New-York tribune., 1909-01-31

I e new experience. she induced the good natured
driver an Irshman to disregard the rules and take
| her into the cab.
| The distance from Martes the Puente del Ar
! royo Blanco about twelve miles usually covered
by the express in twenty minutes Before half that
| time had elapsed Dolores Laura had learned how
to open and close the throttle, Of which operation
| she sooner mistress than she drew re-
volver her bosom and SHOT the InsuSpe citing
| engineer in the back head killing him in
| stantIy. She also fired the hack of the peon
| fireman as he leaped in terror from the cab, in
ficting wound from which, with the injuries he
received from striking the earth, he died the next
day in the railroad hospital at Colonia, but net
before he had furnished a description of the
"muchacha dabla' and the particulars of her ac-
tons far he had observed them
Not a whit daunted by this hitch in her plans.
the reSoute young woman let the train run on
until but little over mile from the burn
ing bridge. Here. with Judgment most amazing
in an absolute novice she slowed down To six or
eight miles hour. threw the throttle Wide open
and jumped from the engine before its speed had
begun increase
While these things were taking place parties
the San jose side discovered the fire ami word
na shed from thai office Martes had arrived but
q minute after the III fated train had started A
plucky gauchO endeavOred 10 make his way down
the precipice. ford the stream and Chamber up the
other side and flag the train before reached the
chasm No attempt made TO save the bridge,
as available water not at hand. and the IRE
had been so thoroughly started and had made sucn
headway on the well seasoned timbers that the
middle OF the structure had fallen In before Wofd
reached San Jose
The gallant effort of the gauchO would have been
crowned with success had there been any one on
the engine heed his signals. for in spite of the
exhaustion of hard climb he had covered three
quarters of a mile of the track toward Martes when
the runaway train almost knccked him over and
rushed its DOOM
The railway track just before reaching the bridge
runs along the brink Of the Arroyo Blanco for
quarter OF a mile and for few awful moments
the unfortunate immigrants. who had been celebrat-
ing with mirh and song the last hours of the jour
Eey to their home. vision of their fate
in the serried black stumps Of the burned timbeTs
looming among the granite powders of the river
bottonl like of pallbearers ranged among the
gravestones at a funeral service Then the train
shot out over the edge Of the chasm. and the little
group spectators. huddling in helpless horror on
the further rim. the cars pile one
after the other. the engine, to almost 1nlle-
diatey take fire and begin 20 burn up.
The wreck OF the PGente del Arroyo Bianco. as
they speak of it in Uruguay. takes rank one of
the worst in the annals of railway disasters for
of two hundred passengers hundred and
eighty killed outright OF burned to death. half
survivors died in tie hospital. and every one
OF the remaining ten was MANNED for life The
wreckage burned for days in the bottom of the
rocky gorge and OF all the victims only small
box of charred bcne erds could be collected for
pyramid of Tyrolean granite. imported and erected
in the San Jose cemetery by the friends and reI6-
tives OF the young victims
But for the fact that the wounded fireman re-
Ia lined consciousness long enough tell his part Of
the story cew to the real of the ac-
cident would ever have been discovered. Occurring
II CHANGED TO In the midst OF incipient revolu-
ton. the general impression OF the public at the
time that ii the work OF the insurgents.
In fact, the cabled accounts of the wreck sent to
Europe and the United States attributed il to this
cause. aud the real truth only came To be known
gradually that this impression has never
been eradicated abroad
When the Senorita Dolores Laura arrested
I'm San Jose she was in the company OF her
lover, and the two said TO have been planning
wedding trip TO Brazil Confronted with the am
davit OF the fireman. she made attempt de
NAL. and in the course OF her short imprisonment
confessed full the facts 1 have related them
here. Her last words. uttered just before her
cuton. to reiterate her satisfaction at the
cess OF the blow she had struck for her sisters
In disgrace and sorrow.'' well for herself
Doloress lover pointed out to me in small
town in the lower valley of the Arroyo B1anco.
his appearance is certainly that Of bearing
great grief. The story goes that he
votedy In love with Dolores all the time and that
be ~-' - oerain single all his DAYS In loy-