The Lamar register., 1909-10-13
A Railroad Ghost
Explained

1T wasn't my fault, 70 every on,
said. that Hipe Conklin missed hi.
footin' when he was tryin' to board m,
enjine after he had tagged me OF
the midnight express n fell undel
the wheels. losin' his life," said tbs
fat engineer; but l blamed myself
considerable nevertheless. n took II
some to heart. It's customary when
you're tagged to Just slow down n
let the nagman make the tank steI
to git on the enjine n tell you whats
doin' on ahead. This night when Hipe
swung me up because his fast freight
train was stalled a couple Of miles
down the line l eased her up n was
scarcely maxim more'n seven or eight
mile an hour when the tank step came
along to Hipe, but SOME way or 'nuthei
he missed n went under. bein' killed
before I could stop.
Il took a week or so on before
went back on my run again. but
made up my mind that railroadin' at
its best was a serious business n 1t
was up to me to get down to cases
m go back to work or move on down
to the poorhouse.
Hatchery my FIRST trip after the
accident / was quite squeamish comm
down along by Nicholson's curve.
where Hipe had met his death. Just
as we commenced to take the curve
I gritted my teeth n got myself on
edge. As the train commenced to
- ill.,. Ftn~
comm aroun' the curve saw a white
light swingin' horizontally across the
track, which Of course is a signal to
stop, n stop I did. After we had
come to a standstill. however. we
could md NO white light nor anybody
aroun' who might have been swingin'
II.
Its mighty peculiar. mighty Pc
culiar.' says. climbin' back.
"Of course the boys all thought
was seem things. but l declared up
n down that I had seen . white
light bein' swung across the tracks
n I wouldn't have II any other
way. Incidentally such an occurrence
didn't go very far toward smoothin'
out my pent up feelin's.
II wasn't the only man who had
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that they'd seen the same thing.
my next trip down there on the
midnight express Just called TO my
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KNOWN that We would probably
lay to some minutes while the crew
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