The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-04-14

Anstetten Il had picked M Hve yp@z4
girls, three small groups q PSoRAs.
and four unhappy looking co0pseS
I'VE reach Linz in twenty minutes
do we not? They wait there hssssa
minutes for lunch"
TOO little time to eat. and TOO
long to go hungry. However. as Ne
are a little late. the train viii rTco-
ably not make so long a stop,
I'VE might at all events esve TIE
heat turned of"
Pardon me. my dear lady, bit TIE
lever you were about to grasp : TIE
danger signal"
All might have brought Sec,Ss 8
strange result"
Not so dreadful. after al As yoo
see, It would simply be Penalty ~
fifty gulden."
81 hardly know why. but I SlNSyS
think that would like TO give the SO,
nal once. Just to see what would hap
pen.
THAT idea. fancy. occurs to SscSi
of us: to me. at any rate. whenever !
travel by train. II is the same when
cross a bridge, always wo2csr
what would happen II I were to feuar
over: or II | were to say somesAins
unheard of. something wildly sSnsa
tional. when am out in society,
Il have the same feeling precisely
"Then--if you like. Frau HotrS'e'r
Two souls with but 4 single
thought'-let us put II to the test
But think of the Consequences
You would be arrested and trsTr's
oned, and then-imagine the Panic .
our fellow passengers. by the Way
could they tell who had given 'as
signal?"
II rather think the machinery -se
listers that. But. really, this wo0ii
be the best possible opportunity. ans
am curious to the limit. There ]
long stop at Linz. time enough 10
the station master to prefer eharS'
against me and for me TO pSN IN
penalty. for that is all there Is TO II,
will simply tell him that | tnteude'
to turn off the heat. and made q mis-
: take. So" and before the yc0nl
woman could prevent him he hS'
pulled the lever.
A shrill whistle and JERK -
wheels creaking and grooming eErsSt
the grinding pressure of the breaks
another Jerk. and the train StopTSsT
Passengers rushed to the Windows
!, guards ran from carriage to cavrtas'
Then suddenly followed einI'n
crash.
The local had. as usual. been d
layed, and behind it came rushing c
the Orient express, which was On
in Linz few minutes after the sccA
and preceded it from there on II
guards, startled by the danger s's>a
thought only of discovering whe'
help was needed and In the sxcSt
ment and confusion no one had :
membered the danger that threS
ened and no precautions had eet
taken to flag the train.
Owing to the heavy. impenstrSN
fog, and also to the fact thar I,
local had come to stop Just a-eo'
a curve, the engineer of the or,e
express had first seen II when on
a few yards distant. and though
blew his whistle and applied q
n brakes, the express dashed into 4
v train ahead at almost full speed F
I teen dead. more than forty severe
injured!
| The examination disclosed ncthi'
\ definite So much was certain. T.
the danger signal had been given
whom and why remained mystsl
Some thought that perhaps a psSSs
ger had seen the Orient express &C
ing, and had thought thus to avoid
possible collision.
,a Edgar's friends wonder that
r.. once the gayest Of the gay. is now
~ often sad and melancholy "
= know" they say, he was in that 4
ribe railroad accident near Linz. 81
was the only one in the rear carr'a
W to escape with his life. That Is y
u he is always so unwilling now
ue travel by train"