Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-07-25
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Every railway telegraph operator
Nlong the Pennsylvania lines east OF
Pittsburg sat up and took notice in n
hurry.
This call means business-important
business, too. answering signals flash
ed over the wires-"all ready"
Then slowly the instruments clicked
off this dispatch to every station:
Train wreckers at Cresson rush OF
ficers earliest possible moment
The railway detectives were rounded
up all along the line. Trains We're soon
taking them to Cresson, where the
wreckers We're reported to be at work.
The entire body OF employees of the
great system at once took up the task
OF catching the miscreants.
1t was u track-walker who made the
discovery. For months past train
wreckers have been busy on the Perm
sylvania railroad, not for loot. but for
vengeance. The management has spent
thousands of dollars in trying to land
them. but with no luck so far.
And the Jealous track-walke n
him to run down the quarry. He rush
ed to the nearest telegraph tower,
breathlessly old his startling news and
in a jiffy the wires were working.
We'll get them this time. sure"
gasped the man. wlnded by his run.
Il saw m of them-a big fellow
and he was pounding away at a ran,
trying to break it,"
Fast as locomotives could pound the
rails came the detectives-a corps OF
100 Of them when all met at Cresson,
near the SUNNI Of the A~lleghanies,
twelve miles from Altoona, Pa. The
still breathless rack walker was there
to guide them right to the spot whore
he had seen them at work. Meanwhile
anxious officials Of the railroad We're
gathered in the ma notices in Phil
adelphia, Pittsburg, Altoona and Har-
risburg, eager for news that the gang
had been captured. 1t was u nerve
racking time.
Il saw him plainly" said the track
walker, as he went along the line with
the detectives. He was down on his
knees pounding a rail with a coupling
pin. He was trying to break 1t and de-
rail the express that's due in about
thirty minutes"
The detectives pressed on cautiously.
Of course they were sufficient in num-
Der to round up and overpower any or
binary gang Of railway wreckers, but
they didn't want their quarry TO get
away hence their caution.
On the Trail.
AS fast as they could the posses hur-
ried w the track of tho Cresson and
Clearfield division. They had gone two
miles, when the track walker warned
them that they We're near the spot.
They hardly needed any warning. Any
II could hear the pounding on the
rails around the curve in the woods
just ahead. 1t was a sharp, metallic
click-plainly some one vas trying to
break a rail and bring death and in
jury to scores of helpless passengers
aboard the express. The echo rang
through the MOUNTAINS.
Tho .1nAncft,yau nv,rNn1InJ ~
They kept pack while one OF their num-
Der slowly wriggled through the bush
of the track ahead. He saw something
that chilled his blood.
Right at the tracks, in plain view,
was a man pounding on the rail with
something that looked like a bar Of
iron. Every n of the detectives could
hear the reverberations OF the steel as
the man kept rapping away. The ex-
press was almost due.
We've got tc work quick" wills
pered the detective who had gone on
ahead. Get ready to surround him.
and IL you see any others Of the gang
don't let them get away"
why don't we take a shot at him
from here" whispered one of the de-
tectives. I'VE a hit him sure"
That's all right" answered their
leader: but he's only one Of the gang
and we want them all"
hat right" muttered the others.
Cautiously the sleuths hemmed in the
man who was trying to wreck the train
so soon to come rushing along the rails
* action. More than one OF