The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-31

wreck was off the rails and had
plowed through the track into tho
roadbed, Behind e. and almost
crosswisc, the baggage car lay with
trucks almost uppormo3t Against
II and pareenipg at an alarming
angle. the forward day coach had
crashed through ting platform, but
had stopped with tho trucks deep In
the soft new gravel ballast Behind
the first two day cars the rest of the
train was not disturbed to any con-
siderable extent
Busy Night for the Crew,
A number OF the men from the
rear coaches came forward, looked at
the WRECK and talked over the sjtua'
lion, hut within half an hour the
Panhandlers had left the situation in
hands OF the Denver and had gone
buck 10 sleep In the meantime, tho
Denver mon had been busy.
The wrecklng train had been sent
out FROM Childross and two big
ballasting gangs Of Mexican had been
ordered sent 10 tie scene, At $3.50
reljpI2engihc from Amarillo pulled
two coaches back to Goodnight and
before his charges were awake, l., r..
simmons had made arrangements for
their brcakfast,
Busy bay for Goodnight.
Manager Frank White, whose mar
row escape In the wreck probably
made him proyIdent against further
danger made the first visit to the
household where l., h. simmons had
ordered breakfast. His report, which
he made very audible back in the
cars, awakened In the sleeping Pan
handlers desire for breakfast,
which quickly brought out the most
OF them, That began busy day
for Goodnight, over at the residence
which on demand does duty as hotel
about ten people at once could be
accommodated at the table The first
ten to arrive Immediately began en-
Toying the meal, while the hundred
or so other hungry Panhandlers
waited In the next room. Mrs. Hart,
the proprietress. started out with
ham and eggs, as headliner, but when
the fourth relay reached The table
every smoked ham in Goodnight was
gone and the hens had struck. But
Mrs, Harti and her assistants then
began on the bacon supply and kept
bringing on the plates OF hot biscuits
and platters Of crisp bacon. with
steaming cups Of fragrant coffee and
heepings OF country made preserves
the guests made out a breakfast oX-
traordinary.
Visit the BuffalOes. .
After breakfast a number of the
party took passage in a wagon which
thrifty youngster had driven up
for trips to the buffalo herds. In
this way the visitors saw number Of
magnificent specimen OF these orig
inal Panhandlers and also got view
OF the Palo Duro canyon Later in
the morning a crowd OF the Good
night college girls visited the train
and gave with telling effect the
catchy yells OF the buffalo" institu-
ton.
Al IL o'clock the "shoo fly" track
around the wreck had been com
pleted and the engine was able to
get through TO take the party away
from Goodnight But another halt
came when 1t was found on trial that
one of the wrecked cars projected too
far out over the curve 10 allow the
passage Of the train. SO the Panhan-
dlers sat around in the sun while
they watched 200 Mexlcans and the
road men Of the wrecking crew make
the changes in the track. At last
lat 2 o'clock the train successfully
passed and the Panhandle party
Ileaving three ofthe original cars in
the ditch, took new start for
IDollas and the fair.