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 rans-not
Ike you get now. but cloudbursts. The
section men were good fellows. only
sometimes we would get into storm
miles from Il section gang and strike Il
place where we couldn't see thing.
Then Siclone would stop the train,
take IA bar aud get down ahead and
sound the roadbed. Many and many Il
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 dry thread Oh
him
Those were different days unused
the griZzled striker. The old boys are
scattered now all over this broad land.
The strike did it, ana you fellows have
the snap. But what wonder often
and often is whether Siclone is really
alive or not.
SiclOue Clark was one of the two
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. Sclone after awhile went
to wiping.
When Bucks asked his name, Siclone
answered. "S. Clark
What's your full name:" asked
Bucks.
-. Clark"
But what does stand for;" per-
sisted Bucks.
stands for Cyclone. reckon. Don't
IT." retortei the cowboy. with some
annoyance.
II was not usual in those days on the
plains to press man too closely about
his name. There might he reasons
why il would not he esteemed cour-
tcou>
Il reckon it do" replied Bucks. drop
ping into Siclone's grammar. And
without culver lie registered the
new man as Siclone Clark. and his
checks always read that way. The
name seemed 10 tit. He adopted it
without any objection. ana after every
body came TO know him it fitted so
we'll that Bucks was believed TO have
second sight when he named the hare
Drained fireman. He could get up Il
storm quicker than any man on the
division and. if he felt so disposed.
stop one quicker,
In spite of his eccentricties. which
were many. ana his headstrong way Of
doing some things. Siclone Clark was
a good engineer and deserved better
fate than the one that befell him,
thouglI-who can tell:-it may have
been just to his liking.
The strike was the worst thing that
eyer happened to Siclone. He was one
of those biz hearted. violent fellows
who went into it 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 it cinch that
the company would have to take them
all back.
The consequence was that. when we
staggered along without them, men like
Siclone. easily aroused, naturally Of
violent passions ana with 10 self re-
straint. stopped Al nothing TO 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 To replace the Stril;-
ei'~. every one wondered who would
get Sicloue Clark's engine the 3l3. ST.
clone had gently sworn To kill the first
man who took out the 3l3. bar no.
body.
Whatever other, thought of Siclone'S
vaporingS. they counted for Il good
deal on the West End Nobody wanted
trouble with him.
Even Neghbor. who feared no man,
sort OF let the 80 lie in her stall as
long H. possible after the trouble be-
gan.
Nothing was said about it, Threats
cannot he taken cognizance Of official
IT, We we're bombarded with threats
all the time: they had long since ceased
To move US. Yet Siclone's engine stay
pd in 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 n cylinder head
out of the 4l6.
Fitzpatrick was waiting to take her
out when she came stunping in on
one pair of drivers. for we were using
engines worse than horseilesh then.
But of course the 416 was put out.
The only gig left in the house was
the 1913.
imagine Neighbor felt the finger OF
fate in it. The mail had 10 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 Neighbor, sort of incidental
". as Fitz stood by waiting for her to