the clear. but there was u
minute yet-a bare sixty seconds and
Harvey had no idea OF dumping $l0.-
300 worth of equipment into the river
unless he had 10.
suddenly up went the safety signals
Iron the east snd, The l0l was cough