Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-05-31

ne was excited. Anywev. be stood out
there with u shovel and Kept the whole
bunch or nee. l thought they would
Kill him. But never tried 10 chase
range steers on foot again.
In the spring we got the ralns-no.
Ike you get now. but cloudbursts. The
section men were gOod fellows. only
sometimes Ne would ct into n storm
miles from section gang and strike a
place where we couldn't see a thing.
Then SIclone would stop tie train.
take bar and get down ahead and
4 sound the roadbed. Many and many a
4 washout he struck that way which
/ would have wrecked our train and
wound up our BAH OF yarn i'm a minute.
: Often aud often Siclone would go into
his division without dry thread ON
him.
e. Those were different days" unused
the grizzled striker. "rhe old boys are
scattered now all over this broad land.
The strike did IL. and you fellows have
the snap. But what l wonder often
and often Is whether Siclone is really
alive or not"
Siclone Clark was one OF the two
cowboys who helped Harvey Reynolds
and Ed Banks save so at Griffin the
hight 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. Slclone
answered. as. Clark"
Whats your full nameT asked
Bucks.
IS. Clark"
But what does stand for?" per
sisted Bucks.
Stands for Cyclone. reckon. Don't
itT' retorted the cowboy, with some
annoyance
1t was not usual In those days on the
plains to press man too closely about
his name. There might be reasons
why it would not be esteemed cour-
teous.
81 reckon II do" replied Bucks, drop
ping into Siclone's grammar. And
without u culver he registered the
new man MS Siclone Clark, and his
checks always read that way. The
name seemed 10 1T. He adopted IL
without any objection, and after every
body came TO know him II fitted so
well that Bucks was believed TO have
second sight when he named the hare
Drained fireman. He could get up n
storm quicker than any man on the
division and. II he felt so disposed,
stop one quicker
In spite of his eccentricitles, which
were many. and his headstrong way OF
doing some things, SIclone Clark was
a good engineer and deserved n 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. lie was one
or those big hearted, violent fellows
who went into II loaded with enthusi-
asm. He had nothing to gain by it
at least. nothing To speak OF. But the
idea that somebody on the East End
needed their help led men like Siclone
In. and they thought IL n cinch that
the company would have 10 take them
all back.
The consequence was that, when we
staggered along without them. men like
Siclone. easily aroused. naturally Of
violent passions and with no self re-
straint, stopped at nothing TO cripple
the service. And they looked on the
men who took their places as entitled
neither TO liberty nor life.
When our new men began coming
from the Reading TO replace the strIk-
ers, every one wondered who would
get Siclone Clark's engine, the 313 ST.
clone had gently sworn to kill the first
man who took out the 3l3, bar no
body.
Whatever others thought or Siclone's
vaporings, they counted for good
deal on the West End. Nobody wanted
trouble with him.
Even Nelghbor. who feared no man,
sort Of let the 313 lie In her stall as
long as possible after the trouble be-
gan.
Nothing was said about Il. Threats
cannot be taken cognizance OF Official
ly. We were bombarded with threats
all the time: they had long since ceased
TO move us. Yet Siclone's engine stay.
ed In the roundhouse
Then. after Foley and McTcrza and
Sinclair, came Fitzpatrick from the
east. McTerza was put on the malls,
White Filler he blew n cylinder head
out OF the 4IG.
Fitzpatrick was waiting to take her
out when she came stumplng In on
one pair OF drivers. for we were using
engines worse than horsehesh then.
But OF course the IlG 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 fred.
1.-THE man that ran this engine swore
he would Kill the man that took her
out" said Neighbor. sort of incidental
ly. as Fitz stood by waiting for her to
steam.
81 suppose that means me-" said
Fitzpatrick.
Il suppose 1t does"
"Whose engine is it,"
"SiclOne Clark's"
EitZDatrick shifted TO fhp ofhar IoY